Exercise 3 - Cast Shadows
Assignment
You will draw a box, cone, cylinder, and sphere in perspective with cast shadows. This exercise is about perspective, value, and cast shadows. Be sure to make your perspectives accurate and use the entire range of values.
Craft
Make your lines straight, sharp crisp and clean. Clean up any pencil marks, smudges, and fingerprints. Protect your drawings by placing them in a folder. You will need them for critique week in the spring.
Materials
Drawing paper and drawing pencils (4H to 8B)
Deliverables
Four 8.5 by 11 inch Drawings: a cube, cylinder, cone, and sphere with shadows. Include a value scale on each drawing.
Value - 50pts
Points are earned by accurate perspective, high level of detail, wide value range, high level of craft, and following instructions including meeting all of the specifications in the project brief (this page).
Demo (DOWNLOAD DEMO FILE)
Rendered Cube
Rendered Cone
Rendered Cylinder
Rendered Sphere
Student Examples
Cube - Ivan Castilleja
Cone - Ivan Castilleja
Cylinder - Ivan Castilleja
Sphere - Ivan Castilleja
Cube - Lizzy Hancock
Cone - Lizzy Hancock
Cylinder - Lizzy Hancock
Sphere - Lizzy Hancock
Cube - Vivian Nguyen
Cone - Vivian Nguyen
Cylinder - Vivian Nguyen
