Drawing Skills & Techniques Practice Worksheets
A range of drawing skill worksheets designed to improve understanding of art elements: Tone, Line, Shape & Form while improving control of art mediums like pencil, pastel, pen & even charcoal. Suitable as a standalone lesson or as an introduction warm up. These skills are essential for students to grasp the basics before launching into more challenging activities like realistic portrait or landscape drawing.
Included in this pack:
- Simple Lesson plan is included to provide a basic overview of the pack.
- Gradient & Tone to practice shading from light to dark in 2h-2b pencils
- Popular techniques like stippling (dots, pointillism) hatching & cross hatching.
- Mark making with less common techniques like circles, random hatching &zig zags.
- Shape templates to create form & depth in simple shapes.
Suitable with: Graphite (greylead) pencil, charcoal pencils & charcoal sticks if printed in larger format. Many of the techniques also work well with fine tip marker (or fineliner)
To get the most benefit from this activity, it is recommended after completing one or more worksheets, students create a drawing of a chosen theme while applying a variety of the techniques practiced. These techniques can work with portraits, landscapes or imaginative drawings. They also are excellent activities to be left for substitute teachers & fit very well with an existing art program. Also a great bridge for students who are not yet confident with pencil drawing techniques to build more foundational skills.
