Charcoal Challenge

The next unit we got into was drawing with charcoal and chalk and using different materials to create different types of shading and texture. Mr. Angelis taught the first couple lessons to introduce the class to the new materials, the students started on some cylindrical drawing to practice shading. After they got in some practice, I came in early one day to make a sculpture out of cylinders for the class. I did that by suspending string and tying different sizes of cylinders in the middle of the classroom.

I did a couple demos to explain the challenge that came with drawing this sculpture. I had cut out pieces of paper to be shaped rather irregularly but I asked the students to disregard the negative space and continue their drawings as if there were no holes in the paper.

Then we let the students work independently on their drawings....

I think they enjoyed it