CHAPTER 1
UNDERSTANDING VALUES
WITH KEN GOLDMAN
This is not just a “how-to” chapter; it is a “how-to-see-and-do” chapter. When seeing and drawing shapes and their values—lightness or darkness—you are not drawing “things.” Rather, you are creating areas of value as various shapes; those shapes become recognizable only when they are drawn accurately in combination with other shapes. This is an effective, time-tested approach, but its application requires some rethinking of childhood drawing preconceptions, as well as discipline in seeing and drawing differently. The exercises in this chapter will take you through a step-by-step process of seeing shapes, identifying their light and dark values, and fitting the pieces together to form recognizable ...
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