Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
Exploring how artists use tone and texture, and applying these techniques in observational drawings.
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Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Experiment with a range of materials to create marks and tones.
- Use different pressures and control to make different marks.
- Describe the texture of objects.
- Identify how artists use tone.
- Control shading to show tone.
- Sketch simple shapes lightly so that changes can be made.
- Refine a drawing by building up the outline of an object.
- Pose to show a clear expression and head position to create a photograph.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Exploring line and shape
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Exploring drawing materials
Lesson 2: Understanding and creating texture
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Lesson 3: Exploring tonal shading
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To develop tonal shading skills using control and pressure.
Lesson 4: Sketching and refining a drawing
Lesson 5: Creating an observational drawing
Optional lesson
Optional: Every picture tells a story
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Key knowledge
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Unit resources
Art and design
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Tone and texture’.
Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y2: Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Understanding tone and texture'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
None.