Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Developing shading skills and drawing techniques to create botanical-inspired digital drawings.
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Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use their observation skills to describe specific shapes, textures or patterns in objects.
- Shade with a reasonable degree of accuracy and skill following the four shading rules.
- Use mark marking to show texture and details.
- Use simple shapes to sketch the basis of their drawing before using lines and marks to add detail and texture.
- Apply shading skills to show areas of light and dark (tone).
- Apply line, shape and tone with digital tools.
- Save and present digital artwork.
- Use materials to create a design inspired by The Sun.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: See like an artist
Lesson 2: Shading
Lesson 3: Take a closer look
Lesson 4: Imagination in bloom
Lesson 5: Paper to pixels
Optional lesson
Optional: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Resources
Unit resources
Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y3: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Developing drawing skills'.
Art and design
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Developing drawing skills’.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes.
Science: Light, Plants.