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: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
Key knowledge
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- A selection of drawing materials such as colouring pencils, watercolour pencils, markers, oil pastels, and fine-liner pens. ×30
- Drawing paper ×30
- Hb pencils ×30
- Selection of plants bulbs and seeds ×15
- A selection of Colourful wool
- Modelling dough ×30
- Devices with access to the internet ×15
The equipment below is optional
- Magnifying glasses ×30
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- A selection of drawing materials such as colouring pencils, watercolour pencils, markers, oil pastels, and fine-liner pens. ×30
- Drawing paper ×30
- Hb pencils ×30
- Selection of plants bulbs and seeds ×15
- A selection of Colourful wool
- Modelling dough ×30
- Devices with access to the internet ×15
The equipment below is optional
- Magnifying glasses ×30
Related content
Unit resources
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y3: Drawing: Developing drawing skills
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Developing drawing skills'.
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.