ART VALUES PRINCIPLES & ELEMENTS IN DESIGN COMPOSITION : Use Tones & Values to Create Interest in Drawings

Become Skilled at Value Drawing

Becoming skilled in Value Drawing is the secret to making your drawings POP with realism.

Color, Value and Hue

Color is one of the most powerful of elements. It has tremendous expressive qualities. Understanding the uses of color is crucial to effective composition in design and the fine arts.

Drawing Value - Shading Tonal Values with Graphite Pencil : Using Value Instead of Line

The aim of realist value drawing is to show the light and shadow and surface tones, creating a three-dimensional illusion. Outlines only define visible edges and don't tell us anything about light and dark. Linear drawing and value drawing are two different 'systems' of representation. Mixing up the two can be confusing, if realistic drawing is your aim.

Design Element : Values & Tones

The element of value or tone is, in its simplest form, the juxtaposition of light and dark. It is defined as the intensity of lightness or darkness in anything that is visible.

Drawing Exercise : Newspaper Shading to Practice Matching Tones

A fun tonal drawing exercise for adults and kids. To practice shading by matching tones to those on the newspaper image, avoiding linear drawing and concentrating on tone.

Drawing from Line to Life : Tone and Value in our Drawings

Pencil drawing using only tone (or value) and no line. Includes many ways to apply tone - zigzag, hatching, cross-hatching, circular, powdered graphite, etc - overcoming problems, using contrasts, working dark to light, and more...

Elements of Design : Value & Color

Value refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a certain area. Value can be used for emphasis. Variations in value are used to create a focal point for the design of a picture. A light figure on a dark background will be immediately recognized as the center of attention, similarly for a dark figure on a mostly white background. Gradations of value are also used to create the illusion of depth. Areas of light and dark can give a three-dimensional impression, such as when shading areas of a person's face.

How to Identify Color Value

Whether you are a representational or abstract painter, you already know that the ability to paint the correct color value is vital to the success of your art. A painting that 'works' or just 'looks right' always has strong tonal relationships, or at least harmonious ones.

How to Shade, Render, Paint Values Drawing Lesson, White Cubes Exercise for Artist. Part 1 of 3

How to shade, render, tone, paint values drawing lesson, white cubes gray scale exercise for artist. It is part one of the three cubes exercise. They are one white cube, one black one, and one a mid grey.

Mini Lesson : Using Values in Design

To be successful as a designer it is necessary to be able to use value effectively. Value provides the maximum contrast available and is useful for controlling visibility and hence controlling attention.

Painting Color Class: Tones or Values

What is Tone and Why is it Important to Painting, Perhaps Even More than Color? It's important to realize that tones are relative, that how dark or light they seem depends on what's going on around them. A tone that's obviously light in one context may seem darker in another if it's surrounded by even lighter tones.

Painting Color Class: Tones or Values

Practise Tone by Painting a Gray Scale or Value Scale

Principles of Design: Value

Value, also sometimes referred to as tone, is the relative lightness and darkness of an object. It has nothing to do with the price of the design! As soon as you place an object on your blank canvas (whether for print or web) that element has value.

The Importance of Value & Tone in Painting

Little did I know that my drawing background would give me a good foundation in tone, otherwise known as value. Value is how light or dark that color is.

Value Drawing Exercise

Focus on using value instead of line, and build an atmospheric drawing using values beginning with a base of mid-value shading, erasing lights and adding darks.