Natural Form Tone Drawings 1

This resource is designed to teach students how to use TONE to demonstrate FORM in their drawings, as well as practise their observed drawing skills. This sheet mostly focuses on the Formal Elements LINE, TONE, SHAPE, FORM and TEXTURE in a series of natural form drawings. It can be used for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students. On the sheet there is the learning objective, a description of what TONE is, and the task instructions. There is a tone bar starter task for students to practise using their varied tonal shading in pencil, before beginning the main tasks. The main tasks have reference pictures – apple, leaf and mushroom, and space for students to draw them on to. This activity sheet is designed to engage students in ‘looking and seeing’, particularly in terms of proportion, and in using the following Formal Elements of art:

• LINE
• TONE
• SHAPE
• FORM
• TEXTURE

This resource is two PDF files; one with a ghost outline template to support the less able/less confident students, and one without for the more able/gifted and talented students.

This sheet has been designed to be used within a scheme of work, but is also suitable for a one off lesson (or couple of lessons), and/or cover session(s). It takes approximately two to three lessons to complete, if being produced to a high standard. I usually print this resource on A3 cartridge paper and my students work directly onto the sheet. Their sheets are then stored in an A3 portfolio with integrated clear wallets to record and store their project journey in a professional folder.

I have created other natural form drawing sheets and other drawing based resources of varying subject matter, which you may wish to look at in my shop.