Video: Adding Mid & Dark Tones for a Still Life Drawing

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How to distinguish areas in your still life that require you to add mid and dark tones; learn tips, tricks and more for creating great still life drawings in this free online art lesson on video taught by David A. Clemen.

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Okay now that we've got some light tones and we've got some really light mid tones and then in here we've got some mid tones. In certain areas where there's no light getting to it at all it starts to get to become a mid tone. So all you've got to do is pick out certain areas that you see where the light is being blocked. Because this is the strongest one, there's a light over top and that's giving shadow as well. But for what I'm talking about right now I'm just trying to focus on these mid tones. And even under here is kind of a darker mid tone. So I'm just going to come in. And when you start to do these mid tones it starts to give whatever you're working on a lot more dimension. You start to feel it a little bit more. That it has shape and it's not just a flat drawing. And that's the thing about this coquille board is that you can really start to get your drawing to pop off the paper. Just with a few simple techniques. So all of a sudden this bottle?s starts to get a little bit better shape. And even under where the foot of the seal is, just by doing some darker mid tones. So these are the darker mid tones.

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Adding Mid & Dark Tones for a Still Life Drawing

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