1. Pointillism

2. What is Pointillism?
• Using tiny dots to create
images
• The actual blending of the
dots creates value
• Commonly used by Georges
Seurat and Paul Signac
George Seruat
“Self Portrait”

3. POINTILLISM IN OUR
CULTURE
• Cell phones
• Television
• News paper
• Computers

4. PROJECT
• For your final project you will be creating a
pointillist portrait of an animal
• Your personality must relate to this animal
• You like music?
– Bird
• You are loyal friend?
– Dog
• You are protective?
– Bear
• You are playful?
– Kitten

5. PROJECT OBJECTIVES

6. CONTOUR
DICTIONARY TERM
• the outline of a figure, body or mass
ART & CONTOUR
• Is the outline of shapes
• These outlines tell us where shadow is located
• It is essential to use contour to block shadow
shapes into your pointillism portrait

7. SHADOW

8. FIRST WE’LL BEGIN WITH A
CONTOUR DRAWING
• We will do a contour by outlining shadow
shapes

9. WE WILL THEN IDENTIFY
CAST SHADOW
• Are created when an object
stands in the WAY of the
light
-However all cast shadows BEGIN
with a HARD edge at the BASE of
the object
-- As the EDGE moves FARTHER
out from the base it become
MORE FEATHERED & LIGHT
As a cast shadow moves FARTHER
from an object it becomes
LIGHTER

10. LOCATE CAST SHADOW

11. IDENTIFICATION OF CAST SHADOW

12. BEGIN BLOCKING IN CAST SHADOW
• Treat the shape as a whole, do not focus on one
area at a time.
• Here I am moving back and forth between that
“HARD EDGE” and “FEATHERED EDGE”

13. BLOCKING IN VALUE FOR CAST SHADOWS
#1 #2
• DARKER SHADES: have MORE dots and LESS
space
• LIGHTER SHADES: have LESS dots and MORE
SPACE between the dots

14. BLOCKING IN CAST SHADOW
#3 #4
• The shadow gets DARKER as it nears the BASE
of the object
• The shadow gets LIGHTER as it moves away
from the base

15. THE FORM
• It is CRITICAL that you know what form is.
• CAST SHADOWS:are created when a
FORM (object) blocks light
• CAST SHADOWS: are the reflection of a
form onto a surface when light is not present
FORM: Is the object
being drawn.
The object or form
being drawn is the ball

16. THE CORE OF A SHADOW
• The darkest part of the form
shadow
• Is the place where the light
meets the shadow on the form
• It is usually followed by
reflected light
• It is the edge between light and
dark values on the form
THIS IS NOT A CORE SHADOW
THIS IS THE PART OF A CAST
SHADOW

17. LOCATE FORMS

18. FORMS
• Orange
• Apple
• Bowl
• Glass
• Table
• Paper Plane
• Stapler

19. LOCATE CORE SHADOWS

20. HIGHLIGHTS
• Are the brightest
areas on the form
• Is where light is
directly hitting the
object

21. HIGHLIGHTS
• Adds a crispness to the drawing
• The subtle grays AROUND a white area will make the highlight POP
more
• This is where the light is casting directly upon object

22. HIGHLIGHTS

23. REFLECTED LIGHT
REFLECTED LIGHT: Is when light bounces off of
something and reflects back onto the object

24. LOCATE REFLECTED LIGHT

25. LOCATING REFLECTED LIGHT

26. FORM SHADOW “FILLER”
• Is the rest of the shadow around the form
• Comes into two different parts
– LIGHTER HALF TONES
– DARKER HALF TONES

27. FORM SHADOW: LIGHTER
TONES
• Lighter Toned Shadows: Consists of
shadows that are CLOSER to the light

28. FORM SHADOW: DARKER
• Medium Toned Shadows: consists of shadows that
are further from the light and are closer to the core
shadow