Vocabulary activity
Complete the sentences
1. A(n) is a cylinder with conical ends made of rolled paper or other soft material, used for softening or blending pencil or crayon marks.
2. If you want to obtain real blacks, yields much better results than graphite.
3. Graphite reflects light, so if you use that medium you can’t really avoid , you just have to put up with the glare.
4. This portrait is just perfect, absolutely , I can’t really find any fault in it.
5. The shading technique consists in sets of diagonal lines (i.e. sets of diagonal lines that supersede one another).
6. One way to reduce glare is to apply a(n) on your drawing when you finish. Spraying your work with this kind of product is also helpful to stabilize the pigment when you use pastels.
7. Although I tend to prefer loose crosshatching, I’ve realized that crosshatching is great for rendering animal fur.
8. Scribble some pastel and then, using a cotton swab, (i.e. smudge, blend) the pigment onto the paper.
9. Circulism consists in drawing very tiny circles that overlap and
(i.e. twist together)
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