Lesson 1: Line Creates Value

How can you use line to create various values and the illusion of three-dimensional form?

How can variation, space, and repetition affect the perceived lightness or darkness of a design?

Hatching: Creating value using series of parallel lines.

Cross Hatching: Layering parallel lines at angles to create darker values and texture.

Stipple: Using patterns of dots to create value; closer dots create darker areas.

Scribble: Using loose, multi-directional overlapping marks to build mass and shadow.

VA:CR:HS:1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

VA:PR:HS:4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

VA:RE:HS:7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

VA:RE:HS:9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesis of Information: Much like SAT Reading requires combining details to understand a passage, stippling requires "synthesizing" individual marks to create a unified image.

Data Interpretation: Creating a value scale with lines mirrors the ability to interpret gradients and trends in SAT Math scatter plots.

Precision and Discipline: The meticulous nature of cross-hatching builds the endurance needed for lengthy SBA Performance Tasks.

Students will use a sketchbook to practice hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, and scribbling.

Students will apply these techniques to a finished drawing that demonstrates a full range of value.

Students will respond and reflect through critique.

Progress assessed through pre/post tests and class rubrics.

DOK Level: Level 2 (Skill/Concept).

Currency and Banknote Design: Analyzing how high-contrast line work and "engraving" styles are used globally to prevent counterfeiting.

Traditional Woodblock Printing: Exploring Japanese Ukiyo-e or European relief prints where line density is the only way to create shadow.

Medical and Scientific Sketching: Identifying how pen-and-ink illustrators use stippling to show texture in biological specimens.

Value can only be created using shading techniques in pencil.
Small marks like dots or short lines are "accidents" rather than intentional design tools.

Lesson delivery: Visual exemplars, written instructions, and live demonstrations via Google Classroom.

Check work in progress and provide immediate, individualized feedback.

Provide "Value Scale" templates to help students gauge density levels.

What skills will be assessed?

The ability to use line density to define value and form.

Demonstrated improvement in mark-making control.

What specific aspects of task will be assessed?

Individual project evaluation based on the successful transition from light to dark values.

Critique assessed through the Fine Arts Critique Rubric.

• Visual Exemplars of master etchings and pen drawings.

• Demonstration tools: Document camera, SMART Board, Google Classroom.

• Physical Materials: Drawing paper, fine-point pens , pencils, and ink