Dark to Light --- Complete Life Drawing book

DRAWING FROM DARK TO LIGHT

Exercise: Subtracting highlights

Objectives: Analyzing form through light and shadow; Creating drama by high contrast

In this drawing method you start with a dark value on your paper and work with an eraser to create highlights and draw the model's pose

This is a good exercise and teaches you to see in a different way

Start by putting a dark value on the entire paper. Look at the highlights on the model and draw them with the eraser.