Explore how great artists of the past, like Caravaggio and da Vinci, used light and shadow to make their work more realistic, to draw focus, and to paint a mood. Learn about chiaroscuro, the classic technique for achieving bold contrasts, and find out how to make your drawings more balanced, with shadow mapping and compositional patterns. Will provides a list of materials you will need to get started, as well as tutorials on using tonal paper, charcoal, and chalk to their best advantage.

Topics include:

• Identifying the light sources
• Understanding the history of light and shadow in art
• Working with different lighting angles
• Working with line and tone shadow patterns
• Creating form with pencils, chalk, and charcoal

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