Jo's Old Site

In the lesson before this I learnt that squirkling is a method of shading which randomly drawn curved lines creates textured values. And in this lesson I learnt that the beauty of squirkles is its ability to produce an infinite range of values and also can produce a variety of textures too as Brenda’s examples on what squirkling can do are amazing. Also she explains that densely rendered graduated squirkles appear less heavily textured than loosely drawn graduations. Also another thing that is important when we are drawing squirkles is size: as when we draw it close together the circles are very tiny and this effect can leave a very smooth texture, we can also use different grades of pencils to help us to produce the effect that we are after. I also thought that I have learnt something about art in this lesson, and it made me remember a time when I was a girl that I had drawn an American Cocker Spaniel’s nose using this method but unfortunately I don’t have this drawing anymore.

Also in the next illustration that Brenda showed in this lesson we see the cartoon sheep again, and she points out how loosely rendered squirkles can create a woolly, knobby, or bumpy texture: I also thought that these circles are done bigger than the ones that produced the smooth texture. I also remember from the lesson before this that the cartoon sheep was also done with light, medium, and dark values then as I read further I discovered that when different values appear together that this creates either a high or low contrast. Then Brenda explains that a dark value is a high contrast and a light value is a low contrast. And a contrast is created when light and dark values appear together to highlight a drawing. Also I thought that Brenda did a good job at showing how useful squirkles, and squirkling is.