Page 15 - the art of mushroom

4 Darker shadows will give depth to the

artwork so take a soft charcoal and add
1 Sketch the outline of the mushroom darker details like the leaves in the illus-
trations. Give it a smudge but not too
and indication .
much that it loses its details but good
enough to shade the background.

put down light layers and dark layers for the 2
values.Lightly smudge them. The last step is to see if the dark and light is 5
I use an art brush for this artwork. highlights balanced and clean up white areas from the
are using the whiteness of the paper so be smudging .Take a kneaded eraser and make a
careful not to smudge the light areas. point so that its easier to pickup the charcoal
marks .

3

continue to do the same technique but
keep layering and smudging on darker
areas such as the top of the cap. add
details like textures and spots so that
everything wont look flat .

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