week eight . . . drawing so ever lightly continued

This week I ended up spending some more time on drawing skills with a pencil making the students work on handling the pencil correctly and drawing lightly when they are starting a drawing.  I also did not provide erasers for them so they were faced with the situation that they could not draw too dark because they could not erase it.  The students did MUCH, MUCH better concentrating on hand placement on the pencil, choking up on it a little, drawing lightly.  I taught the olders some more facial feature work, and the youngers did some work learning various lines and their names, and different shapes.  Many of the students did really well trying to keep a light hand while they were sketching out their designs.