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TVL Illustration NCII – Grade 11
Quarter 2 – Module 2: Identify Appropriate Drawing Media for Illustration
First Edition, 2020

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 Illustration
Quarter 2
IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE DRAWING
Module MEDIA FOR ILLUSTRATION
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T E C H N I C A L VO C A T I O N A L L I V E L I H O O D
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Illustration 11 Self-Learning Module on Identify Appropriate

Drawing Media for Illustration!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Illustration 11 Self-Learning Module on Identify Appropriate

Drawing Media for Illustration!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

A. Identify the appropriate drawing tools and materials for an illustration

project;

B. Explain how they select the drawing tools and materials they use for an
illustration project;

C. Redraw an old artwork using a different medium to evoke new emotions

and ideas.

PRETEST

Direction: Write TRUE if the statement below is correct and FALSE if it tells
otherwise. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.

__________1. Aside from being a drawing material or substance, medium can be used
to describe a specific type of art like sculpture, printmaking, and painting.

__________2. Different drawing media suits different drawing styles

__________3. When experimenting or starting out with a specific drawing media, it is

recommended to buy the expensive professional art supplies.

__________4. Graphite comes in varying degrees of hardness and form.

__________5. Carbon pencils are darker than a graphite pencil and smoother than
pastels.
 RECAP

Let’s have a quick review of how much you have learned from our last
module “Maintaining Drawing Tools and Materials”

Direction: Identify the following drawing essentials if it is a tool, material, or

equipment. Write your answers on the space provided below.

_____________1. pencil _____________6. charcoal

_____________2. printer _____________7. high end drawing tablets

_____________3. personal computer _____________8. water color

_____________4. ruler _____________9. dip pen

_____________5. Paint brush _____________10. protractor

LESSON

IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE DRAWING MEDIA FOR

ILLUSTRATION

One of the many frustrations of a beginning artist is one of the foundations of

an artwork – choosing the appropriate drawing medium. Choosing the right tools
and materials for an illustration project, will greatly determine the success of your
artwork. It will also affect how your ideas and the emotions you wish to evoke in
your audience. There is no right or wrong when choosing a drawing media to work
with as long as you are comfortable while using the medium and how it properly
conveys the idea you wish to communicate. In this lesson we learn about the basic
guidelines on how to select appropriate drawing media and some tools and materials
for beginners to choose from. Let’s begin…

Drawing Medium in Art

The term “medium” in art is referring to the substance or the drawing supplies
the artist use to create an artwork. A good example is Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”,
created using reed pen and ink for the initial work and later painted in oil and
canvass. Some artist like Michelangelo created “David” using a marble as a medium.
 As an artistic material you may notice how the artist distinguish the type of
media they use for a specific artwork. Often you may find notations following the
title of the paintings:

• gouache on paper • tempera on board

• oil on canvass • ink on bamboo
• pen and ink • graphite on vellum

Aside from being a drawing material or substance, medium can be used to

describe a specific type of art like sculpture, printmaking, and painting. Essentially,
every art category is its own medium. The plural form of medium as an art material
is media.

Art medium cant be confined to just the regular supplies you can buy at an
art store. Any physical material that are added to piece of artwork is a medium, it
can be fur, a piece of cloth, chewing gum, dog hair, etc., you get the point. If these
materials are added to create art and communicate with the audience, are considered
as art media.

Choosing your drawing media

Different drawing media suits different drawing styles, and its very critical to
choose the appropriate media, drawing surface and tools that will help the artist
express their artistic idea and vision. Imagine if Van Gogh used colored pencil
instead of oil when he created Starry Night, the art piece would not be able to possess
the same depth and expression of color which an oil paint could evoke in a canvass.
Despite having an identical material with other professional artist, there is no
substitute for skill and experience, you must practice and draw a lot to get better.
Below are a few recommendations on how to select your drawing media for beginners.

1. Do not buy expensive art supplies. When experimenting or starting out

with a specific drawing media, it is not recommended to buy the expensive art
supplies unless you will devote on working with it for most of your artwork.
Professional artists that invests quality and expensive media need them for their
longevity. They sell their artworks for clients that spends a lot for quality outputs
that will last for a long time without loosing
color quality and vibrancy. Therefore, it is
better to start off with mid-range supplies
not the cheaper ones, when starting out
with a new drawing media, because most of
the time you will be working on artworks for
personal purpose or to fill in your portfolio.
Cheap art supplies will not be able to
achieve the desired output in your designs.
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 2. Do not try to make a media do something it can’t. It is essentially
impossible to force your drawing media to create something in opposition to its
original nature. One good example is when you are trying to capture more volume,
depth, and matte contrast, then charcoal stick is more appropriate to use than
graphite pencils. Same goes with coloring supplies.

3. Avoid the idea that one medium is better than other medium. An
example is that traditional drawing is better than
digital drawing. Artists using these media exert the
same effort when creating an artwork and have
different sets of audiences and type of message that
only a specific art supply can convey, therefore it’s
wrong to discredit one medium for the other. Your
choice of drawing media depends on what story or
feelings you wish to evoke with your audience.
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rockliffe.com/Traditional-Art-versus-
4. Look for reference from artist’s you Digital
admire. Study other artists’ technique on how they
apply a specific medium in their artworks to tell story and how they evoke emotions
and learn how their technique apply to your own technique in drawing. This way
you will be able to choose appropriate media in your next outputs.

All in all, selecting the type of drawing supplies for an artwork is up to you.
What media are best suited to convey your ideas and what works best for you. Below
are some drawing media options you can try out to help you get started:

A. Graphite. Comes in varying degrees of hardness and form. Once you grow
confident of using the usual wood cased
graphite pencil you try experimenting with
other graphite supplies like the woodless
graphite, graphite sticks (soft, medium,
hard) and powdered graphite.

B. Charcoal. This is one of the oldest drawing media along with chalk, if you
want more flat and matte finish in your artwork then you probably should use this
instead of graphite that reflects light. Like graphite, charcoal also comes in varieties
– Compressed pencil charcoal (black and white), compressed sticks (black and white),
willow or vine charcoal and powdered. They also come in soft, medium and hard
variety.
 C. Carbon pencil. In case you wanted something in between graphite and
charcoal, then you can try carbon pencils, its darker than a graphite pencil and
smoother than charcoal.

D Colored pencil. When selecting a colored

pencil always look for the quality and color vibrancy.
The quality of the lead will make or break your
drawing project, especially when you must blend one
color to another. Color vibrancy and variety of colored
pencil is not a hard task, because colored pencils are
sold in units. Therefore, if you want more color shade and swatches buy a set with
high number of pencils in it.

E. Sanguine. Or sometimes referred to as

red chalk, are drawing media with an earthy shade
that ranges from red ochre to intense red. It was
named as such because it resembles the color of
dried blood. This drawing media is often used to
create sketches, life drawings and rustic scenes.
This is very ideal when defining volume and contour
of the human flesh. Sanguine can be bought in the By Just plain Bill - Own work, CC
BY-SA 3.0,
form of a pencil, sticks, chalk, Conte crayon and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/
index.php?curid=3023141
pastel. Depth and volume depends on the pressure
you put while using this media.

F. Pastels. If you are after vibrant colors in your artwork, then you can
experiment with pastels. It can help you create colorful
outputs without the need of water, brushes or palletes.
There are different types of pastels you can work with: oil,
soft, hard and pastel pencils. Oil pastels are waxy and easy
to smudge and blend, soft pastels on the other hand are
crumbly and chalky but easy to smudge when blending. Soft
pastels need rough paper surfaces while hard pastels are of
course harder than soft pastels, and can provide visible hard
lines for detailed work, this pastel can also be used for color
blending. And finally, pastel pencils, basically these are
pastels with wood casing that will help you achieve fine lines
but lacks the ability to cover broad areas than pastel sticks.

G. markers. Choose markers that are suitable to your needs, some markers
come in set, or can be bought separately. Markers can come
with alcohol or water-soluble inks and can also be refillable
and disposable. When it comes to the tip you can choose
whether it is stiff or flexible (brush tip) and if its fine point or
broad. Choose properly depending on how you will use it,
for coloring or for adding fine details.
 H. ink. Choose between pigment-based or dye-based inks, the only difference
between these two ink categories is how they behave and absorbed in the paper.
Dye-based ink when applied, are absorbed and is best to use when tinting the
surface. While pigment-based ink when applied coats the surface of the paper, which
is best used to create marks and details. Of course, you still must choose your pen
with your ink – dip pen or nib pen, reed pen, fountain pen, technical pen, and brush.

There are a lot more drawing media options that you can experiment in your
illustration journey that we haven’t covered in this module, now it is up to you to
choose carefully what media is best suited with your drawing style; because enough
effort with the wrong set of tools will give no result.

ACTIVITIES

Activity A. Paste a picture of your best illustration below and explain what type/s
of media you used. Include why did you came up with that specific media in your
illustration.

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Activity B (Multimedia Composition). In your sketch pad, redraw your best

artwork from activity one using various self-chosen media. Write a short explanation
on your basis for choosing the drawing media that you used.
Guide Question: Does the new drawing media you used to redraw your past artwork
affected the idea or emotion that it once originally portrayed? Why or why not?
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Rubric in Assessing Performance output

Criteria Percentage Score
Used two or more drawing media 40%
Creativity and compliance to the 40%
theme
Neatness 20%
Remarks:

WRAP-UP

Let’s summarize your understanding from this module by listing down

the concepts you have learned. Provide a short description for each concept
you’ll be writing about the tips on how to Identify appropriate drawing media
for illustration.

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 VALUING

SHORT ESSAY:
What is personal basis, when selecting appropriate drawing media in
your personal artworks?
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POSTTEST

Identification. Fill in the missing terms and concepts to complete the following
statement. Write your answer on the space provided below.

1. When experimenting or starting out with a specific drawing media, it is not

recommended to buy the ___________________ art supplies.

2. The term “medium” in art is referring to the __________________ or the drawing

supplies the artist use to create an artwork.

3. Sanguine or sometimes referred to as red chalk, are drawing media with an

_________________ that ranges from red ochre to intense red.

4. Study other ______________ technique on how they apply a specific medium in their
artworks to tell story and how they evoke emotions and learn how their technique
apply to your own technique in drawing.

5. Avoid the idea that one medium is better than ________________.

 KEY TO CORRECTION

PRE-TEST POSTTEST
1. TRUE 1. EXPENSIVE
2. TRUE 2. SUBSTANCE
3. FALSE 3. EARTHY SHADE
4. TRUE 4. ARTISTS
5. FALSE 5. OTHER MEDIUM

RECAP
1. MATERIAL 6. MATERIAL
2. EQUIPMENT 7. EQUIPMENT
3. EQUIPMENT 8. MATERIAL
4. TOOL 9. TOOL
5. TOOL 10. TOOL

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