Sketchbook AssignmentsYour sketchbook should become a detailed record of your progress in this class. It will give you a chance to look back and forth and see your own improvement. It will also give you a chance to experiment and explore.
All sketchbook assignments should be in your sketchbook (even if done on a separate piece of paper and attached later) and should be complete drawings. A complete drawing is one that has been taken as far as necessary, either with shading, coloring, inking, etc. Rushed or unfinished drawing will be graded as such. Each assignment is worth 25 points. 1. Friday, September 19 – Draw the thing you feel you draw best. 2. Friday, September 26 - Draw an animal doing something strange. 3. Friday, October 3 - If your mind was an old dusty attic filled with forgotten belongings what would you find there? Please draw that. 4. Friday, October 10 - Draw something that you wish you had. Work from a picture. Don’t make it up. Include the picture you worked from. Tape it to the corner of the drawing. 5. Wednesday, October 24 – Draw a human face realistically. 6. Friday, October 31 – Draw something scary. 7. Friday, November 7 - Choose 3 unrelated words. Incorporate those three things into one colored pencil drawing. Example – duck, flower, burrito. 8. Thursday, November 14 – Draw your own hand. Shade it. Make it awesome. NO THANKSGIVING TURKEYS (that means don’t trace your hand.) 9. Friday, November 21 – Draw something that includes a TURKEY, and it had better be weird. 10. Thursday, December 5 – Draw an eye. Make it large, and close-up. 11. Friday, December 12 – Draw something from your imagination. Experiment with color. Advanced Drawing & Printmaking The advanced class will have a sketchbook assignment due on each due date listed above, but can choose their own subject and technique. If you’re feeling stumped though, and you just want to repeat the beginning assignment. That is fine. |
Drawing & Printmaking Course DescriptionIn this course students learn and use a variety of drawing and printmaking materials and techniques as they explore the process of communicating through a 2-dimensional picture plane.
What's happening now? As of September 3, drawing class has done a lot of short exercises meant to develop skills and teach techniques. Today, we started our first "real" drawing in the form of an oil pastel landscape. This will go on throughout this week and into next.
Stay tuned for updates. Project ListExcercises:
Value Scale in 7 Steps Create a gradation from white to black in seven gradual steps. Shading should be smooth and even, and pencil marks shouldn’t be evident. 100 Marks Cover a 10” x 10” paper with a 1” grid. This will create 100 separate boxes. Make 100 DIFFERENT types of marks, one in each box. Egg-septional Drawing Draw an egg, with complete and accurate shading. Projects: Drapery Study/Still Life: Working from Life Draw the supplied still life in multiple value tones/textures. Chalk Pastel Still Life Using the provided still life, you will do a sight drawing that best represents the reality you see in front of you. Landscape Drawing Working from source material, you will create a landscape drawing in oil pastel that represents all of the color and value present in nature. 3-Tone Charcoal Figure Drawing Use the 3-Tone drawing technique to represent the human figure. Illustrating an Idea: Poem, Song, Line of Text Choose a poem, song, or other text and create a series of corresponding illustrations. Special attention should be paid to continuity. Block Print By means of reduction printing you will create an edition of 8-10 images. Your goal will be to produce 4 of superior quality. Colligraph By cutting and pasting onto a piece of mat board, you will create a plate to be printed in an edition of 10. Final Project: Mixed Media Composition Create a final project using a variety of materials demonstrating the techniques learned throughout the course. The piece should be a study of a famous work of art. |