Sketchbook assignments are designed to enhance drawing and composition skills. Students should spend one to two hours or so on each drawing. Please complete each drawing in your sketchbook an sign and date each drawing. Sketchbooks will be turned in on the indicated date on the calender below. Two points will be take for each day the sketchbook assignment is late, assignments will be marked zero "0" if it is not turned in within a week after the due date. Please remember to be creative. Use a two page spread for each assignment. HAVE FUN!!
Journal #1: Student Choice
Due: Thursday, September 26, 2013
· Please choose 2 sketchbook assignments.
· You must use the entire page or a two page spread
· All work must have highlights and shadow (limited white space)
1. Creature Creation: build some creatures using elements you create “Read the direction carefully!
2. Edvard Munch: “The Scream” draw what happens next.
3. Using stippling in the some style as Kathe Kollwitz, draw an object.
4. Draw a small part of Salvador Dali work and finish the composition with your own designs.
5. Draw a mutant animal or insect in an transportation setting, (subway, airport, train station)
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Journal #2: Positive and Negative Space
Due: Friday, October 4, 2013
This is the first of a two part journal assignment.
This first exercise will introduce you to the technique that will be used on the final journal entry.
You will need:
1 sheet of black construction paper, 5x7"
1 sheet of white unlined paper, 8.5x11"Scissors
Glue stick
Start by cutting a 5x7"
rectangle out of black construction paper.
Next, draw a shape that starts and ends along one side.
Your shape should use up the majority of the space WITHOUT
breaking thru the border. Flip this first space and align it along the axis, as shown.
Continue drawing shapes and flipping them out, aligning them precisely along the axis.
Create 5 changes (from positive to negative) and glue the final version to white paper. NO TAPE.
PART II- Create a second Positive Negative design. This time, use specific shapes and designs from your concentration!
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JOURNAL #3: EXPRESSIVE LINE
DUE: FRIDAY, October 11, 2013
Please refer to the link belo for examples!
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
SIZE: 1 page
BLACK INK ONLY
About 1.5 hours work
FREEHAND (no straightedge, rulers, etc.)
DIRECTIONS:Use various pen sizes to complete a page in your journal using lines that are "expressive". Fill the entire page. Your designs should represent a thorough exploration of line. Your page should be BALANCED and have a CLEAR CENTER OF ATTENTION.
Use different size (or weight) lines;
Use calligraphic lines (lines that move from thick to thin, and back again)
Use pens with differently sized tips.
Use broken lines, solid lines, lines with jiggle, lines with jazz!
Use lines that create tension and/or lines that create a sense of calm!
Stick with organic, free flowing, hand drawn lines (we will be doing a constructivist line drawing later!)
Use lines to express energy, movement, rhythm
Use line to show motion or direction (moves the eye around the page)
Use line to express m ood (serious, frivolous, etc.)
Use line to show emotion (happy, sad, calm, giddy, excited)
In short, find every way to use a line that you can possibly think of! (see list at right!)
EVALUATION:
Grades will be based upon time spent, effort, thought, planning, following directions, and complexity of the drawing.
Remember that this is an advanced level class, and that there is a HIGHER STANDARD of work expected!
NO CREDIT will be given for efforts that are minimal.
NO CREDIT will be given for work not in a journal. Do not glue, staple, tape or otherwise affix your work to your journal. Do it in the journal. Always.
NO CREDIT will be given for late journals. This INCLUDES being late to class.
Please also understand that students who are consistently NOT in class on days when journals are due, should NOT expect A's for their efforts. If you are part of a school based activity (field trip), your journal MUST be turned in prior to leaving.
Types of LINE
broken
blurred
controlled
curved
diagonal
freehand
fuzzy
horizontal
interrupted
meandering
short
straight
thick
thin
vertical
wide
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JOURNAL #4: FRUIT/VEGETABLE
DUE: FRIDAY, October 17, 2013
Fruit/Vegetable Drawing Series- create a series of drawings using colored pencils that capture the fruit or vegetable as it is in varying stages of ripeness to rottenness (or begin with the whole fruit and draw various stages of it being eaten).
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JOURNAL #5: GRAPHIC DRAWING
DUE: FRIDAY, October 25, 2013
Do a graphic drawing of a still-life arrangement that consists of reflective objects- your goal is to convey a convincing representation with a full range of values. To add interest to the composition, you might also want to render yourself being reflected in the objects
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JOURNAL #6: FUNKY PORTRAIT
DUE: FRIDAY, November 1, 2013
Funky portrait of classmate using thick bold outlines/contours, and areas of flat color (David Bates).
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JOURNAL #7: INSECT
DUE: FRIDAY, November 8, 2013
Compositions that involve the use of insect imagery.
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JOURNAL #8: BOUNDARIES
DUE: FRIDAY, November 15, 2013
A composition that denies the boundaries of surface edges-compositions that could extend indefinitely beyon edges.
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JOURNAL #9: TYPE AND IDEA
DUE: FRIDAY November 22, 2013
An Integration of Type and Idea
Type: Can be interpreted in many ways: Lyrics, single words, prose, poetry…
Idea: What are you trying to make the viewer fell, understand, love, hate, etc.
What are you trying to say/convey?
For this assignment, you will create an image where type is conveyed on/in/around/behind/under/reflecting from/ falling onto the image/idea you’ve chosen to portray.
You can choose to create an image from observation or imagination. Be careful in your choice. One is not more impressive or important than the other. It all depends on what you are trying to do.
And, by image, I mean an artwork in two dimensions. Painting, drawing, relief (as long as the back is flat and can hang on the wall).
Things to be aware of:
As always, placement and composition, perspective, use of space (both positive and negative) and technique are extremely important.
Interpretation of an idea is the focus here. Did you get your idea across to the viewer?