Underwater world

Underwater World

Goals for project:

• practice skills learned in drawing unit

• utilize techniques for creating the illusion of space

Essential Standard: VA:Cr2.1.7a

Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.

Part 1: Choose your fish

Find fish for your underwater world and save them to your camera roll.

• do you want a variety of fish?

• do you want several different poses of the same fish?

• will you include 5 different types of fish?

Pull your fish into a drawing app and find the basic shapes: add the pic collage of your work to slides.

Practice drawing your fish. Sketch them out on sketch paper using basic shapes and then refine your fish so that they make believable fish. Take a photo and add to slides.

Part 2: Reference photos and research: what needs to be there to make your scene believable?

Decide where your underwater scene will be.

• will your fish be swimming in the ocean?

• are your fish in an aquarium?

• is your underwater scene in a pond or a fresh water lake?

• are you fish swimming at the bottom of your water body?

• what plants or other objects might be showing in your scene?

• are there other animals/creatures in your scene?

Find reference photos for your scene, and list the properties of the setting you wish to use. This is like a 10 x 2 in terms of observation. What do you notice about shape, size, color, placement, angles, overlap? Take a photo of your notes WITH the photo you are using and add to the slideshow.

Part 3: Create your underwater world

• For this project, you will use drawing paper.

• You must include a minimum of 5 fish.

• You must create the illusion of space using overlap, size, and placement on the paper.

• Your figures must go off of the page on 3 sides of your paper.

Part 4: Artist Statement