FAD 2: Sketchbook Requirements

B-weekly, you will have a sketchbook assignment due on Sundays. Your sketches must be entirely original. You will submit them by taking a photo and submitting them on Canvas. These sketchbook assignments should take you a minimum of 1 hour to complete. You can use any drawing, painting or collage materials for your sketchbooks.

Cycle of Sketchbook Assignments

Artist Exploration: Explore an artist of your choice. Create a sketchbook page that incorporates this artist's style. You can jot down notes, recreate one of their artworks, create your own artwork with their style, use their color palette, etc.
Observation: Create a sketch by drawing something you are looking at. It must be in front of you and not on your iPad.
Techniques: learn a new technique. This can be one point/two point perspective, a different way of drawing, shading, coloring, painting, etc. Look at the options below.
Prompt: Choose a prompt from the list below.
Art Movement: Choose an art movement below to research and explore.

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Artist Exploration

List of Artists

Observation

Techniques

Examples:

One-Point Perspective
Two-Point Perspective
Shading
Sketching from Observation
Drawing architecture
Drawing the interior of a room
Hatching, Cross Hatching, or Stippling
Logo Design

Prompts

List of Prompts

Art Movements

Directions: Choose an art movement from history to research and explore. Create a sketchbook page that includes the following:

The name of the art movement and the time period.
A brief description of its key characteristics, techniques, and themes.
Names of at least two influential artists from the movement and examples of their work.
A small study or artwork inspired by the movement. This can be your interpretation of the style, technique, or theme using your own subject matter.

Pre-20th Century Art Movements:

Prehistoric Art (c. 40,000 BCE–3,000 BCE)Ancient Egyptian Art (c. 3,000 BCE–30 BCE)Ancient Greek & Roman Art (c. 900 BCE–476 CE)Byzantine Art (c. 330–1453)Romanesque Art (c. 1000–1150)Gothic Art (c. 1150–1400)Renaissance (c. 1300–1600)Mannerism (c. 1520–1600)Baroque (c. 1600–1750)Rococo (c. 1700–1780)Neoclassicism (c. 1750–1830)Romanticism (c. 1800–1850)Realism (c. 1840–1880)

Modern Art Movements (19th–20th Century):

Impressionism (c. 1860s–1890s)Post-Impressionism (c. 1880s–1905)Symbolism (c. 1880s–1910)Art Nouveau (c. 1890–1910)Fauvism (c. 1905–1910)Expressionism (c. 1905–1930s)Cubism (c. 1907–1920s)Futurism (c. 1909–1920s)Dadaism (c. 1916–1924)De Stijl (Neoplasticism) (c. 1917–1931)Bauhaus (c. 1919–1933)Surrealism (c. 1924–1950s)Abstract Expressionism (c. 1940s–1950s)Color Field Painting (c. 1940s–1960s)Pop Art (c. 1950s–1970s)Minimalism (c. 1960s–1970s)Op Art (Optical Art) (c. 1960s)Conceptual Art (c. 1960s–1970s)

Contemporary & Postmodern Art Movements (Late 20th Century–Present):

Performance Art (c. 1960s–present)Installation Art (c. 1970s–present)Postmodernism (c. 1970s–present)Street Art & Graffiti Art (c. 1970s–present)Neo-Expressionism (c. 1980s–1990s)Digital Art (c. 1990s–present)New Media Art (c. 1990s–present)Bio Art (c. 2000s–present)AI-Generated Art (c. 2010s–present)

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