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Background History
Background History
Things we will practice:
Things we will practice:
- Calligraphic Line
- Hatching & Cross Hatching
- Value
- Appropriation
- Composition
- Patterning/ Surface decor
- Cultural Appreciation
Rubric
Rubric
Commitment to Quality (20pts)
Line Variation/ Calligraphic Line (20pts)
Proportions (20pts)
Creativity/ Originality (20pts)
Cleanliness/ Pencil Erased (20pts)
Basic WORKFLOW
Basic WORKFLOW
Step 1: Pick an artwork from Art History.
Step 2: Begin sketching using your art historical image, skeleton, and pattern references. Use thumbnails to stretch your ideas and come up with new ones.
Step 3: Refine your drawing. Begin thinking about contour and calligraphic line.
Step 4: Ink your work, consider line thickness, hatching, cross hatching, and adding ink washes as values.
Step 5: Erase all of your pencil marks. (You will not be able to erase your pencil after applying wash or watercolor)
Step 6: Take a photo of your work using natural light, crop, and edit the image of your work.
Step 1:
Step 1:
Pick an artwork from Art History
Pick an artwork from Art History
I'm okay if you pick an artwork outside of the ones I'm providing, but please make sure it's a work of art that is well known, and not just something you found on instagram. If you are unsure, run it by me first.
Below you may click on the appropriate files to access a decent quality image for printing if you are able to print your reference.
Below you may click on the appropriate files to access a decent quality image for printing if you are able to print your reference.
Or use class copies.
Or use class copies.
Resources: Skeleton Anatomy
Resources: Skeleton Anatomy
Click on the files below for skeleton references to use in your works.
Or use class copies.
Or use class copies.
Step 2: Develop Your Composition through sketching
Step 2: Develop Your Composition through sketching
video Tutorial
video Tutorial
You are encouraged to use artistic license to push creative boundaries or create meaning.
You are encouraged to use artistic license to push creative boundaries or create meaning.
DOA Sketch.mp4Step 3: Refine your drawing.
Step 3: Refine your drawing.
Consider creating emphasis and weight through calligraphic line.
Consider creating emphasis and weight through calligraphic line.
In the image above, can you tell which parts of my drawing are still in the sketch stage and which are becoming more refined?
In the image above, can you tell which parts of my drawing are still in the sketch stage and which are becoming more refined?
Step 4: Inking your Drawing Video
Step 4: Inking your Drawing Video
Time Codes you can jump to above:
Time Codes you can jump to above:
How Ink Pens Work
How Ink Pens Work
Time 2:50 - 5:33
Making Washes
Making Washes
Time 5:35 - 8:40
Importance of Test Paper, Practice, and Experimentation
Importance of Test Paper, Practice, and Experimentation
Time 8:40 - 12:45
Inking the Work
Inking the Work
Time 13:00 - 17:00
Cross Hatching Value Scale
Cross Hatching Value Scale
Hatching Value Scale
Hatching Value Scale
Intro to using cross hatching from
Intro to using cross hatching from
a professional comic book artist
a professional comic book artist
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