UNIT 10: Narrative Drawing

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(s) and MATERIALS:

Essential Questions:

What is a Narrative Drawing?
How can we use the elements in our drawing to tell a story?
How can we use value to make a 2D object/item appear 3D or realistic on a flat surface?

Materials:

IPad
Pencil
Eraser
Paper
GridTool Website
Grid Image of your photo

STANDARDS

STANDARDS:

7th GRADE

Creating:

1.1 Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

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

2.3 Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.

3.0 Reflect on and explain important information about personal artist statement or another format.

Responding:

7.1 Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.

8th GRADE

Creating:

1.1 Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or contemporary media.

2.1 Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

2.3 Select, organize and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.

3.0 Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

Responding:

7.1 Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture, environment, and personal experiences . which impacts the message it conveys to others.

OBJECTIVE(S)

PROJECT OBJECTIVE:

In order to learn more about how form and composition can engage your viewer with a story, you will apply the 5 compositional techniques and value to create an artwork the depicts a narrative using a set of objects.

KEY TERMS

KEY TERMS:

Value:
- The relative lightness and darkness of an object.
Value Scale:
- It is a system of organizing values; these shades of grey make up the "meat" of the drawing and helps to create the illusion of depth (3D)
Light Source:
- The most luminous element affecting any given environment.
Highlight:
- A reflection, focused or diffused, of the light source.
Midtone (Halftone):
- It is the value intermediate between light and value.
Cast Shadow:
- A shadow cast by an object or figure in a painting or other picture.
Core Shadow:
- Is the fuzzy band between the midtone and the area of reflected light on a rounded form such as a sphere.
Narrative Drawing:
- Is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time

PROJECT DIRECTIONS

DIRECTIONS:

For this project, you will be creating a narrative drawing about a set of objects using contrasting value, the 5 composition tips, and rule of odds. Your objects may be all the same, different, or partially repeat.
- Bring 3 objects to class.
- Photograph and change to black and white.
- Go to www.griddrawingtool.com to create grid on black and white image. Download photo with grid and save to Photos on iPad.

Narrative Drawing Project DUE FRIDAY (1/31) on Google Classroom @ the end of class!

EXAMPLES and RESOURCES

Grid Drawing Tool Website

STUDENT EXAMPLES:

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