TRIMESTER ONE

TAROT

TAROT DEFINITION:

A tarot card is a symbolic, structured, and artistically crafted tool that fits into the 78-card

tarot system and conveys meaning through archetypal imagery.

OUR ASSIGNMENT:

Archetypes are universally understood patterns, symbols, or characters found in stories, myths, and psychology.

For this assignment:

1) Redesign a chosen tarot card

consider the following for your own card:

a) what is your subject?

b) what is the shape of your card: circle? rectangle?

c) what is the meaning or story you want to convey?

Imagery may include:

animals
celestial bodies
paths/landscapes
tools (swords, cups, pentacles, wands)

remember: the pose of a body and the body language expressed tell a story, too!

MOVIE POSTERS

The Wondrous Movie Posters of Ghana's Underground Video Clubs Come to NC ComiconIn remote villages, underground screenings were promoted with posters painted on flour sacks by artists who sometimes had only the VHS box art for reference.

Assignment: Design Your Own Movie Poster

You will design a poster for an original movie concept—this can be any genre (sci-fi, drama, comedy, fantasy, thriller, etc.). Your poster should clearly communicate the mood, theme, and style of your film while highlighting your artistic voice.

Objective:

Create an original, visually compelling movie poster that demonstrates your understanding of:

composition,
typography,
Symbolism
visual storytelling.

Requirements for the Movie Poster

1. Original Movie Concept

Invent a movie title or choose an existing one.
Decide on a genre and main theme.

2. Poster Design Elements

Your poster must include:

Title of your movie (clearly visible)
At least one main image that represents the film
Is there a tagline (a short, memorable phrase)
Imagined credits (director, actors, studio — can be fictional)

Group Contour Drawing Activity

Blind Contour Shoe Drawing Instructions

Set Up:
- Place one shoe per table and set up a blank sketchbook page in front of the shoe.
Materials:
- Use markers!
- no looking at the paper and embrace distortions!
Activity:
- Students draw their shoe for 2 minutes without looking.
- When time’s up, they move one seat to the right with their marker and draw the next shoe over the previous drawing.

'Blind contour drawing' is when contour drawing is done without looking at the paper AT ALL.

This helps train you to look more often at your subject than look at your paper. Staring down at your paper while drawing can be a hard habit to break~

"Continuous line contour drawing' is a contour drawing done without picking your pencil off of the paper. It is essentially done with one long line. Continuous line contour drawings can be done 100% "blind" or not.

A "modified contour line drawing" allows you to look at your paper and pick up your pen, using multiple lines instead of one.

Although not completely blind, the artist should only look at the paper 10% of the time, and at the object 90% of the time. The artist only looks at the paper to place their pencil when they start a new line.

Contour drawings use no shading, but lighter and darker tonal areas can be "suggested" by varying line width and pressure. Darker, thicker lines can be used in shadow areas, and lighter, thinner lines in lighter areas.

Cross contour lines are drawn lines which travel, as the name suggests, across the form. Cross contours follow the form of the surface area- using curved lines over curving or spherical planes, straight lines across flat surfaces, etc.