developdrawingstyles

Develop Drawing Styles

Semester 2, 2008

Class Schedule

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Assessment One - Life Drawing (30 %)

Instructions:

You are required to submit an attractively presented A3 folio of life drawings done (a) in the four sessions with a life model in class, and (b) in a similar amount of time ( i.e. about eight hours) outside of class. The drawings done outside of class may be done at life drawing venues outside the school, from clothed models, and/or from living animals. For a list of life drawing venues around Sydney see below. You can also do ONE of your two-hour sessions here: http://www.posemaniacs.com/pose/thirtysecond.html

You should choose a selection of your drawings sufficient to clearly demonstrate your grasp of ALL of the techniques listed below under "Marking Criteria". These selected drawings must be displayed neatly mounted on backing sheets in the front part of the portfolio. The remainder of your drawings should be enclosed in a series of plastic sleeves at the back of the portfolio, one for each drawing session, as supporting evidence of your efforts. All sheets must be dated, and trimmed neatly and cleaned up where necessary,

Provide the portfolio with an attractively designed cover sheet, giving your name and the name of the subject

DUE DATE: Week 7 class.

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IMAGES SHOWING SKELETAL CONSTRUCTION

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Life Drawing Venues in Sydney

The times and addresses for the venues aprt from the Julian Ashton Art School are taken from an internet listing that may not be entirely reliable or up to date, so make sure you phone the venue beforehand to confirm times, address and costs.

Julian Ashton Art School, Mon, Wed, Thu 6.30-9.30pm (short poses) , Sat 10.00am-12.45pm, 1.30-4.15pm (long pose), Sun 10.00am-12.00pm (short poses), 1.00-4.30pm (long pose). 117 George St, The Rocks, 9241 1641. No booking necessary.

Arthouse Hotel, Mon 6.30-9.30pm, Pitt Street, Sydney.

Friend in Hand Hotel, Mon 6.30-9.30pm, 58 Cowper St, Glebe.

TAP Gallery, Mon 7.00-10.00pm, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst.

Artichoke Café, Manly, Wed 6.30-8.30pm, 17 Central Avenue, Manly.

Royal Art Society, Thu 7-9pm & Fri 10am-1pm, 25-27 Walker St, North Sydney, 9955 5752

Manly Art Gallery, Tue 7.30-9.30pm, West Esplanade Manly, 9976 1420

St. George Art Society, Thu 7.30-9.30pm (monthly), Cnr Queens & Bown Rd, Kogarah, 9546 6992

Ryde Art Society, Thu 9.30am -12.00pm, 770 Victoria Road, Ryde, 9808 2254

Oatley 101 Society of Artists, Mon 7.00-9.30pm, 101 Woronora Parade, Oatley, 9594 4390

Nepean Art Society, Contact Art Society, 3 North Street, Penrith, 4774 1099

Hornsby Art Society, Tue 10.00am–3.30pm, Epping Community Ctr, Oxford St, 9869 8756

FONAS, National Art School, Mon 5.30-8.30pm, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, 9339 8635

Blacktown Arts Centre, Tue 6.00-9.00pm, Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown, 9839 6558

Marrickville Sketch Club, Tue 7.30-9.30pm, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville, 0410 657 536

Granville Sketch Club, Tue 7.30-10.00pm, St Mary St, Granville, 9686 1370

Pennant Hills Sketch Club, Thu 7.00-10.00pm, 8 Warne Street, Pennant Hills, 0414 88 0043

Castle Hill Art Society, Thu 1.00-3.00pm, McMullen Avenue, Castle Hill, 9899 3179

Whitehouse Parramatta, Mon 8.00-10.00pm, 115 – 125 Church St, Parramatta, 0405 605 979

The Kirk, Mon 6.00-9.00pm, 422 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, 9698 5914

Assessment Two - Composition Project - Odyssey Drawings (70%)

Your assessment for this section of the subject will be based on a workbook and accompanying materials, comprising:

1. Three A4 pen and ink drawings of scenes from the "Odyssey" of Homer. You should ensure that your choice of subjects allows you to demonstrate your grasp of the topics dealt with this year. Specifically, each drawing should be in a realistic style showing at least two figures that look "solid", that display believable and expressive action, and that are set in a space with a believable perspective. Further, each drawing should show an effective composition, based on demonstrated exploration of alternative arrangments, and an appropriate use of sketches and photo reference (i.e. don't guess anything that you can find out). At least one of the drawings must be coloured using pencil/watercolour/gouache, acrylic/markers/mixed mediums.

2. Preparatory work (counting for 40% of Assessment Two), which should include:

- compositional studies exploring alternative arrangements

- sketchbook studies for details

or landscape settings

- printed copies of photo reference you have used

- a full-scale pencil preparatory study (modello)

- reduced-scale studies exploringing the expressive effect of alternative tonal and colour schemes.

Suggestions of scenes for illustration will be made here later.

DEADLINES (due in each case at start of class)

Week 9 class: SUBMIT SCANS of first compositional roughs

Week 13 class: SUBMIT PHOTOCOPY of completed full-scale pencil modello of illustration

Week 17 class: SUBMIT final drawing and accompanying materials

RECOMMENDED TRANSLATIONS

A.S.(Tony) Kline, 2004 (fully indexed version)

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/klineasodyssey.htm (download pdf)

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Greek/Odhome.htm (online)

E.V. Rieu, 1946 (complete modern prose version)

http://www.archive.org/details/TheOdyssey (download DjVu file, 15.8 MB)

OVERVIEWS

The Odyssey (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey

List of Trojan War characters

Very helpful index of characters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trojan_War_characters

An Illustrated Companion to the Trojan War

The story told in eighteenth and nineteenth century engravings.

http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/odyssey/books.htm

Synopsis with images (University of Wisconsim)

Odyssey begins halfway down page

http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/1200/twar2.htm

Homer's Odyssey (Peter Struck)

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/homer/

FUN STUFF

EXPLORE the ruins of Troy via a series of 360 degree QuickTime panoramas. Click and drag to look around, and watch out for the places you

can click on to get to the next location:

http://www.stoa.org/metis/cgi-bin/qtvr?site=troy

SEE a reconstruction of Troy.

Click on the top margin VI.

http://www.troia.de/pages/troia_panoramen.html

FOLLOW Odysseus' travels to Ithaca (Ithaki) in Google Earth using one of the maps

below as a guide.

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng120/odyjour.htm

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/homer/odymap.php

http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/1200/2001.jpg

SEE the Odyssey in the archaic style of Greek script (all capitals, no spaces between words) in “the Missing First

Edition” (ed. Ross G. Arthur)

http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Greek.html (PDF, 684K)

HEAR some attempted reconstructions of how extracts from the Odyssey were originally sung or (later) recited in ancient

Greece:

Sung with accompaniment (Georg Danek and Stefan Hagel):

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/sh/

Sung unaccompanied (Christian Homer Pecaut):

http://www.archive.org/details/Odyssey_in_Ancient_Greek (mp3 files)

Recited (Alan Shaw):

http://www.prosoidia.com/odys.html

WATCH short plasticene and lego animations of scenes from the Odyssey

Odysseus and the Kyklopes -

http://www.archive.org/details/OATKGOOD (MP4 format, 7.2 MB)

The Odyssey: Books 21-22

http://www.archive.org/details/Odyssey (RM format, 4 MB)

The SIMP-SONS

http://www.watchthesimpsonsonline.com/movie/62-The_Simpsons_1314_Tales_from_the_Public_Domain.html

PEN ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUE LINKS

Maginnis, Charles. Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17502 (4.9 MB zip) OR

http://www.archive.org/details/pendrawingillust00magirich (DjVu/pdf)

Sullivan, Edmund J. 1921. The Art Of Illustration.

http://www.archive.org/details/TheArtOfIllustration

Sullivan, Edmund J. 1922. Line - An Art Study.

http://www.archive.org/details/lineartstudy00sulluoft

EXAMPLES OF LINE ILLUSTRATION IN CONTOUR STYLE

Flaxman's Odyssey (images)

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/flaxman_odyssey.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Flaxman

Flaxman's Iliad and Odyssey (pdf book)

http://books.google.com/books?vid=057SsIKCquMO884tT7w&id=azcRAAAAIAAJ

http://books.google.com/books?vid=0OYFmpcf0F-bq8xjXDn&id=wjcRAAAAIAAJ

Willy Pogany's illustrations for The Adventures of Odysseus & the Tale of Troy.

http://www.bartleby.com/75/illus.html

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