Foundational Skills: Design: Projects 21: Drawing

  • How do I draw something?

  • How do we see?

What am I making?

  1. A full-page contour line drawing of a photograph from the Photo Composition lesson

    • represents all the edges and outlines in the photograph

  2. and a full-page cross-hatching drawing of a photograph from the same lesson

    • represents all the dark areas in the photograph

  3. and a full-page "negative drawing" made by erasing the light parts of a photograph

    • represents all the light areas in the photograph

  4. (example link) a Google Site portfolio page titled Drawing with the 3 drawings paired with the 3 photographs

    • and 2 (or more) sentence reflection describing what you learned about Seeing and Drawing

How do I make it?

Steps

Video Tutorial for Steps 4-8

  1. Make your contour and cross-hatching and erasing drawings on blank paper with pen, marker, pencil, and eraser

  2. Fill the page, and don't worry about messing up. It's practice, not being perfect.

    • Get all the details you can! See deeply. Capture light and dark values when shading.

  3. Take a photograph of each drawing, get up close, so the drawing fills the frame

  4. Make a web page called Drawings on your Google Site

  5. Add the 3 original photographs and the 3 photographs of the drawings you made.

  6. Write about what you learned doing this assignment, mention skills and techniques.

  7. When done, push the Publish button, review the settings, and publish.

  8. Then click the chain-link button, Copy the link for your page, and paste it into Google Classroom to "turn in."

Career Connections

  • Being able to draw quickly and mostly accurately can help you in many creative applications for communicating emotions and ideas

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