Design: Projects: Drawing

Unit

  • Foundational Skills

Questions

  • How do I draw something?

What am I making?

  • A contour line drawing of a photograph from the Photo Composition lesson

  • and a cross-hatching drawing of a photograph from the same lesson

  • example Drawing page you would put on your Google Site

How do I make it?

Steps

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

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

  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 2 original photographs and the 2 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."

Grading

  • 4/A = Do all the steps, 2 interesting insights about "what I learned"

  • 3/B = Do all the steps, interesting "what I learned"

  • 2/C = Do all the steps, basic "what I learned"

Career Connections

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

Resources