Grade 9 Assignment: DETAILED ANIMAL Value Drawing
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Topics Studied:
Elements and Principles of Design
value, line, shape, form, texture, space
contrast, rhythm, unity
Drawing techniques
Looking and Seeing like and Artist
Communication (presentation/ reflection)
Resources: Books and the internet
Media: Graphite Pencil
Support: 5 x 7 piece of paper
Objective: Draw 1 realistic animal portrait (head/shoulders)
You must...
FILL THE PAGE
Draw accurate textures, details, and proportions
Illustrate an excellent range of values (lights and darks)
Leave no evidence of outlines (no 'colouring book' outlines)
Demonstrate strong command of the pencils and all other tools used (smooth blending, sharp edges, various drawing techniques)
Provide evidence of your Creative Design Process
a) creative and critical thinking (brainstorming/planning)
b) hands-on practice; studies; trial and error; experimentation; skill development
c) application of knowledge/understanding of techniques and theories
d) critical analysis and edits/revisions
e) presentation (framed carefully and beautifully); labeled well
f) reflection (write a short note about your drawing and the process of creating it)
Process:
Step 1 – Acknowledge your Spirit Animal or choose one of your favourite animals.
Step 2 -Find a minimum of 3 Visual Resources (showing proportions, details... fur/skin/feathers... eyes, ears etc.)
Step 3 – Create a WORD DOCUMENT of visual references of your chosen animal.
Choose images that have interesting, clear features (lashes, highlights, shapes...)
Copy images that can be blown up without losing quality.
-EXAMPLE of Visual Reference Sheet
Step 4 – Get it APPROVED by Ms. Porter.
Step 5 –Print it
Step 6 –Practice specific parts of your animal that are challenging (ex. fur, pupils, lashes)
TIPS:
a) Start light and stay light until you get it right as you outline the animal
b) Block in the basic shapes and darks (shadows) and lights (highlights)
c) Use your eraser to lighten all your sketch lines until you can barely see them.
REMEMBER in the end there should be no evidence of these sketch lines or other contour
outlines!
Sketching accurate proportions is the foundation of realistic drawing. If the proportions are off, then no amount of beautiful shading or fancy pencil marks can save a drawing.
d) Bring the animal to life ----start filling it in with shading and other drawing techniques
Closely examine the different values. The shading used to draw a realistic animal needs to illustrate the 3D forms of the nose, mouth, ears, and the iris, eyeball, eyelids, and bone structures around the eye.
e) Be patient and work hard right to the end (i.e. don't give up and/or become careless)
f) Add final details (lashes, extra highlights, dark wrinkles, fluffy feathers…)
Utilize the different mark making techniques you learned to illustrate the variety of textures and fine features of the animal (ex. smooth shading, hatching, crosshatching, stippling, scumbling, and contour lines…)
g) Critique it yourself. Get your peers to do it as well. SERIOUSLY. Then ask your teacher to critique it too.
Assessing and critiquing your artwork is a CRITICAL step in the creative design process of making quality art. Take it seriously, look closely and carefully at your work through the eyes of an artist, AND make the appropriate edits and changes, no matter how annoyed or tired you are or how difficult or time consuming they may seem.
h) Make the edits, revisions, changes…
i) Get the final ok from your teacher that you are finished!
j) Prepare it for presentation by framing it:
Cut a 5 x 7 rectangle out of a 6 x 8 piece of black bristle board
k) Sign the back of it.
l) Complete the FINAL EVALUATION
m) Write a REFLECTION (on the back of the Final Evaluation Sheet.
Click here for FINAL EVALUATION SHEET and REFLECTION or see below
NAME____________________________
FINAL Evaluation: My Art ABCs - Teacher Self Peer__
A: Artistic (skills and creativity) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
1. N0 outlines! J 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
2. SMOOTH, solid shading (not liney) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
3. Value/Contrast (no large areas of flat shades) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
4. Form (3D effect) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
5. Texture 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
6. Rhythm 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
7. Unity 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
8. Graded tones from dark to light or light to dark 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
9. Accurate proportions and shapes (avoid symbols) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
10. Variety of mark making techniques 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
B: Beautiful and/or Bold (to look at and/or think about)
Sharp clean edges 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Dark darks, light lights are visible from a distance 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Unique, interesting, realistic, beautiful, scary… effect 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Space filled appropriately 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Presentation (Framed: neat, not bent/rolled) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
C: Complete/Communicate/Complexity/Creative Design
Reasonable complexity (details and design) 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Evaluation Art ABCs sheet handed in________ ___YES NO
Final Artwork Reflection 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
Evidence of Creative Design Process _______ __ _ 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
REFLECTION: Animal Eye Value Drawing NAME__________________
What do you like/dislike about your artwork?
What challenges did you face when you were creating it?
How did you solve problems/fix things?
What would you do differently next time?
What did you learn about…
Drawing
The creative design process
Yourself?