student work

On day 1, Carly taught a lesson about gesture drawing on the figure, consisting of the basic construction lines and understanding what a gesture drawing/technique is. Students were asked to look at reference photos projected on the board and practice gesture drawing these images in their sketchbooks in 1-2 minute intervals. After this, students were able to practice gesture drawing form a live model, myself, and we even had a few students volunteer themselves to model for their classmates! Students' favorite part was when their classmates volunteered to model; it felt more close-knit, and made the assignment lower stakes. 

For day 2, I led the teaching with a lesson around contour line drawing and the three different techniques: blind, continuous-line, and cross-contour line drawing. I introduced each technique with an example artwork, and students were asked to draw over their gesture drawings from Carlys lesson, using each contour line technique corresponding with a different image projected on the board, which were the same images from Carlys projection. For more practice, students were asked to partner up and practice blind contour and continous-line contour in their sketchbook. These made for some awesome, expressive drawings! 

Finally, students were asked to pick an image of choice and choose 1/3 contour line drawing techniques to draw their image with. For a challenge, students were asked to consider using different drawing media; this way, there is less room for the possibility of erasing and less time to worry about a "perfect" artwork.  

For day 3, Katie led a lesson regarding the six different kinds of facial expressions! Students were asked to create zines, each page depicting a different facial expression after some initial sketchbook practice. As a teaching team, we thought it would be cool to introduce the basics of drawing/creating a figure/character. Carly taught some foundational figure drawing basics, I taught the different line work approaches that can be applied to figure drawings (or any drawing), and Katie delved into drawing some personality into these figures with facial expression basics.