Sketchbook Assignments Assigned Wednesday, October 19.
Due Thursday, October 27.
*Note: This work is to be completed in class and at home from the day it was assigned until its due date. Please sign and date each drawing as you work. Also, Write how long it took you to complete each drawing (on the assignment sheet or the back of the drawing). Each student was given a sketchbook of drawing paper. If you have misplaced yours, replacements may be purchased at Office Depot.
- A close up of the various pieces from a game, the board, box, or a deck of cards "in play"
- A grouping of 3 or more small similar objects (shells, keys, candy, pencils)
- A pile of dishes sitting in the sink or stacked in the cabinet
- Your favorite food with the wrapper included and product showing
- A close up set of 3-5 pieces of popped popcorn
- Your sunglasses and what they reflect
- Your digital camera or phone at an angle with a photo showing on the display
- Your schoolbooks positioned in an interesting manner
- Draw the inside of your closet
- Draw the contents of your refrigerator
- Draw yourself in a mirror
- Draw what is in the rear-view mirror of your car
- Lie on floor level, draw what is eye level
- Shine a light through an open weave structure, draw the cast shadow
- Copy the Mona Lisa
- Rearrange the Mona Lisa to suit yourself
- Put Mona Lisa in a contemporary setting
- Make a detailed enlarged drawing of a dollar bill
- Crumple a sheet of notebook paper, draw it (lines and holes included)
- Crumple a magazine ad, draw it
- Crumple a photograph, draw it
- Crumple a drawing, redraw it crumpled
- Cut out a photo into small pieces, rearrange the photo in some other order, draw it
- Draw a portrait of you and your friends as cards; the queen, king, and jack of spades
- Make a drawing of all of your drawing materials
- Draw your portrait from the reflection of a shiny chrome object i.e. toaster, bowl, spoon
- Drape a mysterious object in cloth, draw it
- Draw a sleeping person
- Draw a person looking out a window
- Draw a detailed drawing of a nut and bolt.
More assignments will be given on Thursday, you may choose to complete more drawings in order to "get ahead" on your homework for next week.
Perspective Drawing:
Students will do quick sketches of one, two, and three-point perspective. Students will select one form of perspective and create a developed project based on their choice of perspective and subject matter.
Morphing Objects
Students have been provided a sketchbook and should be drawing images for the Morphing Objects project. Each student has been asked to list five objects they might use as references for their drawings. Students may gather real objects or pictures of objects as resources to observe while drawing. Drawings for this project should be intentional attempts at realism. This will be accomplished through a series of five drawings. Drawings in sketchbooks are developmental.
Students are beginning to create finished works of art from Morphing Objects studies. Students have been presented a variety of materials from which to choose. Drawing surfaces include: drawing paper, Bristol board, watercolor paper, and canvas board. Media choices include pencil, pen & ink, Prismacolor pencil, acrylic paint and other materials. Students are completing projects one of three ways: 1) finish all five sketchbook drawings, 2) represent five stages on one large page, or 3) select one of the stages and present it in context in finished work.
Student project plans:
- KD-a rose developing wings, transforming into a fairy - white drawing paper -Prismacolor
- JH-"a bird in the hand..." becoming a birdcage - Bristol board
- MK-a tree becoming a hand and arm holding the earth - white drawing paper - medium undecided
- NR-a grandfather clock morphing into a tree - white drawing paper - medium undecided
- QR-a nutcracker becoming a Union Jack -white drawing paper - pencil
- BS-a clock transforming into a turtle (Is time moving slowly?) - canvas board
- SS-a shoe transforming into... a peacock, possibly? (proud as a peacock) - changed to eagle - canvas board (Does this relate to morphing objects planning or is it a new project?)
