Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Choosing your meaningful object to draw

How to select objects:
1.     Read the IB learner profile traits and choose one that describes you.
https://drive.google.com/#search/learner%20profile
2.     Think about what object you could use to represent that trait. Example: a figurine of a bird to symbolize PRINCIPLED because you believe it is important to treat every living thing with respect.
3.     Bring in your object so that you can draw it.
Here are guidelines to help you make sure your object will work for the drawing:
1. Objects must be 3-dimensional. Meaning they MUST have length, width and depth.
NO PHONES ALLOWED! NO EXCEPTIONS.
2. Objects CANNOT be people/animals or pictures/photographs of people/animals.
3. Objects CANNOT be pictures/photographs of people/animals in action poses. For example   if you want to show balance you CANNOT  bring in a photo of a ballerina.
4. Students are not allowed to draw from a drawing/print. Again objects must be 3-dimensional.
5. If these guideline are not followed your grade will be affected.
Things to do when you are ready to draw:
  1. Make sure you are using the drawing paper that is provided (not hole punched paper). The punched paper that we do bell work on is NOT drawing paper.
2.     Make a contour line drawing of your object first.

3.     After you have all the lines in your drawing you are ready to start adding values or shading. Remember to use a regular pencil to shade, NOT a mechanical pencil.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Negative Space Drawing

Negative space - the spaces around an object, the spaces where an object is not.

For this project, each table received a vase with leaves in it (like the one below)

Students were to do a drawing of the NEGATIVE SPACES and then fill in those negative space with either pencil or charcoal.  


Here are some examples of negative space drawings that are similar to our assignment:
http://williara.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/negative-space-plant-drawing/
http://mschangart.weebly.com/design/negative-space-drawing-examples


http://benjaminclancy.com/visual-art/drawing/postitivenegative-space-drawing/





Contour Line Drawing Tutorial

If you missed one or more of our classes on contour line drawing, check out this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9sUWLfGng



Also, look at my Pinterest board for examples of contour line drawing.

http://www.pinterest.com/sarahtietjesabi/drawing/


You should have turned in basic contour line drawing of your hand  like the one shown here on:
8/14 (4C)
8/15 (8N)
http://drawsketch.about.com/od/drawinglessonsandtips/ss/contourdrawing_5.htm




You should have turned in contour line drawing of your hand WITH hatching like the one shown here on:
8/26 (4C)
8/27 (8N)
http://sage8.deviantart.com/art/Hatched-Hand-211033972