BRING TO CLASS: 
Assignment 1 - Baseline Drawing | Sketchbook 1 - Meet the Artist

Contour and Perception: Edge Recognition, Contour Drawing, and Line Texture and Line Weight.

Check-in: Questions or issues

ACTIVITY: Still Life / 3x – 1 Minute / 1x – 5 Min

SKETCHBOOK CRIT: Meet the Artist pages

  • What is something you have in common with your classmates?  
  • What do you find interesting or unexpected about your classmate?

Discuss: READING Learning to See Left Brain vs. Right Brain
Sharing our right & left brain activities

ACTIVITY: Vases vs. FACES
Discuss successful strategies to solve this drawing problem:

  • Comparison
  • Focusing on one area at a time
  • Measuring

ASSIGNMENT 1 CRIT: House from Memory vs. House from Observation
Drawing as an Exercise in Perception:  

  • How accurate were you?  
  • Which drawing feels more like where you live?

Lecture: The 5 Perceptual Skills of Drawing: Perception of Edges

Resource: Design Fundamentals

ACTIVITY: Contour Line Studies – Shoes off!

  • Blind Contour Drawing
  • Continuous Contour
  • Contour Drawing

Lecture: Line Quality

ACTIVITY: Three Approaches to Line Weight

Vocabulary:

Contour line:

  1. An outline that defines the edges of a form or shape.
  2. A line drawn on a topographic map to indicate ground elevation or depression.

DUE NEXT WEEK: