Professor Lara Antal | COMD1123, D038 | Fall 2023

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2. Contour Hands

Drawing Assignment - Week 2

Draw a Page FULL of Hands 18 x 24 Strathmore Drawing Paper

Use a variety of line weights to describe the forms.  Compose the page.  Consider how the forms interact with each other.  Try different poses.  Try holding objects.  Create a drawing with is uniquely your own.

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1st Week | AUG 31

Welcome to Foundations Drawing: Course Overview

Introductions To Class and Instructor

ACTIVITY: The Exquisite Corpse 
Each group discusses:

  • What is your previous experience with drawing?
  • What is one thing you really like to draw?
  • What is something you are passionate about?
  • What is one thing you’re so good at you feel you could teach it to someone else?

Share your exquisite corpse drawings. Each Student introduces another member of their group with one fact about them.

Discuss: Syllabus & Requirements

Lecture: Perception & Drawing

Video: Lion King – Character Design

Lecture: Sketchbook Practice

Introduce: The idea of Left brain vs. Right brain

ACTIVITY: Drawing From Memory- Draw your home

Optional Supply Trip

Vocabulary:

Perception: The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

synonyms: recognition, awareness, consciousness, realization, knowledge, grasp, understanding.

Practice:
1. Perform an activity or exercise a skill repeatedly or regularly in order to improve or maintain one’s proficiency.

2. Carry out or perform (a particular activity or custom) habitually or regularly.

synonyms: rehearse, run through, go over/through, work on/at

DUE FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. Share a task in your daily life that is right-brain controlled. Explain why you think so.
2. Share a task in your daily life that is left-brain controlled. Explain why you think so.

1. Baseline Drawing 

Drawing Assignment - Week 1 

Using the charcoals and conté crayons on 18″ x 24″ newsprint paper, complete a drawing of your house from observation at your highest level of skill. 

TIPS:

  • Try not to LOOK at the paper for too long.  Focus on the subject!
  • SPRAY the drawings with Workable Fixatiff Spray when complete so it doesn’t smudge! 

Drawing Assignments

Students are required to keep a portfolio of their drawings, both those done in class and done for homework. 

Projects given as Drawing Assignments are due at the beginning of class and must be hung up for critique upon arrival ; otherwise they are considered late.

Portfolio Requirements:

  • A minimum of 4 hours per assignment
  • Use 18″ x 24″ sketch or drawing paper
  • Assignments must be labeled and dated
  • Drawings must be hung up for critique at the start of each class

Welcome!

Welcome to COMD 1123, Foundation Drawing.

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Sketchbook Practice

Students are required to draw a minimum of 2 hours (30 min per page) for a total of 4 sketchbook pages per week. However, students may draw more than the 4 required pages.

The sketchbook should also be used to keep relevant notes. Students are encouraged to illustrate concepts and vocabulary from class.

Sometimes a theme will be supplied, if no theme is supplied just draw from careful observation of the world around you.

Sketchbook requirements:

  • 4 pages per week, at least 2 hours worth of work
  • Pages must be dated
  • Notes and drawings must reflect the weekly topic
  • No pages can be ripped out

2. Very Boring Things

Sketchbook - Week 2

This week’s sketchbook theme is… Very Boring Things!

Consider the BORING everyday things you use in your life.  Brushes, Dental Floss, Toilet paper, Can Openers, Hair Gel, Spoons… All of the THINGS that you handle and use without thinking about them.

Fill 4 sketchbook pages with drawings of at least 8 objects. This is an exercise in observing detail.

TIPS:

  • What makes the design of this object unique from others like it? What shapes, textures, patterns, or branding are specific to this object?
  • Try drawing the object from unexpected angles to make it more interesting.
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