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14th Week | DEC 7

December 7, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Bring to Class: Drawing Assignment 11 | FINAL Portfolio | FINAL Sketchbook

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

CATCH-ALL CRIT: Critique our Kitchen Drawings and any other work that hasn’t been peer-reviewed.

DISCUSS: Final Project, we will review your sketches, source materials, and drawings. This is an opportunity to get your classmates’ feedback before moving on to the final image.

WORK on the final project in class.

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Final Project: The final drawing is due, along with the pre-visualization materials you used to create it.

13th Week | NOV 30

November 30, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Bring to Class: Assignment 11 | Sketchbook 11

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

ACTIVITY: Final Figure Drawing! In addition to drawing the model as we see them, we will try different drawing approaches:

Continuous Contour
Drawing ONLY the shadows
Drawing the negative space

Drawing times:

6x – 30 seconds
5x – 1 minute
BREAK
2x – 3 minutes
3x – 5 minutes
BREAK
2x –10 minutes
BREAK
1x – 20 minutes

DISCUSS: Final Project

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Sketchbook: Finish any remaining assignments for your FINAL SKETCHBOOKS
Drawing Assignment: Finish any remaining assignments for your FINAL PORTFOLIO
Final Project: Bring in sketches, source materials, and drawings to work on in class.

FINALS

November 29, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Final Project- Due December 14th:

This will be due on the final day of class.

PDF here:

FINAL-PROJECT Download

Final Sketchbook- Due December 7th:

Be sure you have completed all previous weeks’ sketchbook prompts and feel free to include additional sketches.

Final Portfolio- Due December 7th:

This is a curated portfolio of 5-7 DRAWINGS of your best work. This can be homework assignments or in-class drawings, but they must be NEW OR IMPROVED from the pieces selected at mid-term.

Take this as an opportunity to improve drawings. Go with quality over quantity. Be sure the work looks neat – presentation counts!

The work MUST be bundled together, either in a portfolio ( like this option) or an envelope. Be sure your name is on your portfolio.

I will NOT accept LOOSE PAPERS.

12th Week | NOV 16

November 16, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Bring to Class: Assignment 11 | Sketchbook 11

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

Discuss: Go over last week’s class, review perspective

MASH-UP CRIT: Place any work that has yet to be critiqued on the wall. Each student will choose another student’s work and speak to the following:

What is one thing the artist did effectively?
What is something appealing about the drawing?
What advice would you offer to improve the drawing?

ACTIVITY: Drawing the Halls
Take your drawing pad or sketchbook into the halls of City Tech and find an area that exemplifies perspective. Make sure this area covers some distance and your drawing can include objects in the foreground, middle ground, and background. Aim to represent depth and space through value and line weight.

Draw this scene from life for 40 minutes and return to class.

ACTIVITY CRIT: Share your hallway drawings and discuss.

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Sketchbook – Week 11: One-Point Perspective Plans
Drawing Assignment – Week 11: View to a Kitchen

11th Week | NOV 9th

November 8, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Bring to Class: Assignment 9 & 10 | Sketchbook 9 &10

WARM UP: Morning Still Life of cubes, until 8:30 am

SKETCHBOOK 9 + 10 CRIT: Armature in Action & Line of Action

Round 1:

Lay your sketchbook on a table, opening it to an ARMATURE IN ACTION sketch.
Then, go to the blackboard and write the name of the action you drew.
Before critiquing each sketch, guess which action is being illustrated.

Round 2:

Lay your sketchbook on a table, opening it to a LINE OF ACTION sketch.
Then, go to the blackboard and write the name of the action/type of pose you drew.
Before critiquing each sketch, guess which action is being illustrated.

ASSIGNMENT 9 + 10 CRIT: Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner & Power Poses
Hang your drawings side by side so they can be critiqued simultaneously.

Video: Perspective Drawing – Play this video at 1.5 speed

Discuss: One-Point Perspective

Vocabulary:

Horizon Line:
The viewer’s eye level or where the sky meets the water or land.
When inside, it could be where the wall meets the floor.

Vanishing Point:
The place where something moves so far away from your view that it just vanishes. If it is a road, with parallel lines, it is finally where they vanish creating the illusion of them intersecting.

ACTIVITY: If time, start sketchbook homework.

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Sketchbook – Week 11: One-Point Perspective Plans
Drawing Assignment – Week 11: View to a Kitchen

11. View to a Kitchen

November 8, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Using your 18″x 24″ drawing pad and charcoal, draw your kitchen, in perspective, from life. We should see at least two walls and have a clear idea of where the horizon line is. Render using value to the best of your ability!

TIPS:

STEP BACK to capture as much of the room as possible. Don’t just use your camera lens to zoom out, as it uses a fish-eye-like lens and is distorted.
Try CHANGING UP THE HORIZON LINE. You can stand on a chair for a more birds-eye view, or try sitting on the floor to get an “ants-eye” view.
ADD UNIQUE DETAILS like appliances, utensils, spices or groceries, or even fridge magnets, etc. While this is a drawing about perspective, it is also an opportunity to show off your home’s personality and warmth!
Try including a FOREGROUND, MIDDLE GROUND, and BACKGROUND to help with perspective. Use OVERLAP and VALUE to help indicate objects that are closer or further away to the viewer.

10th Week | NOV 2

November 2, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Bring to Class: Assignment 9 - Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner | Sketchbook 9 - Armatures in Motion

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

Lecture: Figure Drawing – Gestural

ACTIVITY: Live Figure Drawing
Today we are so lucky to have a live model in class!

Because of this, we will forego our class format and just do as much drawing as we can. We will resume critiques and activities next week.

8x – 30 seconds
5x – 1 minute
BREAK
3x – 3 minutes
4x – 5 minutes
BREAK
2x / 3x – 20 minutes

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Sketchbook – Week 10: Line of Action
Drawing Assignment – Week 10: Power Poses

10. Power Poses

November 2, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Using your 18″x 24″ drawing pad and charcoal, draw a FULL BODY FIGURE in a dynamic pose. Use value and lighting to convey the forms.

What makes a pose dynamic? We should see action, movement, or interesting shapes in the human form. You can stage your own, or look at performers or athletes for ideas.

TIP: Try for poses that create triangles, whether it’s in the posing of the body or the negative space around the pose.

9th Week | OCT 26

October 26, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Bring to Class: Nothing! Mid-terms & sketchbooks will be handed back.

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

ACTIVITY: Story Time
Using charcoal and newsprint, draw blank three panels. You will be creating a story through three images, drawn from objects and people you observe within the classroom. Place them in any order to create your own narrative.

One image must be a drawing of your classmate from life.
One must be an image of an object.
One must be a drawing of a part of the environment/room.

When we finish we will present our stories!

15 min Break

Lecture: Figure Drawing – Structural

ACTIVITY: Shapes & Armature

Draw the figure as shapes
Draw the figure as armature
Draw a live model as shapes
Drawn live model as armature

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Sketchbook – Week 9: Armature in Motion
Drawing Assignment – Week 9: Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner

9. Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner…

October 26, 2023 / Lara Antal / 0 Comments

Except for today…

Using your 18″x 24″ drawing pad and charcoal, draw a FULL BODY figure drawing from a live model or reference you stage yourself. The figure must be posed in a corner and you must draw the environment surrounding them.

Use a full range of values and a light source to create interesting shadows.

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14th Week | DEC 7

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13th Week | NOV 30

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FINALS

Final Project- Due December 14th:

Final Sketchbook- Due December 7th:

Final Portfolio- Due December 7th:

12th Week | NOV 16

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11th Week | NOV 9th

Vocabulary:

DUE NEXT WEEK:

11. View to a Kitchen

10th Week | NOV 2

DUE NEXT WEEK:

10. Power Poses

9th Week | OCT 26

DUE NEXT WEEK:

9. Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner…

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