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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.

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
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• 2x – 3 minutes
• 3x – 5 minutes
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• 2x –10 minutes
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• 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.

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
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• 3x – 3 minutes
• 4x – 5 minutes
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• 2x / 3x – 20 minutes

DUE NEXT WEEK:

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

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

Bring to Class: Assignment 6 

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

ACTIVITY: Commute Drawing
Sketch something you remember from your commute: an image, fellow commuters, or the physical space you were in. Anything that stuck in your brain. Draw from memory to the best of your ability.

ASSIGNMENT 6 CRIT: Spooky Self-Portrait

15 min Break

Lecture: The 5 Perceptual Skills of Drawing: The Whole Form
Pass out the study guide.

ACTIVITY: Sketch a Skeleton

• Draw using only contour lines
• Draw skeleton & background
• Draw ONLY the negative space
• Draw ONLY the shadows on the form
• Draw from a toned paper

DUE NEXT WEEK:

• Sketchbook – Week 7: Very Scary Things!
• Review the Study Guide.

• MID-TERM SKETCHBOOK is due next week.
• MID-TERM PORTFOLIO is due next week.
  
  Prepare 5-7 DRAWINGS to hand in as your Mid-term portfolio. Make any adjustments or improvements to better the work (and your grade!)
  
  Must be handed in as a flat bundle: in a portfolio or envelope.