Category: Course Activities (Page 3 of 3)

BRING TO CLASS:
Assignment 3 - Positive & Negative Plants | Sketchbook 3 - Close-up Comps

Measuring & Proportions

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

SKETCHBOOK 3 CRIT: Close-up Comps
Break into groups and review pages. Identify a single composition from each of your classmates and copy (and label!) this design into your own sketchbook. Use simple shapes — it’s not about replicating, this is a schematic for a good layout.

ACTIVITY: Eye Exam Drawings

• Blind contour drawing of a classmate
• Continuous contour drawing of the same classmate
• Contour drawing of classmate’s eye, just one! Be as accurate as possible.

ASSIGNMENT 3 CRIT: Positive & Negative Plants

15 min break

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

Activity: Sighting

• Viewfinder Grid
• Find midpoint
• Plumb & Level
• Measurement:
  – Using your thumb and your pencil, choose a basic unit for your composition. Now sketch your composition, using this basic unit as your frame of reference for relative size.

DUE NEXT WEEK:

• Sketchbook – Week 4: Take-home quiz due in your sketchbook in 2 weeks
• Drawing Assignment – Week 4: Self-Portrait Through Objects
• Reading – Porpotions: Taking the Measure of Things

EXTRA CREDIT:

Yoshitaka Amano  - The Birth of Myth | 神話誕生 
Lomex Gallery
86 Walker, 3rd Floor | 89 Walker, #2R

Check out this exhibition before it closes on October 28th.

Bring your sketchbook and take notes on various things we discussed in class. Examples:

• Sketch out composotions that you feel are strong.
• Make contour drawings of the artworks, either the whole piece or various details.
• Write your thoughts on spacial relations, use of perspective, etc.

Share what you observed with the class!

BRING TO CLASS: 
Assignment 2 - Contour Hands| Sketchbook 2 - Very Boring Things

Space, Depth & Composition

WARM UP: Morning Still Life

Discuss: Last week’s Blind, Continous, and Contour shoe drawings.

SKETCHBOOK CRIT: Very Boring Things
Break into groups, review each other’s sketchbook, share one page

• What details did you find you hadn’t noticed, or found surprising?
• What were some ways you tried to make the boring object more interesting?

Discuss: READING Learning to See Left Brain vs. Right Brain
Sharing our right & left brain activities, upside-down drawings.

ASSIGNMENT 2 CRIT: Contour Drawing of Hands

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

Video: Surface & Depth

ACTIVITY: Make a View Finder
ACTIVITY: Traced Contour Drawing using Plexi Glass

Lecture: Composition

Video: Rule of Thirds

ACTIVITY: Frame a composition

Use your View Finder to frame a composition. Carefully consider your picture plane. Look at your view from multiple points of view. Be the composer of a unique composition that you find visually compelling.

DUE NEXT WEEK:

• Sketchbook – Week 3: Close-up Comps
• Drawing Assignment – Week 3: Positive & Negative Plants
• No Required Reading