Professor Lara Antal | COMD1123, D038 | Fall 2023
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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Introductions To Class and Instructor
ACTIVITY: The Exquisite Corpse
Each group discusses:
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
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
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.
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:
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
Reading Week 1
Pages 28 – 47
Reading Week 2
Pages 48 – 65
Do the “Upside Down Drawing” exercise on Page 57.
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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
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.
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