Class Info

  • Date: 2/9/24

To-Do Before Class

  • Join this Openlab Site + Post yer assignments to the classes google folder in the appropriate folder or show the work in person next week
  • Purchase Supplies
  • Week 2 Reading + Assignments

Topic: Ideation > Thumbnails > Advanced Concept Sketches

Objectives

  • Knowing the illustration cycle, your role and those of others, we continue to develop our ideas and thumbnails in our quest to become idea-making machines. The concept of Date + Rate + Size + Usage should be a staple consideration for the professional Illustrator during the early phases of working out concepts with their clients. There is a focus of sketching during these first few weeks. This class leans into that with previous assignments and a focus on 4 basic pencil techniques: Hatching + CrossHatching + Stippling + Scumbling.

Activities

Discussion / Lecture:

  • Review reading
  • Thumbnails serving a purpose
  • Advancing thumbnails
  • Pencil Techniques
  • Composition

Sketchbook/Lab

  • Pencil Values: Testing our ability to transition form light to dark in various directions, keeping that movement free and not strained, and using it to work on other fundamental pencil techniques.
  • Creative Quilt: Using your ruler, INK even lines and rows to create a grid of squares. IN PENCIL, fill those squares with textures, patterns, items or designs. When penciling them, consider how you would ink them. Be diverse in your squares, turn the sketchbook in a different angles or choose random squares to make the quilt less of thought-out, linear and more abstract.

Due Next Week

SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENT #1: FIVE (5) ADVANCED THUMBNAILS

  • Pencil ONLY, meant for sketchbook • NOT computer/digital brush/drawing app-assisted
  • Choose a project / thumbnails from your 30 Thumbnails to advance
  • Provide 5 advanced thumbnails of the project, thinking EVERYTHING OUT.
  • The goal is not a finished drawing—use pencil techniques to advance concept.
  • SKETCHES SHOULD BE IN PENCIL & IN PROPORTION TO FINAL PRODUCT….not rhombuses or uneven shapes!!!

SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENT #2: CREATIVE QUILT

  • This assignment is a direct response to the part of to W3’s lecture about the 4 basic principles of pencil technique: STIPPLING + HATCHING + CROSS-HATCHING + SCUMBLING/ OTHER TECHNIQUES. DO NOT FILL IN WITH SOLID PENCIL OR SMUDGING! Use various techniques with varying line weight or markings to achieve value.
  • Pencil ONLY, meant for sketchbook • NOT computer/digital brush/drawing app-assisted
  • USING YOUR RULER, CREATE A GRID OF 5×7.
  • LEAVE SPACE BETWEEN SQUARES
  • EACH SQUARE SHOULD BE AT LEAST 1˝
  • Again. DO NOT FILL IN WITH SMUDGING OR SOLID PENCIL.

SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENT #3: ARTIST SELFIE

  • Pencil or Digital. This is meant to be a sketch/exploration of composition, not a finished piece. If done digitally, try to find a brush that mimics how a pencil would look and use that to practice trying our ideas. Be loose, gestural, leave room for exploration with your sketches that allows feedback and better ideas to be absorbed.
  • Reference a photo OF YOU (don’t pull from the internet) to create a fun image that goes far beyond what you see in the picture. Provide Reference Image as well as the the selfie. DO NOT OVERTHINK THIS!
  • This is where you take the lecture of Composition and thoughtfully apply those considerations when sketching out your Artist Selfie. Perhaps take a photo that references a work of art you like and explore how you can adapt their composition to suit your new vision using your photo reference.

READING:

WEEK 3 PRESENTATION HERE:

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