Overview

On white paper, make a black & white drawing from observation of your room.

Due Date

  • xxxx

Instructions

  • Choose a spot in your room where you like how your room looks.
  • On any clean white paper at least 8 1/2 x 11 inches, make a black and white drawing of your room AS YOU SEE IT.
  • Try to show what is in fronLt of what, how how much space there is between objects and how big something is compared to something else.Pay attention to the angles of things.
  • Pay attention to the angles of things.
  • Pay attention to design.
  • Upload this drawing to the Room Sketches to the Room Sketches category housed under Student Posts in OpenLab.

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand the Five Basic Components Skills of Drawing:
    • Perception of edges
    • Perception of spaces
    • Perception of relationships
    • Perception of lights and shadows
    • Perception of the gestalt
  • To be able to design the whole page

Resources

  • Excerpt from Drawing on The Right Side of The Brain by Betty Edwards
  • Recording class meeting [provide hyperlink] of [date xxxx]

Checklist

  • Have you drawn what you see or what you think you should be seeing?
  • Have you shown which objects are closer to you, and which are further?
  • Have you depicted all the sides of the objects that you can see, and not the sides you cannot see?
  • Have you paid attention to design, and are you using the whole page?
  • Have you uploaded your drawing to the Room Drawing category housed under Student Posts in OpenLab?
  • Have you made a comment and responded to a fellow student’s comment in Introductory Comments under Discussions in OpenLab?