TODAY’S PLAN:
7-Sep | Week 2
Contour and Perception: Edge Recognition, Contour Drawing, and Line Texture and Line Weight.
DUE: Assignment 1 with Peer critique
NEW: Assignment 2 Contour Drawing, Sketchbook Practice Week 2
Today’s PLAN:
Work In Class:
Introduce Emphasis, Line Weight and Texture as compared to sounds in music.
Warm Up ACTIVITY: Marking Marks to music
Break into groups of 4: Listening to a sample of the music, each choose a sound and a type of mark to represent that sound. It helps to make these marks very distinct.
TEAM DRAW a visual representation of the music.
As a group Discuss:
How did you approach the challenge?
Did you choose to represent different parts of music using the same kind of marks as your classmates?
Line Texture and Line Weight – Line Quality Slides
Warm Up ACTIVITY: Can line have character? (30 min)
Sign your name 3 different ways and using 3 different kinds of line to express emotion.
Look at Meet the artist pages (30 min)
- As a group Discuss:
What is something you have in common with your classmate? What to you find interesting or unexpected about your classmate?
ASSIGNMENT 1 CRIT House from Memory vs. House from Observation
- As a group Discuss:
Drawing as an Exercise in Perception: How accurate were you? Which drawing feels more like where you live?
BREAK – (15 min)
DISCUSS READING Learning to See Left brain vs. Right Brain (30 min)
ACTIVITY as a group find Left Brain vs. Right Brain FAQs
The Parts of a Drawing : — Slides
- Composition, Value, and Contour
The 5 basic perceptual skills : — Slides
- The Perception of Edges
- The Perception of Spaces
- The Perception of Relationships
- The Perception of Light and Shadow
- The Perception of the Whole Form
Edge Recognition : Introduction to Contour Drawing — Slides
ACTIVITY: Vases vs. FACES
Discuss as a class drawing as an Exercise in Perception, then try to accomplish the task.
As a group Discuss: Successful strategies to solve this drawing problem.
LIST Observational Strategies such as: Comparison, Focusing on one area at a time, and Measuring.
4 Hand Studies (30 min)
- Blind Contour Drawing of your Hand
- Drawing from Continuous Observation
- Traced Contour Drawing of your Hand Using Plexi Glass
- Contour Drawing of your Hand
In class Assignment : Contour Drawing of your Shoes. (30 min) (HOPE YOU WORE CLEAN SOCKS.)
Close Class (15 min)