WEEK 2 – Classwork & Materials

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)