26-Oct | Week 9

Drawing Depth

Warm up Activity: 

Quick Studies :   5 minutes objects 

Choose an object from the prop shelf.

In 15 minutes draw it 3 times:

• Once as a blind contour drawing.
• Once by drawing the silhouette of the object, focusing on the negative space around it.
• Once using your strongest observation and measuring skills and beginning the drawing by finding the midpoint.

YOU MAY CHANGE UP THE POINT OF VIEW!

Midterm Drawing Critique 

• As a group Discuss:

Which drawings feel more successful? Why?

Review: Drawing a still life: Hierarchy, Overlap, & Proportion

Lecture :  Creating the Illusion of Depth in a Drawing

 

 

1. SIZE (Perspective)

 

2. PLACEMENT (Relationship to HORIZON LINE)

 

3. LINE WEIGHT

 

4. 3-D vs. 2-D

 

5. SHADOW

 

6. CONTRAST

 

7. OVERLAP

 

8. DETAIL

 

9. HARD v.s SOFT CONTOURS

 

For extra help check out this Tutorial on these strategies !

 

 

Activity:  ILLUSTRATE THE WAYS TO CREATE DEPTH IN A DRAWING.

DO THIS IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK!

 

Activity:  Landscape from imagination.

DO THIS IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK!