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Sept. 26-30: Contour Outline Drawing (sometimes called 'negative space drawing). Watch these three short videos and complete the drawings listed for this unit.
Drawings: 1. The spaces created by and surrounding a ladder. 2 Drawings, different points of view. 50 minutes total. 2. The spaces created by and surrounding a plant. 2 Drawings, different points of view. (Selective, using viewfinder 50 minutes total.) 3. The spaces created by and surrounding a chair. 1 Drawing, gradient shading in unoccupied space. (Block schedule, 85 minutes.) |
These videos cover some of the skills we use for these Contour Outline Drawing projects.
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Sept. 19-23: Blind Contour Drawing
Do the blind contour drawings as demonstrated in the video-- 3-5 minutes each, four or five drawings per page, drawing pictures of your non-dominant hand posing as each of the 26 letters in the American Sign Language alphabet.
By the time you reach 'S', you can begin to modify the blind contour drawing process by allowing a quick peek at your page. Allow one quick glance before you return your gaze to the hand you're drawing. As you continue, add another glance with each letter... So you can look once with S, twice with T, three times with U, and so on to Z.
Once completed, do two final drawings this way-- choose your favorite letter, whichever is the most visually interesting hand pose to you. Start out with a five minute blind contour drawing of that hand, peeking as many times as you like . Then step back a few feet and view the drawing from that distance, looking back and forth between the actual hand (still in its pose) and the drawing. Contrast and compare, notice differences in size, proportion, direction, etc... of the lines in the drawing as compared to real life. Then sit down and correct them. At this point, it is OK to erase, lift and move the pencil (instead of just working in one continuous line), and incorporate other details like shading and texture.
By the time you reach 'S', you can begin to modify the blind contour drawing process by allowing a quick peek at your page. Allow one quick glance before you return your gaze to the hand you're drawing. As you continue, add another glance with each letter... So you can look once with S, twice with T, three times with U, and so on to Z.
Once completed, do two final drawings this way-- choose your favorite letter, whichever is the most visually interesting hand pose to you. Start out with a five minute blind contour drawing of that hand, peeking as many times as you like . Then step back a few feet and view the drawing from that distance, looking back and forth between the actual hand (still in its pose) and the drawing. Contrast and compare, notice differences in size, proportion, direction, etc... of the lines in the drawing as compared to real life. Then sit down and correct them. At this point, it is OK to erase, lift and move the pencil (instead of just working in one continuous line), and incorporate other details like shading and texture.