Parents! Please go by your child's interim grade for the moment.
We have a project that will be posting to Home Access in the next couple of days that is making the current grade in the class inaccurate.
Thank you.
Check here for a recap of what we do in the studio - assignments, prompts, rubrics, and essential deadlines.
UPDATE: Grades are up to date and accurate for PERIODS 2 AND 5. I am planning to enter Period 1 either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Parents! Please go by your child's interim grade for the moment. We have a project that will be posting to Home Access in the next couple of days that is making the current grade in the class inaccurate. Thank you.
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These sketches, and the finished painting, were for a book called Vampire Earth. A science fiction book about Alien Vampires, the post apocalypse, and burnt out gas stations. If you would like to check out more of Greg Manchess's work, and you should, as well as read HIS thoughts on the sketching process, follow any of the links below:
MUDDY COLORS (it's the illustration collective the Manchess is a part of - lots of other AWESOME artists on here as well) The Satan Factory (book from Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic) - a TON of sketches to look at. The Sky People - another sci-fi yarn. LOTS of sketches here too. Dress Your Marines in White - a faster image, less thumbnails, but great insight into why they're important. The Mongolian Wizard - a steampunk-ish fantasy yarn, so different style is used. Also, it's a MONTAGE. Enjoy! On Wednesday, we talked about some things called the DESIGN CLICHES. These are simply design tricks and tools that you can use as an artist to alter, change, and play with how things look in your drawings. Also, for the sake of our little demo here, as well as our project, all of the design cliches made use of the three silhouette drawings that you created on Tuesday. Mine are below: Shapewelding
OverlapSize and ScaleCroppingSo that's it. Those are our DESIGN CLICHES. They are ways for you to control the composition and control the page, and the quick sketch below demonstrates all four of them in action at once.
The second skill in learning to draw is learning to see shapes. A shape is created when a line comes back to where it started. The importance of shapes in drawing lies with how good our brains are at immediately identifying them. This brings us to the main way that we will be working with shape - through SILHOUETTE. A Silhouette is the OUTSIDE edge (or OUTLINE) of an object. Check out the silhouettes below, and pay attention to how easy it is to identify them without seeing anything besides their outlines. Today, we discussed the ways that artists utilize balance in their artwork. Balance refers to how artists organize VISUAL WEIGHT on the page. Visual weight is the STUFF you put in your artwork - all the subject matter, colors, marks, EVERYTHING. So it's important that we pay attention and follow some rules when we're putting all of that "stuff" down on the page. So let's get to it! First things first, when you look for Balance in artwork, divide the piece in half. Usually left to right, sometimes top and bottom, and every once and a while (when the artist just wants to watch the world burn) on a diagonal. Symmetry
Asymmetry
Approximate Balance
Radial Balance
For Monday.
Bring in three (3) objects from home that are:
Make sure your objects are school appropriate obviously. And make sure they have an interesting shape. If you don't have objects that you think fit the bill, or that you feel comfortable bringing in. I will have some available to work with. BRING 'EM MONDAY! Hi guys, this one is brief and to the point.
Yesterday we started your second graded project, Hand Drawings. We established the following as Goals and Criteria:
The steps to the hand drawing are as follows:
Remember that this is not an academic course where we cover something in one day and then you "know" it. In order to learn to draw, you have to do A LOT of repetition. To that end, you are to make TWO different drawings of your hand. You will turn the BEST one in tomorrow for a grade. See the link below for a copy of the Rubric and specific point values if you need to: CLICK ME! CLICK ME FOR THE RUBRIC! Hey guys! Today in class we talked about and practiced Blind Contour drawings. More about the image to the left, below. But first... BLIND CONTOUR Blind contour drawings follow the following rules:
We talked about the importance of building discipline and focus with our Blind contour drawings - the ability to focus on a single task completely, and without interruption. This type of focus and concentration is SUPER IMPORTANT when learning to draw, and will benefit you in all areas of your life. Ultimately we discussed that the goals of Blind Contour Drawings are the following:
The contemporary painter, Robert Burden has some beautiful examples of blind contour drawing on his website, found at the link below: http://www.robertburden.com/#draw_blind.html Burden does some pretty amazing large scale (BIG) paintings of 1980's action figures elevated to heroic and iconic status. But he also does wonderfully loose and free blind contour drawings of them as well, so I'll go ahead and toss a few into a slideshow below: Hey guys! Today we're talking about EDGES. Learning to see and identify edges is the first step in learning how to drawing things accurately from the REAL WORLD. First, a definition. An EDGE is where one thing ENDS, and another thing BEGINS. Edges are important in drawing because we show EDGES with LINES. Take a look through the photos below and see if you can identify all the different edges in each one. Hey guys! This past week in class we dove into our first real drawing assignment - the Master Copy. Master copies have been completed by artists for years, and they are a great way to build dexterity and accuracy before moving into drawing from observation. In class, we started with Picasso's drawing of Igor Stravinsky. See below, and follow the link for a copy of the reference. PICASSO LINK! With this drawing, we established that drawing is COPYING WHAT YOU SEE. We also stated that this drawing is not a man sitting in a chair, it is MANY LINES. A man sitting in a chair with a weird nose, and crossed hands, and wrinkled clothes is full of all kinds of hard questions:
When we look at the drawing as LINES, we find that lines are much easier to deal with. Lines have four qualities:
When you approach the drawing with these line qualities in mind, you will find much easier questions:
When you ask yourself these questions, you will find that while the drawing is still challenging to complete, it is much more approachable. Kind of like Dorothy pulling back the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. You were given a choice of three different drawings to complete for your final Master Copy. Links for each of the drawings may be found below, as well as a copy of the Rubric. RUBRIC! SEATED WOMAN by Egon Schiele HORSE AND RIDER BATMAN by Adam Kubert |
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