| #1 "Typography Tester" - Fill the page with a variety of lettering styles.
- Be creative! Find a poem - a favorite song - a list of favorite sayings - your favorite things -
- Perhaps start with pencil (very light) then move to markers or colored pencil
- Perhaps divide your page into separate shapes, perhaps use borders
Must do's: - Include color
- Fill the page
- Have five or more styles
#2 PEN & INK STROKES I There are seven basic strokes used to shade with pen and ink. In your sketchbook, use a minimum of five different types of strokes to shade from black to white. Fill the page. Try to go from light to dark in the sections. The areas can be any shape; they don't have to be rectangles. - Contour Lines: Contour lines are marks that precisely follow the curves and planes of an object.
- Parallel Lines: Parallel lines are straight marks that extend in the same direction. Sketched free-hand, the lines need not have ruler straight perfection.
- Crosshatching: Crosshatching consists of two or more sets of contour or parallel lines that are stroked in different directions and intersect.
- Stippling: Stippling is a grouping of dots.
- Scribble: A scribble line is a free flowing (but controlled) mark that loops and twists in a sketchy manner.
- Wavy Lines: Wavy lines are drawn side by side in a repetitive pattern
- Crisscross Lines: Crisscross lines flow with the contour of an object and are arranged in a staggered crossing manner.
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#3 "Pencil Shading" Fill the page with overlapping shapes that run off the page on all sides. No pos/neg spaces larger than a fist print. Fill each pos/neg space with smooth pencil gradations (from light to dark). The Shading Do-Nots: - Do not shade with the side of your pencil.
- Do not smear the drawing with your finger or a tissue.
- Do not start out too dark - you can always get darker as you work.
- Do not use mechanical pencils. (Sorry- won't work!)
The Do's: - Do make a flat edge on the tip of your pencil lead by "coloring" a sharpened tip on a piece of scrap paper.
- Do shade in one direction only... then shad the opposite direction on top.
- Do shade from light layers to dark to avoid uneven transitions.
The color wheel:
Violet, Red-Violet, Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Orange-Yellow, Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green Green-Blue, Blue, Blue-Violet | #4 "Blind Contour with Color Wheel" - Using your black felt-tip (not roller-balls) do two blind contours of your teachers. Use two pages; draw one on each page.
- Using colored pencils, turn the most interesting of the two blind contours into a color wheel. The colors must flow in the order of the color wheel.
Be Creative! Design the entire page.
Perhaps use a floating rectangle behind as a way to unify.
The color can go on top or behind the contour figure.
Blend the color very carefully and smoothly.
You'll have to "make" some of the colors by carefully layering two colors on your page.
Maybe use some of the techniques you learned in some of your other sketchbook assignments. |
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#5 "Bottle Landscapes" Everyone knows that things that are further away from us look smaller. But what if you can't rely on size to tell the story? This assignment uses plastic bottles, which can be any size. How do you make a big detergent bottle look like it's sitting behind a little eyedrops bottle? - Things that are partially covered by another object are seen as being behind the object: (overlapping)
- Things that are further away are drawn higher on the picture plane. Their bases (bottoms) will be placed higher on the page than the bottles that are supposed to be closer.
Assignment: Take one bottle at a time to your table, and do a contour line drawing of it, starting anywhere on your page. Then do the same thing with another bottle. Fill your page with overlapping bottle shapes. Bottles that are meant to be in front must have a base that is lower on the page than the object that is behind it. Warning: If the bottom of your front object is higher than the one behind it, your front object will appear to be floating in the air!
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