2/9/12 Basic Drawing

Today's Class- Today we continued our study of line, completing a series of exercises involving gesture drawing and negative space.

How to make this up- The class started with a short exercise involving gesture drawing from plants. Next was an exercise in pure negative space drawing, where students drew all the spaces within a wooden chair. Finally, we applied the concept of negative space to a more practical application, a still life drawing of bottles. Full directions for these exercises and student examples of each can be found here.

These are portfolio exercises and must be made up by the midterm portfolio collection in order to receive full credit.

Homework- Arrange 4 bottles of similar size (four wine bottles, four water/soda bottles, four perfume bottles, etc) on a table, relatively near each other. Draw the set up on a page in your sketchbook, using pencil line, to the level of detail in the image above. Leaving the bottles exactly where they are, move to another position and draw the 4 again. Move one more time and draw it a third time, for a total of 3 drawings of the 4 bottles. (if you would prefer, put the four bottles on something that can move, and rotate the set up without disturbing the bottles between drawings) Pay attention to the shape of individual bottles, the proportion of one to the next, and the spacing between them.

For next class 2/16/12- We will continue to work with line, dealing with some approaches to perspective. Bring your 18" x 24" pad, pencils, and eraser.