9/13/13 Basic Drawing

Today's Class-  Today we began our study of line.  I showed a few dozen slides of historical art, from cave paintings to the 20th century, explaining the ways the artists used line and the effects it had in each piece.  After that, the class did a series of exercises in contour line drawing, using shoes as the subject.

How to make this up-  Find yourself a shoe, one that's closed works best (sneaker, dress shoe, boot, etc, but stay away from sandals and flip flops).  Use your 18" x 24" pad and your choice of pencils (if you like, try different ones to see how they work).  You may draw more than one shoe on the page (as in the above student example) and even use the back of the page if you like.  You'll be doing a series of contour line exercises.  The specific instructions and details, as well as photos of student examples, can be found here.

Homework-  More shoes.  Using your small sketchbook, and pencil of your choice, draw 10 shoes, one per page, so that each more or less fills the page.  You may do 10 drawings of the same shoe, or a variety of shoes.  Do the following sketches, similar to what we did during class:

8 pages of exterior contour line shoes
1 cross contour shoe drawing
1 full detail line shoe drawing

For next class 9/20/13-  We will continue our study of line.  Bring your 18" x 24" pad, pencils, eraser, and sketchbook homework.