9/20/13 Basic Drawing

Today's Class-  Today we continued our study of line, with a series of portfolio exercises addressing such concepts as gestural drawing and negative space.  

How to make this up-  Three different exercises were done today, each requiring a different subject.  First was an exercise in gestural drawing, working from an arrangement of curving bamboo branches.  Second was an exercise in pure negative space drawing in which the students drew the shapes of spaces in a wooden chair.  In the third exercise we applied the lessons of the second drawing to a practical drawing problem, a still life of bottles.  The specific information about how to set up your subjects and student examples of these exercises can be found here.

These are portfolio exercises that must be made up by the first half portfolio collection to receive full credit.

Homework-  We will continue with bottles and the issues explored in the last exercise of the day.  Set up four similarly sized bottles (four wine bottles, four soda bottles, four perfume bottles, etc)  on a table top with a little space between them.  Do a line drawing of the four on a page in your sketchbook, using  the pencil of your choice.  Leave the bottles in place, but move yourself to different viewing position around the table and draw it again on a new page.  Repeat two more times for a total of 4 drawings of the four bottles.  (or if you prefer, set up the 4 bottles on some kind of board or tray and rotate the whole thing, so the bottles maintain relative positions to each other but you see it differently each time)

For next class 9/27/13- We will continue with line, doing some exercises involving perspective.  Bring your 18" x 24" pad, pencils and eraser, and sketchbook homework.