9/27/13 Basic Drawing

Today's Class-  Today we talked about using perspective in drawing.  I demonstrated one and two point perspective on the board, but we spent most of the class doing exercises in a natural perspective, observing angles, negative spaces, and relative positions to try to locate all the objects in a still life to the same logical space and plane.

How to make this up-  The class did two still life drawings, each for about half the class period.  One used just boxes of the same type, while the second added some cylindrical forms (various cans) to the set up.  Each was drawn with pencil line on a sheet of your 18" x 24" pad.  The specifics of the assignment and other examples can be found here.

These are portfolio exercises, and must be made up by the first half portfolio review in order to receive full credit.

Homework-  You will need a box with a large flat side (such as a cereal or cracker box) and lay it down flat.  Then find 3 medium sized bottles, which will all be laid down on the still life- one with the mouth facing toward you, one laying pointing to the right or left, and one at a diagonal.  One of those bottles should be placed on top of the box, the other two in front of it. Sketch with pencil line on a page in your sketchbook.  Then switch the bottle on top for one of the others facing a different direction and sketch the set up again. Then switch the top bottle for the one in the third direction and draw, to in the end you'll have three pages of sketches, each with the bottle on top facing a different direction.

For next class 10/4/13-  We will finish up our study of line with a still life of mixed objects, our first individually graded project of the semester.   Bring your 18" x 24" pad, pencils, and erasers.  Be on time- the later you arrive, the less time you'll have to work on the drawing.