Drawing I Final

*This final constitutes 10% of your Semester Grade

·         Create a self-portrait on 18x24 paper. At least 2/3rds of the drawing should be of your own face. At least 2/3 of your face should be shown.

·         Draw either a front-on portrait, or if you feel confident enough, a ¾ view

·         Please “prime” the page with a graphite background first, then use pencil, graphite, erasers, blending to create a realistic/photographic an image a possible.

·         Read Dr. Edward’s directions on pages 218-225 in our book.

·         Use a mirror for this main portion of the drawing. You may use photographs for secondary images included in the drawing, of yourself or of others.

·         2 inch margin.

·         You may pick them up anytime after when we get back from Christmas Break

DRAWING: Copy of a Courbet Self-Portrait

To get acquainted with the concepts of value, shading and "light-logic," Read pp. 194-204 in Chapter 10 of DRSB. Then focus in on and follow the directions found on pp. 200-204, copying Cobert's self portrait into your sketchbooks. DUE Monday, Dec. 8.

• Use shading, not line
• Make sure you have adequate density, contrast, and range
• You may want to draw it upside-down to engage your right-hemisphere mode of thinking
• You may use either figure 10-10 on page 203 or figure 10-3 on page 197, whichever you think would be more helpful

DRAWING; Profile Views

Read & Follow Directions on pp.181-186,

Tone a page in your sketchbook and draw someone's profile (side-view). Must be from real life, not a photo.

This can be a classmate, or if you were absent, a friend or family member who volunteers to model for you.

DUE Mon. Dec.1st

Drawing; A Warm-Up Exercise

If you haven't yet, be sure to read pp. 174-176 and take notes for yourself on correct placement and proportion rations for profiles.

Read and follow the directions on pp.178-180 in DRSB, to help you copy John Singer Sargent's profile of Mme. Gautreau (fig.9-23) into your sketchbook. Due Tues 11/25

Practice Drawing Facial Features in your Sketchbooks

The following should be in your sketchbook when they are collected Friday, Nov.21

• FROM THR NOV 13th- 3-7  (5 is fine) practice EYES.
• Must be from real life, no photos
• 2 may be your own (mirror)
• Get some left and some right
  
• FROM FRI NOV 14th- 3-7 (5 is fine) practice NOSES.
• Must be from real life, no photos
• 2 may be your own (mirror)
• Try to get some from slightly above looking down, some from as straight-on as possible, and some from just a little below, looking up

• FROM TUE NOV 18th- 7 practice MOUTHS.
• No more than 3 may be from photos (at least 4 must be from real life, 2 may be your own (mirror or photo).
• Try to capture a variety of expressions; smile, frown, bored, surprised, etc.
• At least 2 need to show teeth or be open

• FROM WED&THR NOV 19th&20th- 3-7  (5 is fine) practice EARS & HAIRSTYLES.
• Must be from real life, no photos
• Make sure ears are foreshortened (going away from you in space), these are for the portrait view of the face, not the profile view (where you'd see the whole ear)
• Try to capture a variety of hairstyles; long, short, straight, wavy, curly, spike, etc.

DRAWING: Hallway Perspective Drawing

"Real" Perspective Drawing- Read the directions in DRSB pp.152-155, on 18x24 newsprint pad, draw a realistic drawing of one of our school's hallways. This is a test to evaluate how well you're able to apply "sighting skills." Use a viewfinder, use a basic unit, have a 2" margin all the way around the page to represent the "format" of your plastic picture plane/picture frame viewfinder, lightly tone your page with graphite, be sure to use negative-space. Tentative Due Date: End of class Thursday 10/30 (but if needed, we may use Monday &/or Tuesday of next week too)

DRAWING- Perspective Practice

Read pp 146-151 in DRSB, then in your sketchbook, complete the following two drawings, be sure to use "sighting" to help you accurately gage angles and distances. Use a viewfinder, and draw within a format.

Due by end of class on Friday, Oct 24.

1) Draw a doorway from at least 10-15 ft away

2) Draw a corner of a room where the ceiling and two walls come together

DRAWING: Sketchbook assignment for TUES-WED, Oct 21-22, 2014

Read pp.142-145 in DRSB. Using your picture-plane viewfinder (as a sort of "Durer's Device), draw a format in your sketchbook, and draw a foreshortened view down your leg, like the one on the lower left corner of page 144.

DRAWING- Sketchbook Assignment MON Oct 20, 2014

Read pages 140-141 in 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." Experiment with sighting through a paper tube as shown in Figure 8-1 on p.140. Use a pencil to help you "sight" the angles of a table, as in figures 8-4 through 8-7 on page 141. Draw a table in your sketchbook, using this sighing method.

Drawing: Remember these

Concepts that help artists imagine subjects as 2-Dimensional and therefore easier to "copy:"

A) The Picture Frame; Selected area of space which limits the composition to a specific format. When observing (perceiving/viewing) a viewfinder can help. When drawing (recording/rendering), placing a margin around the page you're drawing on can help.

B) The Picture Plane; An imaginary plane (pane/facet) of 2-dimensional space a few inches in front of your face onto which artists imagine their subjects are flattened: so that instead of a model sitting several yards ahead with mountains several miles behind that, foreground, middle-ground and background are all just a flat picture, as if they're a photo, poster or already a drawing that the artist merely has to copy. Other things that help include closing one eye to reduce the interference your natural of stereo-optic depth-perception.

Review pages 98-101 in Edwards' 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' to help you further understand these concepts.



REVIEW- The 5 Perceptual Skills that make up the global skill of Drawing;

1) Perception of Edges, contours, frontiers between forms and spaces (deals mainly with the sensory element of line)
2) Perception of Spaces, not just figure/ground or foreground/background but placement and arrangement within a format or composition (deals especially with the sensory element of space, negative-space in particular, bur also with the general application of the formal principles of design)
3) Perception of Relationships, parts-to-whole and subject-within-context (deals with informal perspective, placement, and especially the formal principle of proportion)
4) Perception of Light & Shadows, shading and "light-logic" concepts like density, contrast, range, modeling, chiaroscuro (deals with the sensory element of value)
5) Perception of Gestalt, a sense of completion or closure, cohesion and "oneness." (deals mostly with the formal principles of unity and harmony)

DRAWING- Week of 8/25-29

MON 8/25

• DRSB pp.16-20
• Line as Language

TUES 8/26

"Studio Time" to work on signature-self portraits

WED 8/27

• "Show&Shine" Signature-Selfies
• Two Modes (DRSB p.44) Notes

THR 8/28

"Studio Time" to work on "My Two Brains" Collage

FRI 8/29

• Show&Shine My 2 Brains
• Flea-Sized Astronaut Profiles

Drawing

• Due Mon 8/25- Pre-Instructional Drawings
• A Chair
• Another person's face
• A human (the whole person, not just their face)
• A self-portrait (your own face)

Drawing Assignment

Please read & follow directions 1-15 for the "Modified Contour Drawing of Your Hand" found on pages 105-109 in out book.

We will work M-W in class & critique them on Thursday.

2nd Quarter Sketchbooks Due!

In case you're missing something, here's what should be in it from 2nd Quarter:

• Perspective Knee- Nov. 1
• Doorway from 10 ft away- Nov. 5
• Corner of a room from 10 ft away- Nov. 6
• Distorted Perspective Hand- Nov. 26
• 4 sketches of eyes- Dec. 3
• 4 sketches of noses- Dec. 4
• 5 sketches of mouths- Dec 5
• 4 sketches of ears- Dec. 6
• Portrait (front-view) of Classmate- Dec. 7
• Copy of Sargent's Profile of a woman (pg.179 in book)- Dec. 11
• Profile of Classmate- Dec. 13

If you are unable to find your sketchbook, unable to bring it by tomorrow, or missing most or all of these assignments, please let me know and I'll enter an incomplete on JMC and give you the opportunity to complete these drawings by the end of January.

DRAWING FINAL

• 18x24 Final Self Portraits Due beginning of class Thursday Dec. 20
• Written Final (aka Post-Test) Monday Dec. 17
• Sketchbooks due Thursday, Dec.13
• "A Warm Up Exercise" pp.178-180 (Sargent on p.179)
• Profile of a classmate- "Drawing another blank and getting a line on the profile" pp.173-177 (be sure to look at Fig.9-12 on pg.170)
• Portrait of a classmate- (was due Dec.7)
• Practice Features (was due Dec.6):
• 4 eyes
• 4 noses
• 5 mouths
• 4 ears 

Remember- those of you planning on taking Digital Photography, please register for an account on Flickr.com asap.

Face the Face

Drawing & Seeing Class has been learning about portraiture. Every day after taking notes on general guidelines for placement and proportion of facial features, I assign students to draw several features in their sketchbooks- Last Thursday were four eyes, Monday was four noses, five mouths yesterday, and four ears today. These are from my own sketchbook, which I used a mirror for.

DRAWING & SEEING this week

Remember, you can always check http://drawing-and-seeing.wikispaces.com/DRSB+009-+Ch.8+Sighting+Perspective for details and examples of this week's assignments.

You can also visit http://planbook.com/student?t=928417&k=maldog to see what's due and when in Mr. Mallory's classes.

• Monday, 11/5- Draw a corner of a room where the ceiling and two walls come together
• Tues-Fri Read pp 152-155, Prepare a page in your 18x24 newsprint pad with 2 inch margins, toned and with cross hairs. Then, follow Dr. Edwards directions and spend a week drawing one of the hallways in the school.
• We will critique the hallway drawings either Friday or Monday, depending on class progress.

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE GOALS OF THESE ASSIGNMENTS

Your drawings should have evidence that you...

• Chose & used a "basic-unit" to compare/comtrast/determine sizes and proportions
• Used a viewfinder and cross-hairs to help you compare/contrast/determine angles and perspectives. 
• FOCUS/Concentration/Effort/Professionalism/Left-to-Right Hemisphere Mode Shift- get in the zone!

Nothing

DRAWING CLASS; Especially when you're learning about how to perceive and depict negative-space!

Albrecht Durer

Here's another short video about Albrecht  Durer if you're interested.

BLIND CONTOUR LINE DRAWINGS

FOLLOW DIRECTIONS- Before beginning these exercises, be sure to read the directions on pages 89-91 of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (DRSB) and/or page 27 of the DRSB Workbook (handed out Mon. 9/10). Each of these exercises should be in your sketchbook and are worth 10 points each. Please but the time and date next to each one when you finish them.

As a class, we did exercises 1-3 together on Tuesday 9/11 and students did #4 on their own for homework. We will try to do exercises 5-7 in class together on Wed. 9/12

LET IT BE BAD! Don't tear them out of your sketchbook no matter how disappointed you are with any of them. This is about the PROCESS of perceiving and drawing edges- it is NOT about the finished product (of how well you can draw hands). That will come later. Keep these. 1. I need them as evidence of your improving perceptions, 2. you  may want them later in the semester as a point of comparison of how far you've come.

1. Interior (start from the inside and work out, focus on the lines and creases inside your palm and on your fingers) 5 Minutes (set a kitchen timer if you're working on your own, instead of  together in class).
2. Exterior (start from the outside and work in, in other words, focus on the outside contour of your hand). Its better to draw slowly and large, its okay if you don't get done- better to have 3 fingers carefully observed for every crack, wrinkle and nuance, than to have a complete hand that's too smooth, too perfect, or too small. 5 Min.
3. Exterior Left-Handed (This time, use your wrong-hand left for most of us to draw with and use your dominant hand as the model). 5 Min.
4. Interior/Exterior (go back to using your correct/dominant hand to draw with, but this time start from the inside-out and go on to try to draw the exterior contour too) Don't worry if they don't align. 7 Min
5. Classmate's Face Left-Handed (Wrong/Left handed) 5 Min.
6. Classmate's Face Right-Handed (Correct/Right handed) 7-10 Min.
7. "Modified" Contour Line Drawing of your hand (MCLD) (basically the same as #4, except that you should start from the exterior and this time you MAY look back- though only occasionally, at your sketchbook in order to make adjustments in placement & proportion so that the final product looks more accurate than a purely Blind Contour Line Drawing (BCLD) 7-20 Min