Drawing

Writing/Reflection for our first major drawing- a modified contour drawing of your hand.

First, students were asked to score themselves on a scale of 0-4 (4 being highest) on each of the five perceptual skills needed for drawing, as well as how much better they think their drawings have been getting.

• Perception of Edges
• Perception of Spaces (composition)
  
• Perception of Relationships (proportions)
• Perception of Values (shading)
• Gestalt (Wholeness, One-ness, finished-ness)
• Improvement

Then the students were asked a number of short-answer questions. The first three pertained to the process of creating the artwork. The second four have to do with the finished product, the drawing itself, using the 4 steps in Art Criticism.

1. Did you lose tack of time?
2. Did the drawing at some point become interesting to you? (Captivating/Intriguing?)
3. Did you experience any distraction from your (left hemisphere) verbal mode? If so, how did you escape it?
   
   
4. In 10 words or less, simply describe your drawing. (This question focuses on the Sensory Elements of Design; line, shape, space, shading, etc. Description is pretty low on Bloom's Taxonomy of critical thinking skills.)
5. What about your drawing will capture and maintain a viewer's attention? (This questions forces them to analyze their artwork, analysis is a little higher up Bloom's Taxonomy, and this pushes them into considering the Formal Principles of Design)
6. What does you drawing make you think of? What do you think it will make viewers think of? How do you think viewers will feel if they look at it for a long time? What is the mood of your drawing? What would you title your work? Write a poem to accompany your work. (this series of questions have the students interpreting their own work, another step up the taxonomy, this one more imaginative and reflective, but more subjective.)
7. What grade do you believe you deserve on this assignment and why? (This question involves using judgment/self-assessment, but forces them to articulate their reasoning. They already have criteria with the 0-4 rating system that they started with.)