Original & Inspirational Free Drawing

Due Date May 29, 2015

Total points = 135 points

Objective: Artists will create an original work of art that communicates a story while using an influential drawing style.

Search for Inspiration: Web search and reference retrieval

Begin with a web search to find artists work that you find inspiring and wish to emulate. Print photos of their work for your sketchbook and to reference.

Use www.Behance.net and www.DeviantArt.com to get started.

Famous artists to check out:
M. C. Escher
Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Raphael
Van Gogh

Analyze Artist’s work: Print artwork, paragraph description (30 points)

Choose one of the artists that you were inspired by and write a paragraph in your sketchbook next to the printed artwork that visually describes what it is that you find intriguing about the work. Also describe how the particular details of the artist’s style more effectively communicate their story.

Brainstorming: Notes, sketches, descriptions (15 points)

In your sketchbook Jot down your own stories/ideas that you would like to try drawing for this assignment. What is it that you would like to communicate and how would this inspirational style aid in evoking that idea? Also include a statement that describes how your story/idea is original. Talk with your peers and instructor about your story/ideas for further development.

Concept Sketching: Sketches, minimum of two drafts (20 points)

Loosely sketch out a full sized rough draft of your idea. During this stage of the process your artwork will go through many revisions, so you will need to maintain malleability for further changes and refinement. Continue developing this with drawing until your final draft best communicates your story/idea.

Final Technical Study: Lighting, value, texture and technique (30 points)

Section off a small portion of your drawing and do a final technical shading study. Typically you want to do the area that you find to be the most technically challenging.

Final Drawing: (40 points)

Transfer your last draft onto your final paper using the light table or transfer paper. Once this is complete you will begin your final illustration. The following grading criteria will be used for this assignment:

Final Drawing Grading Criteria (10 points each)

Originality – Story/idea of artwork is original to the artists

Technical Craftsmanship – Technical quality of drawing.

Message – Story/idea visually communicates clearly.

Project Completion – Project was thoroughly completed, and on time.

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Teacher: Mr. Elmore

Course Title: Drawing

Lab Fee: $25.00-- Includes paper, colored pencils, charcoal, rulers, sharpeners, erasers and other basic materials

Course Description:

This course is designed for students to travel through and experience chronologically, pivotal periods of time in the evolutionary process of draughtsmanship. Beginning at the cave paintings of Lascaux, and on through ancient Egypt, the Renaissance and into contemporary art as we know it. It is the courses intention and hope that students learn to draw more effectively by paralleling human's natural evolutionary development of drawing.

Course Objectives

Students will learn

• To express and communicate concepts and emotions through creative visual products.

• To take risks and learn from their mistakes

• To use the Elements of Art and Design as building blocks for visual designs.

• To use the Principles of Art and Design as a foundational approach to organizing the Elements.

• To develop, and appreciate your individualized styles of expressions.

• To observe the natural world and take inspiration from it.

• To use the creative process for approaching problem solving and innovative design.

• To become more technically comfortable with most scribes

Additional Materials Needed:

1. Side bound Sketchbook - 12"x 9" recommended but no smaller than 6" x 9"

Grading:

Grades are determined through the accumulation of points, four types of points are possible: Daily Productivity points, project/exercise points, test/quiz points, and sketch book points. I use the NCSD#1 Grading scale which is:

A 90-100

B 80-89

C 70-79

D 60-69

F 60 and below

Grading Breakdown:

71% Assignments/Projects/Tests
29% Participation

Attendance:

Students are expected to attend class daily. Daily productivity points are not awarded when the student is absent. Excused absences can be made up by working on the assignment an amount of time equivalent to the absence. This must take place outside of class and the make up work must be turned in within a week of the absence. Recommended time to make up this time is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:20 a.m. - 8:20 a.m.

Tardy:

Students are expected to be in the classroom when the bell rings or they are tardy. Being tardy results in a loss of 10 of the 20 daily productivity points.

Artwork by Alex Konahin

Symbolic Symmetrical Animals

80 points total - Due November 24

For this assignment you will be creating a symbolic self-portrait that depicts who you are as an animal. The animal you chose will be rendered in a large symmetrical 3D pattern using graphite.

1. Research and choose an animal/insect for your self-portrait. Write in your sketchbook a small statement that describes why this particular animal resembles who you are. Find inspiration by looking up the artist Alex Konahin

2. Draw an original concept sketch of your symmetrical portrait in your sketchbook.

3. Experiment with patterns on your concept sketch.

4. Enlarge your chosen concept sketch onto a piece of 18” x 24” newsprint paper.

5. Begin to fill your outlined drawing with detailed patterns that compliment the forms and shapes of the animal.

6. Practice rendering a few of your patterns with shading.

7. Transfer the large newsprint drawing onto your final drawing paper.

8. On this final drawing you will complete this assignment by shading all of your pattern cells.

Grading Criteria

Research and reflection statement – 10 points

Concept Sketch – 10 points

Enlarged symmetrical line drawing – 10 points

Shading Study - 10 points

FINAL
Originality - 10 points
Pattern – 10 points

Value – 10 points

Craftsmanship – 10 points
Effort – 10 points

Course Outline

1^st Semester

• Prehistoric Cave painting with charcoal

Timeline: 40,000 b.c.e. – 10,000 b.c.e.

Points Total
80 points (Sketchbook work) + 30 points (Tribe drawing) = 110 points

Search words and topics:
Prehistoric art, petroglyphs, cave painting, Lascaux, Hall Of The Bulls, Legend rock wyoming.

In your sketchbook write and answer the following.
Explain who was creating cave paintings? (10 points)
What types of things did these prehistoric people draw? (10 points)
Why did prehistoric man create cave paintings/petroglyphs? (10 points)
When is the "prehistoric" era? (10 points)
Where are cave paintings and petroglyphs found in the world (name a few)? (10 points)
Did art mean the same thing then as it does now? Explain your reasoning why? (10 points)

Research prehistoric art/painting/petroglyphs and fill a page with drawings of these cave paintings into your sketchbook. Add notes next to each drawing that describe the date, place and subject matter. (20 points)

Modern Cave Man - Drawing Your Tribe
For this assignment you will now practice drawing and writing the story of "your" modern day tribe in the style of pre-historic man. Using your sketchbook, sketch and write who you consider to be "your tribe" of people. This could mean your family, friends, school, groups, community, nation and world. Once you have have identified the people of "your tribe", you will begin to illustrate the things that they do. After you have your drawing planned out in your sketchbook, this illustration will be redrawn using willow charcoal on a large wall covered in paper. Eventually all students will cover this wall with their "tribe" drawings to create a large class artwork that will be photoed and submitted to the State Art Show as a class project.

Drawing Your Tribe Assignment Summary:
1. Define who your tribe is (10 points)
2. Create preliminary drawings that depict your tribe in a prehistoric style (10 points)
3. Transfer your drawing onto the large paper cave wall (10 points)

Cultural Patterns

• Pattern and order (Tribal patterns) Illustrate linear and then organic patterns.

Timeline: 40,000 B.C.E.– – Current

Patterns were developed by early human civilizations from their natural desire to create order. Patterns are primarily used as a decorative motif for things like clothing, jewelry and architectural finishes .You will now delve into the patterns of other cultures, and then design your own linear and organic patterned design.

Cultural pattern drawing – 30 points

Using a graphite pencil or colored pencil, research patterns of 3 different cultures and draw them onto grid paper. Note which culture you are drawing next to each image. Suggested cultures: Navajo, Mayan, Chinese, African, India, etc… Tape or paste these drawings into your sketchbook.

10 points per cultural pattern

Design your own linear pattern - 40 points
Play around with a growing doodle that begins with basic shapes that gradually morph into other doodles. Use doodles that you have created before, use patterns and other objects to fill your scene. Once you have your plan figured out you will draw your own design onto a 5” x 7” sheet of paper to be framed. Choose a color scheme or go black and white, the option is yours.

Patterns/Doodle – 10 points

5”x7” – 10 points

Fill in all negative space – 10 points

Craftsmanship – 10 points

Design your own organic doodle pattern - 40 points

Begin to experiment with your own organic growing patterns on a piece of blank paper. Experiment with a color scheme to accompany your design. Use what you have learned and experimented with in your linear pattern to draw out this doodle drawing. Feel free to incorporate your own imagery now, but don't forget the main emphasis here is on pattern. Once you have your plan figured out you will draw your own pattern onto a 5” x 7” paper to be framed.

Pattern – 10 points

5”x7” – 10 points

Color scheme – 10 points
Craftsmanship – 10 points