Semester 2 sketchbook assignments
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The document provides details for semester 2 sketchbook assignments for students. It outlines that students must complete 5 assignments by March 1st for quarter 3 and 5 different assignments by May 10th for quarter 4. It then describes 10 specific sketchbook assignment options for students to choose from that involve drawing sounds, shading techniques, landscapes, characters, and more. The assignments are meant to help students look more closely at subjects, use their imagination, and explore ideas and techniques.
Semester 2 sketchbook assignments
- 1. SEMESTER 2 (QUARTER 3 & 4) Sketchbook Assignments I. Directions: Select Assignment and look at examples. See due dates below. Quarter 3: Complete 5 sketchbook Assignments by: Friday, March 1st Quarter 4: Complete 5 different Assignments by: Friday, May 10th II. Overview and Details: • Each exercise should take between 20 and 30 minutes to do because the purpose of a sketch book is to make you look harder at things, use your imagination, and explore ideas and techniques that interest, challenge, and stimulate you. • You will find that practice does indeed pay off and your confidence in your abilities will increase proportionally to the amount of effort and care you put into your work. • Full shading is expected, as are details. Use of colored pencils or other materials like pen and ink or your own favorites are fine ! This is your place to experiment and grow ! Remember-‐ you're only limited by your own imagination III. The 10 Assignments: 1. Draw what you hear – a song, a random noise, traffic roaring, guitar screaming, people laughing. How will you symbolize these sounds? Example Below illustrated a Basketball Bouncing.
- 2. 2. "Pencil Shading"- Fill the page with overlapping shapes that run off the page on all sides. No pos/neg spaces larger than a thumbprint. Fill each pos/neg space with smooth pencil gradations(from light to dark). The Shading Do-Nots: Do not start out too dark - you can always get darker as you work. The Do's: Do shade in one direction only... then shad the opposite direction on top. AND do shade from light layers to dark to avoid uneven transitions. 3. Bottle Landscapes Assignment: Take one bottle at a time to your table, and do a contour line drawing of it, starting anywhere on your page. Then do the same thing with another bottle. Fill your page with overlapping bottle shapes. Bottles that are meant to be in front must have a base that is lower on the page than the object that is behind it. • Things that are further away from us look smaller. But what if you can't rely on size to tell the story? • Uses plastic bottles, which can be any size. • Things that are partially covered by another object are seen as being behind the object: (overlapping) • Things that are further away are drawn higher on the picture plane. Their bases (bottoms) will be placed higher on the page than the bottles that are supposed to be closer.
- 3. 4. Design Your OWN Superhero! Your drawing must be in color and it should take up the entire page. Include your action hero's name, his/her superpowers and super- talents. Your superhero must be original. Please do not turn in Superman, Cat Women, Spider Man, "Japanimation" or any other copies! *Invent your own, please. Capes, tights are optional! 5. Spiraling Spheres: Overlap circles (or other shapes) of graduated sizes, moving from smallest to largest (largest on top-‐ draw it first) to create an illusion of movement toward you from the surface of the page. Fill the page with various sized trails. -‐Shade one end of the spiral trail gradually darker, one end lighter to enhance the illusion of movement and depth. Your choice of colors.-‐Create an interesting background; perhaps using analogous colors or monochromatic tints and shades to develop an ambiguous space.
- 4. 6. Illustrate a Joke (ONLY APPROPRIATE JOKES FOR SCHOOL!): Draw the visual representation of the joke – characters, setting, props, etc. -‐ Color is optional. 7. Practice the 4 different ways shown below to shade a Sphere: *This means you should have 4 sphere drawings total!
- 5. 8. Create a Doodle drawing using the different shading techniques: Dots (stipling), scribble (scumbling), Hatching (parallel lines), cross-‐hatching (criss cross lines). *Final Example of drawing on right NOT left! 9. Breaking an Object into 4 Squares and Replicating the Photo: Step 1: Find a black and white photo of an animal to draw from online or in a magazine. Step 2: Divide your sketchbook page into 4 squares. Step 3: Start with the contour (outline) drawing of the animal or object. Step 4: Add more shading – trying to replicate the photo and values. *The key to successful shading is having a wide range of gray in your art.
- 6. 10. Drawing ONE Eye One Step at a Time: 5 steps Minimum! * This means showing at least 5 steps to drawing an eye.