Sketchbook Assignment #4 (Due 10/2)

Okay, now it's time to try something painfully new!  I want you to render an object in your household using strictly ink (preferably sharpie as it creates large lines that keep you from getting too finicky).  The idea is to imply three dimensional form via shading, but since you're limited to only black and white you have to get a little creative and pay attention to your negative space.  Make sure at least one area of your piece is fairly dark (more black space than white space).  Check out these examples that utilize different types of linework:

Sketchbook Assignment #3 (Due 9/18)

For this round of sketchbookery I want you to draw something you love... something you desperately and hopelessly love until the end of days, but with some STIPULATIONS!  You need to draw a 7" by 7" square in your sketchbook and this will become the outer border for your drawing.  If your sketchbook is silly-small then you'll have to just fill the page.  Herein lies the stipulation: the object of your undying affection needs to go past three of the borders (you can even draw the object outside of the borders if it helps you to visualize what is happening).  You can have it extending past all four borders, but at a minimum I want it to expand across three.  For example, let's say you have a weird necro-crush on Pope John Paul the 2nd.  Note how he extends past three of the borders, but the fourth is left open.  There's no need to shade your drawing (definitely put some detail/effort into it, however), but you get the idea!

Sketchbook Assignment #2 (Due 9/11)

Hello again my fellow arteests!  Just as we did in class on Thursday, I want you to complete 10 gesture drawings (in pencil please).  For your reference I want you to do your best to find candid subjects (someone sitting in a bench, someone standing at an intersection, or any pose that's relatively stationary).  The more exagerated the pose the better (arms extended, legs somewhat spread or crossed).  If you can't find any candid subjects then try enlisting someone to do a few poses for you.  Each gesture drawing should only take about 30 seconds.  Also, try to fit as many as you can onto one or two pages instead of having 10 spread throughout your sketchbook.  Some examples below! 

What do I NOT want to see?  I'm glad you asked!  I don't want to see any deliberation over structure or an attempt to build up the figure through skeletal structure or geometric volume.  For the love of all that is good and holy, DO NOT DO THIS (see below)!

The above drawing is a fine way to approach the figure, but it is not gesture drawing.  Give me your loosest, ugliest, most free-form attempts at rendering the figure!  

Sketchbook Assignment #1 (Due 9/4/12)

Happy Saturday everyone; for your assignment due on Tuesday I requested that you draw at least three rectangular prisms (make sure they're large enough to fill up a page in your sketchbook).  These can be anything in your home from a book, to a shelf, the refrigerator, even a CREDENZA!  Do your best to utilize the measuring, sighting, and angle checking techniques we learned this week.  If something looks subconsciously wonky/weird about your cubes/prisms then it probably means their perspective lines are all wonkadoo.  Remember, the top and bottom edges of your prisms should be receding towards each other in space.  They may appear to be parallel, but they'll actually be slightly askew towards the horizon line.  Take your time and don't get discouraged!  I am there with you in spirit, but not in a creepy overbearing way.