Value/Shading Techniques/Making Marks

...particularly with drawing.



Let's look at how you define failure with drawing.



Have you failed if you do not draw what you have conceived in your head before you began the drawing?

In this class, you should be drawing what you see, NOT an ideal figure.



Have you failed if you do not draw what you see in front of you?

How much do you really see? Are you focused on details or the overall picture; the overall figure? What is more important; the individual fingers and small facial details or torso, legs, arms, head?



Have you failed if you make mistakes?

If you don't make mistakes, then how are you going to learn anything other than what you already know?

Combining zentangles with photographic images

http://paullaiz.com/ Let the fun begin!

Sketchbook: Japanese Stab Binding

Since Drawing does not a fee, and our budget has been drastically reduced, we will be making our sketchbooks.

Doodling and the Zentangle!

ZENTANGLE!

We are going to start off the year with MINDLESS drawings.  We will begin with doodling and reflecting on the concept of PLAY! 

Drawing Animal in Costume!

This is an image from

Tina Mullen from the Penland Gallery.

You will be drawing an animal to dress up!

Choose well!

End of 1st Quarter is Approaching!

VALUE SCALE

Everyone should have turned in their sketchbooks Friday! Make sure stitching is tight, and your name is on the inside cover! (Make sure you used a variety of paper types, magazine, text, sketching paper, fed ex box etc....)
Now it is time to start our sketchbook assignments!!
Sketchbooks should be done outside of class!
Sketchbooks are required, and will affect your grade if they are not done!

What is a doodle?

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a persons

attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simpel drawings that can have concrete reperesentational meaning, or may be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical exampes of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen or paper are available!