sketchbook assignments #2 (due after thanksgiving)

Junior Portfolio

Sketchbook Assignment #2

Due: Monday Nov. 27

1. Draw the interior of something.

2. After you put on your pj's, draw the clothes your wore today wherever and however they happened to fall (on the floor, on a chair, in the hamper, etc.)

3. Something mechanical, use a specific color scheme (complementary, analogous, monochromatic, triadic, or split complements).

4. Find a quote about something that is going on in the world currently. Illustrate that quote however you see appropriate. Incorporate the quote into the final piece somehow.

5. Free – something that intrigues you.

Painting

Sketchbook Assignment #2

Due: Monday Nov. 27

1. Pile up all your favorite shoes in the corner of your room (at least 3 pairs). Zoom in on the most interesting section (crop your composition). Fill up your entire page with a blind contour drawing. Add color where appropriate.

2. Draw an unsuspecting life model in a study hall, library, in class after you finish a test, in the cafeteria, etc. Draw large, try using expressive lines (quick, sketchy, gestural lines).

3. Listen to your favorite song. Draw what you hear. Do not use recognizable words, images, or symbols. Only use line and color.

4. Draw the inside of your closet. Use a 1-10 value scale.

5. Ask a family member to pose for you. Draw them reading a book, watching tv, napping, knitting, etc. on a couch or chair. Use a 1-10 value scale.

Design Fundamentals

Sketchbook Assignment #2

Due: Wednesday Nov. 29

1. Where are the cleaning supplies kept in your house? (The windex, lysol, sponges, mops, etc.) Open the draw, cabinet, or closet, and draw a blind contour of exactly how you see what you see. Your drawing should fill up the entire page, don't lift up your pencil or look at the paper!

2. A bowl or plate of food. Recreate all the textures, make it look delicious!

3. A tiny, sentimental object. Enlarge it to heroic scale and let if fill up your entire page (touch 3 edges of your paper), use values 1-10.

4. Find an interesting color photo/ad in a magazine. Carefully remove the page, and then tear it in half. Carefully paste one half of the page into your sketchbook. Then, using just pencil, recreate the missing half of the image. Remember values 1-10, recreation of shapes, lines, textures.

5. Illustrate this quote by Joan Miro (and you may want to research the artist a bit...) “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”