Week 7 - Multimedia (Adobe Photoshop)

Homework 1:

Use a pencil (B or 2B), sharpen it, and drawing your hand holding something with contour lines only. Hold your hand away from the paper. Look at your hand, not the paper (90% of the time, you should occasionally glance at the paper for control and to acquire more accurate proportion.) Imagine you are touching the surface of your hand with the point of the pencil as you draw. Draw slowly and deliberately. Vary the pressure of the pencil as you move the line over the page. Try to avoid picking up the pencil as you draw, keep it contact with the surface of the page. Draw as close to life size as possible, on 9x12 sketchbook. (See examples below.)

Homework 2:

Simple Still Life drawing. Select several familiar objects (4 to 6 pieces) and arrange on your desk as a small still life. Draw your composition in contour line with pencils. Please avoid tone and texture. Simplify detail and focus on the surface as well as outline of the objects observed. Draw on 9x12 sketchbook.

When you choose drawing objects, please consider mixing their shapes (tall, short, linear, mass, big and small) and pleasant composition of the still life (remember the triangle composition principle that I mentioned in class before?) See examples below.

Copy sketch:

Please use pens to copy the following sketch on grid paper.

Graphic Journal:

Please do one of the graphic journals to draw your roommate (whole body in anything position, not just drawing their face), using contour lines only. Please see the examples below.