6 Drawing Unit • Students will understand that the action of drawing from memory or imagination is just as artistic as drawing from observation. • The lessons in this unit are designed to increase powers of observation and to train the hand to follow the eye. • Lessons are taken from the first half of the book …>>>
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6 Drawing Unit
• Students will understand that the action of drawing from memory or imagination is just as artistic as drawing from observation.
• The lessons in this unit are designed to increase powers of observation and to train the hand to follow the eye.
• Lessons are taken from the first half of the book …>>>
Preinstruction drawings
Record present drawing skill
DRAWING UNIT
Preliminary 4-part freeing
face vase …
Preliminary: 4 partFace vase
upside down drawingfollow the leader
blind contour drawing of handcontour line drawing of shoe
contour line of tool and other stuffnegative space magazine
negative space:drawing chair
Exercise # 1Freeing exercise
• Increase confidence on the paper
• Use, composing the whole space
• Listening
• Stop when you start to scribble and not compose.
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• 1 draw a human profile using one line
• Trace and rename 2x
• 3 draw parallel horizontal lines at the top and bottom
• 4 draw the mirror image.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Exercise 2: Monster face-vase
• Step 1: draw the lines you remember, draw what you know. It pulled from memory, naming all stuff on a face. All the information was inside you.
• Step 4: you had to mirror- copy the lines to the other side. You drew what you saw. All the information was in front of you.
• Color (and draw on?) the background of the optical illusion so the monster is hidden.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Exercise 2: face-vase•Step 1: draw the lines you remember, pulling from memory, naming all stuff on a face. All the information was inside you.•Step 4: you had to mirror- copy the lines to the other side. All the information was in front of you.
starter
• follow the leader (look at book from the library “Follow the Line”)
• Try • Right Brain Exercises for Artists: Taking a Line for a
Walk• Learn to capture the essence of a subject with this right
brain exercise.• By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com• http://painting.about.com/od/rightleftbrain/a/
rightbrain_walk.htm
Sixth grade drawing exercise 3
Upside down drawingTo block the left brain activity of
naming what we see…to better enable right brain seeing.
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6th Grade blind contour drawing
• When making a blind contour drawing, the eye is not watching the pencil move on the paper as it draws. The eye looks at the subject. Contour drawing is an excellent way to train the eye to draw what it really sees rather than what it thinks it sees. The first contour drawings you do will look, well, funny. However, with practice, you will find that you will be able to accurately record an image on paper without looking at your paper!
Blind contour line drawing lesson
• The assignment is not “Draw your hand.” YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO STAY IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO STAY IN THE PROCESS FOR THE AMOUNT OF THE PROCESS FOR THE AMOUNT OF THE ASSIGNED TIMETHE ASSIGNED TIME. If you “finish” one view, and there is still time, simply turn your hand slightly and “begin again”. It’s ok to go over your old drawing.
Directions• Right handed people and left handed people
should not face each other (it may feel too silly).
• Put 2 pieces of tape, gently, to hold your paper in place temporarily. Don’t rub the tape down, so you can easily peel it off when you finish the process.
• Sit sideways in your chair. Your drawing hand on the paper, your “subject” hand on the back of your chair.
Relax
Dir. Cont.
Directions, continued:
• Draw with ink so you don’t worry about erasing.• Draw only when you are looking at your subject• Look at your paper only when a line ends, and
you need to decide a place to start a new line.• Repeat: The assignment is not “Draw your
hand.” Your assignment is to stay in the process for the amount of the assigned time. If you “finish” one view, and there is still time, simply turn your hand slightly and “begin again”. It’s ok to go over your old drawing.
• Discuss grade.
Grade understanding:
• Complicated view
• No erasing, drew with ink
• Drew right brain contours
• Put name and homeroom on
How I evaluate: I watch the process
• You don’t quit, you stay with the process the whole time, looking at your subject for the full time. If you “finish” one view, simply turn your hand slightly and “begin again”. It’s ok to go over your old drawing.
• You don’t draw when you look at your paper, you look only to place your pen to start a new line.
• You don’t choose a “flat hand” view, you choose a view of your hand that is complicted with overlapping, so your left brain is turned off.
How I evaluate: I look at your drawing
• Erasing…you looked too much at your paper (pen eliminates this)
• Smooth certain lines…you already knew how to draw it….possibly a left brain “schema”…possible fear of trying…possible not understanding
• The drawing looks just like a hand…you possibly looked too often
Modified Contour line Drawing
• Look only at the subject while drawing.
• Look at your paper only when not drawing to place your pencil.
• It is the next step in training the eye to draw what it really sees rather than what it thinks it sees.
• Use a seat chart and mark how long each student draws. Put grade in book.