Sketch book Choices
and Ideas
Studio
In Art
Submitted by: Mrs. Sumner-Lyman
You need to do
at least one sketch per week in your sketch book. This should take
between 45- and 60 minutes to do because the purpose of a sketch
book is to make you look harder at things, use your imagination,
and explore ideas and techniques that interest, challenge, and
stimulate you. You will find that practice does indeed pay off and
your confidence in your abilities will increase proportionally to
the amount of effort and care you put into your work. Full shading
is expected, as are details. Use of colored pencils or other
materials like pen and ink or your own favorites are fine! This is
your place to experiment and grow! Remember- you're only limited
by your own imagination
SUGGESTED
ACTIVITIES
Draw
a portrait using light and shadow- place the light from different
angles than "normal" -under the chin, behind the head,
in front of the face.
Study
your feet and shoes. Draw them in different positions and from
different angles and views.
Draw
studies of your hands. Try a variety of positions or overlapping
them.
Draw
a figure in an environment from your observation- in motion, and
standing still.
Draw
in imaginary place- remember to show rich details.
Do
a self portrait. This can be full body view or face only.
Accuracy!! Gesture drawings of people, things, or animals in
motion.
Contour
line drawings of figures or objects.
Draw
several studies of your eyes, nose, and mouth in a variety of
positions and
poses.
Focus
on drapery and pattern: a shirt over a chair, a sheet around a
banister, etc.
Draw
everything you can see from where you are positioned: this can be
from imagination, like if you were in a hot air balloon, ant
sized, etc.
Draw
a man made object.
Draw
a metallic object and everything you see in it.
Draw
or design any kind of vehicle.
Draw
an object of interest from 3 different views.
Draw
using 2 point perspective.
Draw
the inside of a mechanical object.
Filling
the page with them, overlap two dimensional forms and pick a
direction for the light to hit them from. Shade accordingly.
Draw
your reflection in any shiny surfaced object.
Draw
a landscape from observation. Remember to show foreground, middle
ground, and background.
Draw
your home and what's around it.
Draw
family members with things that they cherish.
Draw
the interior of your room and what's in it- from wherever you're
sitting: on floor, up on bed, from ceiling looking down.
Study
the forms, shapes, lines and textures and colors of trees.
Draw
animals from life (if you can't see them live, copy them from a
reference book)
Draw
a plant with as much detail as possible using line contour and
line variation.
Arrange
a still life and draw it with shading.
Draw
bottles and cans- have the cans crunched up for lots of detail and
contrast to the bottles' smoothness.
Draw
dishes in a drainer, with shading.
Create
a fantasy building and landscape.
Create a series
of positive and negative space designs.
Draw
a piece of furniture and use color to show the textures and
shadows.
Draw
a still life with one to three pieces of patterned cloth in it.
Show color and patterns.
Focus
on textures in a drawing.
MORE
SKETCHBOOK CHOICES
(JUST
IN CASE YOU NEED MORE INSPIRATION)
Using
color (no black) and light (white) create a Impressionist style
landscape drawing- remembering to optically mix colors by placing
compliments next to each other.
Transform
an object from a realistic view to a Cubist representation (using
several different view points within the same frame) in a
progression of 4 steps.
Draw
yourself using a strong light on one side or angle of your face,
focusing on the shapes of the shadows of your facial features-
excellent shading practice.
Try
several studies of DRAPERY- a towel, shirt, or blanket draped
around or on another object to create lots of wrinkles; focusing
on shapes of folds and creases and the shadows that are created by
them.
Advanced
drapery- try the same exercise with a patterned cloth in color.
Take
out a library book on any artist of your choosing and duplicate
their art work. Please make a Xerox copy of it for my reference.
Create
a series of drawings of people in motion- playing sports; doing
housework; etc. Try to overlap several views of the action as it
progresses- use light sketchy lines; it will help.
Design
a tattoo for someone particular- a celebrity; teacher; etc.
Draw
from imagination with s much rich detail as possible- if you were
awakened by a crash in the middle of the night; what would it be
from ??
Draw
yourself 50 years from now; including your surroundings,
possessions, etc.
Illustrate
a favorite story of yours told by a grandparent; uncle, or other
relative.
Design
a CD cover for a musical group (no gangster rap, peace signs; pot
leaves, or conventional, unoriginal or violent imagery will be
accepted!!)
Draw
your greatest fear; your biggest hope; or your dream for your
future.
Draw
a series of animals in motion.
Drawing
from Patty Knott
I no longer set
up still lifes. I have small stations where students bring their
own objects and make arrangements that have meaning for them. I
always ask that they "extend" from the drawings.
IDEAS
FOR DRAWINGS
Where
do ideas come from? I
get ideas from looking, looking, looking.
Pay attention to what draws
you to certain objects, colors, and textures.
Look at how you arrange your favorite things. What are your
favorite things? These exercises are to help you find those
relationships.
I was looking
at a bunch of stuff that sits on a shelf in my workroom -- a
miniature model of a bi-plane sits on top of a bunch of tape
cassettes that I no longer listen to and not far from them is a
4'globe made from old bed springs.
They were placed on the shelf arbitrarily but as I looked I
began to see a relationship. The plane looks like it is about to
take off from the stack of tapes and circle the globe. Suddenly
these small things became the basis of a little painting for me.
Stuff I look at everyday, but don't really look at became
something I could use to say something about my flying.
1.
Find 2 or 3 objects that seem to have no relation to each
other. Arrange and draw.
2.
Draw a self portrait that doesn't include your face
3.
Draw an arrangement that includes food. (What is food? Whose
arrangement is it?)
4.
Create an assemblage that includes 3 sticks, 3 round
objects (all the same or similar size) a base or bases, and
anything else you chose. Draw
the assemblage.
5.
Find something that you or your parents kept of yours from
when you were a small child. It could be something you made, a
favorite toy, an article of clothing. Draw it in a context that
gives meaning to the "saving." Why was it saved?
6.
Draw breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Don't limit yourself to just the food. (100 years ago when
I applied to RISD one of the assignments was Draw
your family at breakfast. Since my family never ate breakfast
together this was a challenge.)
7.
Find an actual object to scan. (Find something small and
relatively flat. It can be natural or man-made.) Include some kind
of background. Manipulate the scan in PhotoShop. Draw from the
manipulated scan. Where
can this go???
Drawing Assignment – from Sue
Galos
DRAWING
JOURNAL NAME_________________
DUE
DATES: 1. ________
MARK_____/100
2. ________
MARK_____/100
3. ________
MARK_____/100
Select
10 compound words for each journal due date, and
create an image that evokes the meanings of both words in a
combined fashion.
flyswatter
sandpiper
sawhorse
ping-pong
clockwise
gooseberry
strawberry
foxglove
carmine
foreman
bandage
nobody
screen door income
eyeball
bookworm
crossword
nitwit
footwear
card shark
backpack
outgoing
blowfish
jackknife
ragweed
hornbill
deadbeat
cheapskate buttercup
typecast
typewriter
forecast
roughneck
lyrebird
toothpick
hairpin
blackjack
boxcar
blackfly
barfly
mothball
turntable
doormat
microwave
hedgehog
You
may also select words of your own from a dictionary as long as you
check with the teacher on their appropriateness first.
Use
any media or materials you wish. Each drawing MUST be a full
page in size.
Drawing idea from Randy
Menninghaus
Art 1 The Zipper : Creating
& Imagining Unit
How long?-About 4 days in
class….
This unit gives each student an
image of a zipper and challenges them to include it within a
creative art work. First imagine it as part of something OTHER
THAN as part of a piece of clothing. Look at it from all
directions.
You may
use one or both of the zipper images.
Once you
get an idea… continue to think … often your first idea is one
that every one has…. .
Start in
pencil, then continue with dark pen… black is best. Dip pens
&. Permanent ink are available. Or you may use your own pen(s)
Use all
the time provided for art making.
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name__________________ Zipper
Imagine 0-100 pt
Grade based on :Creative
Fantasy solution to the problem
Following directions….Using the
whole paper and creating some kind of background. Using a variety
or lines textures and areas of black. Clean up & Use of class
time.
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