Comprehensive Art - Sketchbooks Why Have Sketchbooks? Sketchbook assignments are not busy work or just a reason for you to have homework. They do serve a valuable purpose. As with most activities, (sports, playing an instrument, singing, dancing, etc.), practicing the activity makes you better at it. Drawing is no different than these activities. The more you look at the world and draw it, the better you become at drawing, as well as being observant of your surroundings. Sketchbook Policy Sketchbook assignments are always due on Wednesday of each week. Your sketchbooks will be returned to you by Friday so you may complete the next assignment over the weekend. If you turn your sketchbook in on Thursday it is considered late, and you will get points off. However, if you were absent from school (not late or had an early dismissal) on a Wednesday then your sketchbook is due the day you return to school. Sketchbook assignments are a requirement and they are a part of your quarterly and final grades. Days missed during the week do not add days to the assignment s due date as this is a standing assignment. There will be a few weeks where no sketchbook assignment will be due photo challenge weeks, holiday weeks, etc. Otherwise, one assignment is due each week. You may choose which assignment you do which week. Please number the assignment in your book. You may work ahead. Grading Each sketchbook assignment will be graded out of 30 points. It is expected that you spend approximately 1 hour on each sketchbook. If it appears as though you spent less time on an assignment then points will be deducted. Your grade also depends on how well you followed directions, your creativity, and your
craftsmanship. If you turn your sketchbook in late, from Thursday till the following Wednesday, only 2 points will be deducted from your grade for each day it is late. After the following Wednesday, no points will be awarded for the sketchbook drawing. ASSIGNMENTS 1. CONTENTS Draw the contents of any of the following. Your closet Your junk drawer at home Your medicine cabinet Your refrigerator Contents may be drawn in black and white or color but must include value shading. Labels on bottles/items are not important, but getting the correct shapes and shadows are. The drawing should also show depth of the closet/drawer/cabinet/frigerator.
2.Transformation Chose an inanimate object and use it as a basis for a living thing. Create an apple out of worms a fish out of a manhole cover 3.Fairy Tales Draw your favorite fairy tale. Do not copy illustrations from a book create your own. Drawings should be in RICH color.
4.Two-point perspective There must be fore, middle, and background, as well as areas above, at, and below the horizon line (which need not be present, but may be implied). 5. Monochromatic Drawing Draw something using only shades of your favorite color. Black may not be used.
6. Quote Collage Choose a quote, poem or favorite song to collage. The finished piece needs to be interesting to look at and alter the surface plane. 7. Reflection Portrait Draw your reflection in any shiny surface.
8.Five Senses Drawings Create a still life that represents all 5 of the senses. Draw it.
9.Draping Draw something that drapes a towel, shirt, or blanket draped around or on another object to create wrinkles. Drawing should show the folds and creases by creating the shadows that the folds and creases create. 10. Negative Space Drawing Create a drawing using the white of your paper as the subject, drawing around your subject with pencil or pen.
11.Value Study Draw a simple object in the center (roundish works best), then drew ribbons from a center point. Values alternated between radiating in and radiating out. 12. Almost Famous Create a duplicate of a famous piece of artwork with your own twist. 13. Series Drawing Draw a series drawing that shows a process must include at least 3 drawings. (for example: Raw chicken, fried chicken, chicken bones and napkin after eating)
14. Ink Drawing Draw items from nature using only found items - sticks, weeds, dandelions, etc. and INK. You may touch up areas, as well as shade or embellish with pencil. 15. Hand Study Draw your hand against your knee, chin, shoulder, or on your hip.
16. Quilt Patterns Divide your sketchbook sheet into 12 equal square design each square differently to create your own quilt that describes you. 17. Uncommonly Good Draw two things that you don t commonly see together. Like a scoop of ice cream in a shoe.
18. PROPOGANDA Make a propaganda drawing about anything you feel strongly about. Convince me that your viewpoint is the correct one. 19. Five Square Inches Draw only 5 square inches of something. Grass, feather, dollar bill, quilt, etc
20. Not Quite Human Draw a human insect or animal. 21. Oozie Smoozie Make a drawing showing something that oozes.
22. King or Queen for the day Draw a portrait of yourself as one of the face cards in a normal deck. King, Queen or Jack. 23. Things aren t always how they appear. Drawing something that is normally thought of as sweet or peaceful and make it evil.
24. Divided Lines Divide a page into 6 sections the sections can be any shape you like and do not have to be equal. Each section has a different requirement~draw an eye, use numbers, use letters, a line design, a natural object, and whatever you d want in the last space. Spaces can be filled in any order.