2/26/15
Complete at least 5 of these drawing prompts during class, and use the remainder as prompts to fill your sketchbook over Spring Break.
Be mindful of the page and always consider your composition before beginning a drawing.
- Complete a greyscale in pencil that is 9” long with 9 tones (each tone being a 1” x 2” rectangle), the rectangles on each end should be extremes (lightest possible grey, and darkest possible grey) the rectangle in the middle should be 50% grey, and every other rectangle should fall in line to form a gradual shift in tone.
- Complete prompt #1 using line with the brush pen or the micron pens.
- Complete prompt #1 with China pencil
- Self portrait in the mirror with directional line (pencil or brush pen)
- Self portrait in the mirror with tone (pencil)
- Set up a still life and draw it from 3 different angles
- Set up a still life and draw it with 3 different types of lighting
- Complete a collaborative drawing with someone, taking turns responding to each other’s contributions.
- Draw a foreign landscape from Google Earth
- Draw a landscape involving extreme repetition
- Draw the same landscape in different types of perspective: Linear perspective, isometric (or axonometric) perspective, aerial perspective
- Do multiple master studies based on the pen and ink, charcoal, and pencil drawings of Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Courbet, Durer, Van Gogh, Matisse and Rembrandt.
- Make a drawing that contrasts straight lines using a ruler with very gestural mark making.
- Pause a movie or TV show and draw from the screen.
- Glue some ephemera from your Philly travels in to your sketchbook in an interesting way.
- Draw quick (2 minute) full body gestures of people in class, or people in a public place. Try to capture the movement and pose of the figure with loose, gestural marks.
- Draw a still life over the course of 2 hours. Set a timer. Draw the same still life in 2 minutes. Set a timer.
