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Homework for this week: due this Thursday (January 11):
A single graphite drawing of your two hands, in gestural poses
(This is practice for part of your midyear exam project (#3 below).)
- Try to understand how the bones and muscles of the hand work
- Draw the contours of your hands accurately.
- Indicate three-dimensional structure and form by including some tonal value; one light source
- Entirely from observation (life; no photographs)
- Hands could be interacting with each other
- Refer to Bridgman’s or another anatomy book (in classroom)
- Draw large; fill the page -- compose the page
- At least sketchbook size
- DO NOT trace your hands
- Accuracy of proportion,
- Accuracy of contour line;
- Quality of line (dark, light, thin, thick as necessary);
- Indication of structure/form via value;
- Composition of picture plane (i.e. draw to fit/fill the paper)
2. Complete charcoal self portrait and chalk on black paper self portrait (no later than the end of Tuesday, January 9, so that you have time for your midyear project during the remaining classes this week.)
Turn in all your self-portraits as a body of work. Separate them with large sheets of tracing paper, and place them in a large oaktag "folder":
- Blind contour drawings
- Individual features, combined as collage
- Charcoal drawings - tonal value only
- Chalk on black paper
Self portrait with Hand and Landscape
(Refer to the style/placement of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Albrecht Durer's Self Portrait, Age 26)
- Three-quarter length self portrait (head, neck, shoulders, arm, down to waist)
- Three-quarter view (from side of head, both eyes, side of nose, one ear showing)
- At least one hand fully visible,
- Landscape in background (from observation -- yard of your home, neighborhood or school from a window)
- Indicate three-dimensional structure and form by including some tonal value
- Medium: graphite (pencil), conte, or charcoal
- At least sketchbook size; larger is recommended
Graded on:
- Accuracy of proportion,
- Accuracy of contour line;
- Quality of line (dark, light, thin, thick as necessary);
- Indication of form via tonal value;
- Three-dimensional space (foreground, middle-, background)
- Figure/ground relationship -- self portrait and landscape working together, not interfering with one another
- Composition of picture plane
4. Spray, mount and label all self portraits