Right Brain Draw

From the Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands...Pencil & Black Chalk Michelangelo   Why Do Artist Sketch?  How do they develop their skills/abilites and perfect their desired outcome?

I recently learned of this Artist... love how he didnt NEED to render the Arm for its form but rather suggested the activity of the limb in this self portrait!

Do we simply draw for the outcome? Can the exercise itself become a work of Art? Sometimes....

Atmospheric Perspective and creating Spatial Depth Light sources and Negative space to create Contrast Finding & Creating Dynamic Compositions

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Foreshortening is the distortion that happens to Forms in Perspective Perspective refers to the vantage point of the viewer 1st we will review the cylinder and ellipse/circle concept Contour drawings of Shoes from multiple views Hands & Gloves http://community.livejournal.com/glockart/25477.html Working from a Model Contrapposto

Gesture Line Honore Daumier How can you tell when a drawing is 'good'? Blind Contour Portraits http://studiojuliakay.com/portraitproject/labels/Skin%20Tones:%20Pink.html Changing HOW you look at things Shoes and self-portrait Elevate shoe to eye level Various Angles of things Foreshortening Turn to a ¾ view while looking in the mirror Sharpie, small white paper… Don’t take pen off paper and draw the contours with a continuous line  Work very slowly if your eye gets ahead of your hand stop and look where you are and resume Don’t do any coloring with the marker use only line Remember not to THINK about anything… don’t go back to using symbols   

Using what you KNOW (theory) to create Illusion Exercises to help organization- "stretches before the walk" Gesture Drawing Loose, size relationships & proportions mapping it out Composition using a view finder Perspective Drawing- Illusion #1 Shape to Form Vantage Point and Horizon Line Birds Eye View Worms Eye View Creating Spatial Depth-Group of Forms What do you notice about the color of these three pumpkins? What do you notice about the size? About the detail? What 2 things do you notice notice about the placement   in the picture plane of the 3 pumpkins? What is the Reality?? ... are all of these pumpkins the same size? Answer!! 2 Small 1 Large

Isolate the Form, Side View, & turn upside down Draw only the Shapes created not the positive Pattern and Texture can be added for Abstract or Representational Finish #1 Observation drawing from an image Seeing things differently - NEGATIVE SPACE Subject Matter Figure & Creatures Grid Strategy Upside down drawing #2 Observation Drawing from Life View finders Inanimate Objects Studies and Plants Drawing Media Conte Crayon Vine Charcoal Compressed Charcoal Ink

Introductions Perceptions about Drawing 4 W's & an H: Who can draw? What is a Drawing? Where do we see drawings? Why Draw? How is drawings useful? Types of Drawing, the Basis for all created things Methods 2 the Mystery Getting over the Fear Strategies & Overview of the course Pre-Instruction Drawings Your Unique Mark Hands, Chairs