Upload and Catch-up Day

Ellipse Practice

• ellipses and sketchy practice

Drawing in Proportion - Units of Measure

• Various Tubes

You should upload these exercises today:
Drawing in Proportion

• Cones
• Squirt Bottle

Finding Angles

• Box on Paper
• Tube, box, and paper

Value and Shading

• Value scale practice
• Value scale worksheet
• Shaded forms

Scholastic Magazine

• How to Read Art

Friday, Sept 20 - Scholastic Magazine Assignment - How to Read Art - DUE TODAY

Hello class. I cannot be here today.

Your assignment is to read the Scholastic magazine, How to Read Art.
There are two sets of questions to answer.

• Summarize
• Reading Review

Please do not write the answers on the question sheets.

In a new blog post titled Scholastic - How to Read art, write down both the questions and answers.

Please respect the sub and be nice and finish the assignment TODAY!

Finding Angles - The Pencil and Clock Trick

When you are drawing object you also need to find correct angles.

Use the following technique to sight the angles with pencils.

Tilt your pencil to align with a feature in your image.

Then compare it to the horizontal border of your paper. 

The angle should be as close to the actual angle as possible.

It might help to imagine the angles as hands on a clock. What time would the angle above be?

Continue the process until you find all the angles...

Blog Post - Drawing in Proportion

Add these notes to the blog post....

I am using the pencil and thumb trick to find units of measure in order to accurately draw objects in proportion.

3:1 , 5:1  Tubes

1:2.75 cone

Squirt Bottle

Drawing in Proportion Using Units of Measure

Today we will begin to learn the skills we need make a realistic drawing.

First we need to make a drawing that is in Proportion, meaning that all elements of the object are in the correct ratio to each other.



How do I find proportion in what I draw?

Use your pencil and thumb to measure a distance on the object. This is called the Unit of Measure.

Then use the unit of Measure to find out how tall the tube is. Drop your pencil and thumb down the length of the tube and count how many widths you find.

1 width

2 widths

..and the tube is almost 3 widths tall.

Here is a link that goes into much more detail about this process.

Ellipse Practice - Upload to your blog - DUE TODAY

Today we will practice ellipses again and upload your work to a new blog post.

Title the post, Ellipse Practice, and include at least 6 well drawn ellipses from different perspectives.

Upload Your Drawing Exercises

Upload the following...

Lines - Horizontal Vertical diagonal
Spirals 
circles


Free Contour
Arcs
Hand - Cross Contour