Aaron Sturla: Independent Drawing Project

Independent Drawing Project

Project Description:

You will be required to draw a portrait from observation 5 times a week until the due date for this project; totaling in 25 portraits.

Goals:

The goal of this assignment is to gain a better understand of proportions and the anatomy of the human face in hopes to better your ability to draw the human figure from observation.

Materials:

Explore any materials you feel would benefit your understanding of the human face. (dry and wet media are both welcomed)

Requirements:

Explore different time constraints, sizes and subject matter (do NOT only draw yourself and your friends) try going to a coffee shop and draw the person across the room. Explore both contour and value but not limiting yourself by having to use both in 1 drawing.  Finally, have fun.

Methods:

You must have 5 drawings a week meaning between Monday and Sunday you must have 5 completed drawings to document. Sign and date each one to show progress, this will be turned into a brief slide show.

Tips:

This projected is designed to benefit you. Do NOT wait until the night before to draw 25 portraits, it will be obvious and not be helping you in any way. If done correctly, you will be a far better portrait artist than you were before you started.

Due Date:

Thursday, May 3^rd. This will be a full critique day. 

Cam's Independent Drawing Project Assignment

 

Independent Drawing Project


Project Description:
Create a drawing utilizing light to create movement, space, or suggest time.

Goals:
To understand how to manipulate light or light sources in order to enhance a drawing.

Materials:
Any

Requirements:
Light must be used in a fairly non-traditional way. Try not to simply make a drawing with one dramatic light source. Think about how your drawing and light could interact directly.

Methods:
Anything is fair game (some examples:)

Use overlapping colored lights on subject when drawing

Make a drawing almost completely “absent” of light

Display a drawing in almost total darkness or under an overpowering light source.

Tips:
Try to use light in a non traditional way:

This could be having multiple dramatic light sources

Including actual light as part of the drawing.

Etc.

Think about our perception of light and how we traditionally project that onto a drawing.

Independent Drawing Assignment

Project Description:

Create a drawn collage of animals of your choice, using a realistic style, working from sight.

Goals:

Practice the anatomy of a variety of animals- birds, mammals, reptiles, etc., and create a realistic depiction, working from sight.

 

Materials:

Pencil, Ink, Watercolor, Markers

Requirements:

 

Project must reflect the animals' movement- becoming gestural, "completed" sketches. When collaged together, the piece must measure 3'x3'

 

Methods:

Use gestural techniques to have a complete and accurate form, but also accounting for the "internal structure" and movement of the model.

Tips:

Remember, nothing is precious.

 

Due Date:

Thursday, May 3 :)

Independent Drawing Project

Project Description:

Create a portrait of someone/something utilizing color and multiple layers of chosen media

Goals:

Creation of a dimensional and iconic image that resembles a “graffiti”-esque style, or seems to be street art

Materials:

Stencils

Requirements:

Project must be at least 4’ in one direction, and must utilize at least one reference of observed street art

Methods:

Use stencils(hand-cut or digitally-cut) to create layers of color

Tips:

Choose an iconic and/or high contrast image to create a stark and graphic portrait

Due Date:

Thursday, May 3

Independent Drawing Assignment

Overview and Descriptions:
Consider unfamiliar familiarities. Think about what you mentally know but physically have never come in contact with, or are perhaps not physically tangible. One could think about things, such as:
-spaces/places
-memories
-reoccurring dreams.
The goal is to find a way to portray or illustrate that which you don't necessarily know.

Materials:
-dry medium
-paper

Tips:
Think about spaces 3-dimensionally, rather than as a drawing.

Independent Drawing Assignment

Project Description: To appropriate an old master work and use it as a tool to create an entirely new drawing.

Goal: To familiarize myself with the compositions and aesthetic of old master works and try to figure out to incorporate them into my own work.

Material: Dry or wet media

Tips: Do not be a slave to the piece you are appropriating. The piece should be a tool in your process not a replica.

Independent Drawing Assignment- Esther Yi

Project Description :Create a painting thats bigger than 18X24 of a strong memory, good or bad that somehow affected you. It can be direct or conceptual.

Goal: Exploring the memory that has greatly effected you, good or bad ,and using paint to manipulate the memory in a direct or conceptual way.


Materials: oil or acrylic.


Requirements: Pick an artist (painter)  you feel has the style you want to use and somehow incorporate it  to your painting.


Methods: Start off with a charcoal sketch  on the canvas first.

Tips: Don't get caught up on how the audience is going to interpret your painting.
         Stay true to the memory that affected you.