#artcurriculum

[rydanart]

Form practice continued. Lesson from creativeformsketching.blogspot…. 

[rydanart]

Learning forms from creativeformsketching.blogspot…. For this exercise, I'm not applying perspective as the goal for this practice is to understand how to combine simple form to create complex ones. I plan to apply perspective in later exercises when I switch the "draw-a-box" exercises.

[rydanart]

What I've learned: Once shapes and forms become recognizable and understood them, they can easily be rotated, twisted and bend as you imagine them so that with any combination of form and shape, most objects can be drawn without reference. Knowing how to draw the basic shapes and forms also allows for the breakdown of the big picture and avoid the distraction of the smaller details of the subject in the drawing.

Shapes are in the area in which the drawing takes up:

   ·         Shape is in the outlines/contours of the subject

   ·         Shapes are in the negative and positive space of the drawing (subject and background).

   ·         Shapes are in of light and shadows of the subject.

   ·         Shapes are in the features of the subject

[rydanart]

What I've learned: Once shapes and forms become recognizable and understood them, they can easily be rotated, twisted and bend as you imagine them so that with any combination of form and shape, most objects can be drawn without reference. Knowing how to draw the basic shapes and forms also allows for the breakdown of the big picture and avoid the distraction of the smaller details of the subject in the drawing.

Shapes are in the area in which the drawing takes up:

   ·         Shape is in the outlines/contours of the subject

   ·         Shapes are in the negative and positive space of the drawing (subject and background).

   ·         Shapes are in of light and shadows of the subject.

   ·         Shapes are in the features of the subject

[rydanart]

Relearning the Fundamentals Series: Lines PT3 

[rydanart]

Relearning the Fundamentals Series: Lines PT2 

[rydanart]

Relearning the Fundamentals Series: Lines Pt1

What I’ve learn while practicing:

Good line quality requires clarity, confidence and consistency

Avoid the “chicken scratches”

When drawing lines, try to look a little bit ahead of the line. Do not focus on your hand or on the point of the pencil/pen.

When drawing straight lines, keep your wrist steady when sliding across the paper.

Ghost your lines

[yuanyuanxu-me]

Who Has Hair?

Who Has Hair? explores one of the things mammals share in common: hair! Our hair may be different—Polar Bear's doesn't look exactly like Orangutan's or like yours— but we all have hair and want it to be clean and pretty.

Children's Books

Artist

Mickalene Thomas

https://www.mickalenethomas.com/

Worksheet

http://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/tt_who_has_hair_book_handout.pdf