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Homework #1 Drawing Highlights...

Just as we are finishing up our homework #2 drawings this past Monday, I rediscovered your homework #1 drawings in a recent photo dump from my phone and thought I’d share a few here even though its a bit late...

Images, from top:

drawing by Abby

drawing by Calvin

drawing by Hedy

drawing by Crystal

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Homework Drawing #1: 50 drawings

For our first drawing assignment, I’m inspired by Los Angeles based artist Kiel Johnson. Kiel makes a lot of different cool things from drawings to sculptures, but for this project I’m focused on his detailed line drawings of multiple views of everyday objects, like the ones you see here.

For our first homework assignment, we are going to use a similar structure. Using the paper I distribute today in class, you will each create a composition made up of 50 smaller drawings of the same object.

Step 1: Choose an object with an interesting form. It should be something small that could fit in your hand, that looks different from different sides or angles.

Step 2: Draw your object 50 different ways on the same paper. Each drawing of the object should be different in terms of medium, point of view or style.

Homework #1 is due, at the beginning of class, on Wednesday September 30th. We will discuss your drawings in our first drawing critique of the semester.

Images from top:

These are two drawings by Kiel Johnson.

Mark Moore Fine Art, one of the galleries that represent his work, describe his art like this: 

Kiel Johnson’s drawings and sculptures tell tales; layered narratives speak of his travels and adventures through everyday life. His works become a springboard for metaphorical investigations of the world he inhabits. Although both factual fictions and absurd scenarios, they are ultimately testaments to observation that force us to question the concrete and truthful. What at first might appear safe and secure will be, upon further inspection, very precarious.