"Directional Lines"

Unlike expressive lines, directional lines are very precise. Lines should all be the same thickness. These lines look as if they are bending and overlapping. This is not "free" like expressive lines but calculated, constant, and even.

Start anywhere on your paper. ove in a certain direction. Stop and begin in a new direction. !eep lines in a group the same distance apart. Try to go in every direction at least once. Use colored pencils to fill in the composition.

"Blind Contour with Color Wheel"

Using a black felt-tip marker "not roller-balls# do two blind contours of your teachers or classmates. Use two pages; draw one on each page. Using colored pencils, turn the most interesting of the two blind contours into a color wheel. The colors must flow in the order of the color wheel.

Be Creative! $esign the entire page. %erhaps use a floating rectangle behind as a way to unify. The color can go on top or behind the contour figure. &lend the color very carefully and smoothly. 'ou(ll have to "make" some of the colors by carefully layering two colors on your page. Color Wheel Colors In rder: Violet, Red-Violet, Red, Red-Orange, Orange, OrangeYellow, Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green, Green-Blue, Blue, Blue-Violet DUE 10-7-10

"Bottle Landscapes"
)veryone knows that things that are further away from us look smaller. &ut what if you can(t rely on si*e to tell the story+ This assignment uses plastic bottles, which can be any si*e. ,ow do you make a big detergent bottle look like it(s sitting behinda little eyedrop bottle+ Things that are partially covered by another object are seen as being behind the object overlapping! Things that are "urther away are drawn higher on the picture plane! Their bases #botto$s% will be placed higher on the page than the bottles that are supposed to be closer!

!ssignment" Take one bottle at a time to your table, and do a contour line drawing of it, starting anywhere on your page. Then do the same thing with another bottle. -ill your page with overlapping bottle shapes. &ottles that are meant to be in front must have a base that is lower on the page than the ob.ect that is behind it. Warning: /f the bottom of your front ob.ect is higher than the one behind it, your front ob.ect will appear to be floating in the air0 #wo techni$ues to practice that make ob%ects in &our drawing look closer or further awa&" 1. 2verlapping 3. 4hange in baseline

"'encil (hading"
Using the 5&ottle Landscape6 assignment, fill each positive7negative space with smooth pencil gradations "from light to dark#.
#he (hading Do-)ots"

1. 3. 8. :.

$o not shade with the side of your pencil. $o not smear the drawing with your finger or a tissue. $o not start out too dark 9 you can always get darker as you work. $o not use mechanical pencils. "Sorry 9 won(t work0#

#he Do*s"

1. $o make a flat edge on the tip of your pencil lead by "coloring" a

sharpened tip on a piece of scrap paper.

3. $o shade in one direction only...then shade the opposite direction on

8. top. $o shade from light layers to dark to avoid uneven transitions.

DUE 12-9-10

"Confetti )ames"

Instructions" +-or all the shapes that fall inside the pen areas, choose either warm or cool colors "but not both#. ;lter
the colors where a pencil line divides the area. <-or all the shapes that fall outside the pen areas, use the colors of the opposing temperature.

"#op #opic"
First, choose a sub.ect, topic, area of interest 9 something you really like and then= try to think of as many facets of the sub.ect as possible. >hat are all the pieces and parts that make this interesting to you+ Next, combine all these parts into a full page composition. 'ou might overlap sections to break up the negative space, or you can decorate or design a background to unify the parts. et as many parts in as you can. ?ary si*es, use close9ups, *oom in, *oom out, change the angle, include words, phrases, names. ake them part of your design.
!i": >hen you choose your color plan, you may want to pick one or two colors that can be included in most sections of your composition to help unify the parts.

DUE #-#-11

"(pecial ,dition"
Design the arrangement of the front page of a newspaper@ name the newspaper@ write headlines@ sketch the photos or ads@ add captions to "photos". Use color. -ill the page. /t doesn*t have to look like a conventional newspaper "maybe think of a maga*ine layout instead# and you don(t need to write stories. Use lines or shading to indicate the areas of type. &e inventive0 The lettering is part of the look in page design0

"Illustrate a -oke"
4hoose a .oke and draw the picture or pictures that go along with it. 'ou don(t have to make the .oke up, and you won(t be graded on how funny it is. Aemember that all material must be B9rated, and cannot be derogatory to a group of people. /f you(re unsure of the appropriateness of your sub.ect, ask your teacher.

use color - fill the page - create &our own drawings - don*t cop& another artist*s %oke drawings

DUE $-19-11