Complete any 12 of the following:
Throw a pair of pants over a chair in your room. Draw an interesting section of the pants and the chair. Consider the background. The paints should almost fill your page. You are looking to render the folds of fabric. Try to use only one light source.
Over two pages of your sketchbook, draw 16 squares, each with a unique arrangement of 4 circles inside. For each one, use a distinct colour pallet.
Select 5 objects from your room. Create a Laws of Media tetrad for each.
Do a full page drawing of a fruit or vegetable in a full colour range in emphasis, contrast, rhythm, asymmetry
Using a variety (3+) of mark making techniques, create an expressive artwork inspired by the lyrics of a song. Use the whole sheet of paper / consider the entire frame (principles of design may help)
Map a TV Show. In your own codex on a timeline, map the plot, jolts per minute, laugh track, commercial breaks and whatever else you feel grabs your attention. Also note if you see any patterns of colour or mood established.
Imagine you were a corporation. Design a logo to represent your company's identity.
Draw a long squiggle on one side of your page. Add more lines.. continue to add, strengthen and take away lines until the page can be described as simple, dynamic and balanced.
Create a zentangle (www.zentangles.com)
Cut up a piece of fruit. Zoom in on a section of this cutting and draw it so that the form fills your page. Use colour.
Select a few simple objects in your room and sit them on a pair of pants. Do a drawing of an interesting area of this arrangement Do a second drawing focussing only on the negative space (use only black and white)
Document yourself as a variety of personalities / characters. Photography is a great tool for this.
Draw a picture of a family member as they watch TV. Focus only on a small area of their form.
Find a face in a magazine, cut it down the middle, draw the missing half.
Take a section of a photo of a face and paste it in your sketchbook, upside down. On the opposing page, draw this image as you see it, in colour. An upside down portrait will lead you to draw what you see instead of what you think your see.
Do a self portrait in grey scale from a photograph. Then complete a second version in colour. (2)
Using coloured pencils, do a self-portrait from a mirror focusing on light and shapes that help you see the facial structure. Focus only on a 1⁄4 of your face.
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Complete any 12 of the following.
Watch the sky. Do studies of clouds capturing three different cloud types. Identify each.
Find an obsolete object in your house. Draw it from direct observation and modify it to serve a new purpose.
Do a study of an internal space from observation emphasizing perspective (use perspective techniques to help find the angles)
Complete a drawing of a built environment's external façade.
Draw the exterior of your home.
Make a copy of a master drawing.
Do a drawing or painting inspired by a style you discovered at http://www.artchive.com or www.ccca.ca
Manipulate found images. add to them with wet or dry media
Draw an object from observation and shade using cross hatching.
Create an invented space using perspective.
Draw from an image found in a newspaper.
Fill a page with detailed plant studies.
Make full page studies in colour of your favorite meals. (you might take a picture of it befor eyou eat then draw from the picture or work from life.) |