This week we practiced drawing using the grid method, a technique for transcribing an image from one page to another by breaking it down to individual squares on a grid. This is drastically different from the technique we practiced last week using contour lines, continuous contour, blind contour, and even non-dominant hand drawings. In your sketchbook after those drawings, you should now have taped in the cat, bird, and face grid drawings.
We began practicing applying value (shading) on two worksheets also taped into your sketchbook. After taking pictures in class or submitting them to me via e-mail, we will begin our self portrait drawings soon, our first major grade of the semester. Until then, we are preparing by practicing grid method drawing, value, texture, and studying other portrait artists. We will look at examples of expressive and purposeful use of the elements of art (line, shape, value, form, color, texture, and space) in portraiture and plan how to apply them to our self portraits. Step-by-step guide for the grid method: http://www.art-is-fun.com/grid-method/
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