Weeks 5 & 6: Positive/Negative Space, Contours, Tonal Values, and Getting Abstract

Using artwork by artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian everyone worked with lines, shapes and patterns to create abstract drawings. Students also ventured into drawing realistic form and contour lines.  Scroll down to view everyone's drawings.

Abstract drawings (clockwise, starting upper left) by Emilio, Jesus, Isa, and Maria

Students also worked on drawing realistic form and contour edges. Rielly's egret (upper left) and Brianna's egret (upper right) show how they used positive and negative space to find the form and contours of the bird's body. Ashley's study sketches of the aloe vera plant (below) show how she drew the contours of the leaves; then added lighter and darker tonal values. BIG steps into drawing realistically!

 
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Weeks, 2, 3, & 4: Form, Contours, Positive/Negative Space

 Lots of excellent drawing happening here! We started learning to draw realistically while learning to see positive and negative space and draw contour edges. Ashley's study sketches of the egret, shown above, are wonderful examples of making corrections to show accurate, realistic curves in the neck.

Jesus' dragonfly sketch (upper left) shows spot-on proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes) and realistic contour edges. Luis took his jaguar to large format paper while keeping accurate proportions. He also explored various graphite pencils.

Louden Nelson Sketchers continued with solid progress in drawing with lines and shapes. Azalia's tiger (upper left) shows how she drew on top of mistakes to find accurate proportions. The proportions of Isa's touch (upper right) are very well drawn.

Jasmine made some cool Halloween sketches while looking at one of my how-to-draw books.

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