Drawing Class
I am going to write a little about one of Holly's high school art classes that I put together for her. I intended to write about it as we went through the class, but as it happened, I was too busy. I managed to write two blog posts about it and I will republish those here. I can't go into great detail or publish all sorts of examples because of limited time.
This is the syllabus that I wrote for her class. In parentheses you will see either an artist whose work I used for an example of the topic for that week or you will find further detail.
Line
Week 1 Line (controlled hand)
Week 2 Blind Contour Drawing (Matisse, Picasso)
Week 3 Gesture Drawing
Weeks 4 - 5 Cross-Contour Line (H Moore)
Weeks 6 Texture (study of tonal value)
Weeks 7 -8 Assessment assignment (small rotten branch)
Composition
Weeks 9 and 10 Sighting and Using a Viewfinder (Vermeer)
Weeks 11 - 13 Value in composition (Value balance in composition) (Rembrandt)
Weeks 14 - 16 Ink and washes (further study of tonal value)
Weeks 17 - 18 Subtractive drawing
Weeks 19 - 20 One-point and Two-point Perspective (review)
Week 21 Transparent Construction (applications of perspective)
Weeks 22 - 23 Assessment assignment (landscape)
Drawing the Human Form
Weeks 24 - 25 Skeletal structure (drawing parts of skeleton)
Weeks 26 - 27 Study of full skeleton (study of proportions, drawing full skeleton using skeleton model)
Week 28 Bony landmarks of skeleton, effects on fleshed figure
Week 29 Muscle structure
Weeks 30 - 32 Foreshortening and proportions
Weeks 33 - 36 Assessment: Practice drawing human form from model
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