Assignment 9 // Week 9
Come next week with more composition thumbnails and explorations for your final project. You can take advantage of the photocopier in class, and we will give you 14" x 17" marker paper for the final composition.
Assignment 8 // Week 8
Continue to explore your final project storyline through thumbnails and start creating options for your final composition - make sure you convey a story through your composition!
Assignment 7 // Week 7
Follow the procedures from class to create your own whistle that fills a sheet of marker paper. Remember to design in 2D and render in 3D. Be thoughtful about your selection of perspective and degree of convergence to tell a story with your own whistle. Your work should be fully shaded with markers.
Assignment 6 // Week 6
Continuing your work in class drawing shapes from the real models we had on display, explore possible compositions in small, quick thumbnails. Then, select one layout and create a full composition, keeping shapes light in value. Make one shape most important (location, contrast, linework), make one or two shapes less so, and tie the shapes together with thin shadows. You may find it helpful to create an 'original' with construction lines and then make a copy and explore adding shadows (without outlines, either lighter or darker than the #3 shape side).
Assignment 5 // Week 5
This is your first design exercise. Design your initials in 3D and shade them - try out a few different layouts and styles and come up with your own personal design!
Assignment 4 // Week 4
Continue to work on creating our 4 principle shapes - cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres - using the markers for proper shading and shadows. Strive to get to a version with all 4 shapes cleanly represented.
As a bonus challenge, see if you can get the shapes to all live in the same environment - i.e., they share vanishing points and a light source.
Assignment 3 // Week 3
1) Fill one 11"x17" page with cylinder explorations. Experiment with different horizon lines and vanishing point locations to get some very wide ellipses and some very narrow ones.
2) On one page (11x17" preferred), draw your initials extruded on a cube - one letter per face of the cube. Drawing bigger will help for this assignment. As always, design in 2-D and execute in 3-D as shown in class. Map out your letters in squares and use the diagonal lines to measure their proportions - just like we did to map a circle in a flat square into an ellipse on a cube in perspective (see posted pictures from the whiteboard to jog your memory). If you have challenging curvy letters, remember you can reflect or flip your letters to put the complicated curves away from.
Additionally, we will be giving out markers and marker pads in class next week. If you have decided to opt-out of the class fee, please make sure you bring your own supplies to class next week!
Assignment 2 // Week 2
1) Fill one 11”x17” page with cubes. Experiment with different horizon lines and vanishing point locations. Try to challenge yourself by drawing some cubes whose vanishing points are off the page. Also experiment with some of the rotations discussed in class.
2) On a second 11”x17” piece of paper, construct an object out of cubes. Get creative - we’ve seen castles, igloos, lego statues, your name as the Hollywood Sign. The important thing is to pick a subject of interest to you.
Assignment 1 // Week 1
Pen preferred. 11”x17” paper preferred.
Pick an object in your dorm room.
1) Draw many, tiny, quick “thumbnail” studies from many angles of that object. Fill up a page.
2) Pick your favorite thumbnail. Take a new piece of paper and draw that view larger and in more detail.
Come next week with more composition thumbnails and explorations for your final project. You can take advantage of the photocopier in class, and we will give you 14" x 17" marker paper for the final composition.
Assignment 8 // Week 8
Continue to explore your final project storyline through thumbnails and start creating options for your final composition - make sure you convey a story through your composition!
Assignment 7 // Week 7
Follow the procedures from class to create your own whistle that fills a sheet of marker paper. Remember to design in 2D and render in 3D. Be thoughtful about your selection of perspective and degree of convergence to tell a story with your own whistle. Your work should be fully shaded with markers.
Assignment 6 // Week 6
Continuing your work in class drawing shapes from the real models we had on display, explore possible compositions in small, quick thumbnails. Then, select one layout and create a full composition, keeping shapes light in value. Make one shape most important (location, contrast, linework), make one or two shapes less so, and tie the shapes together with thin shadows. You may find it helpful to create an 'original' with construction lines and then make a copy and explore adding shadows (without outlines, either lighter or darker than the #3 shape side).
Assignment 5 // Week 5
This is your first design exercise. Design your initials in 3D and shade them - try out a few different layouts and styles and come up with your own personal design!
Assignment 4 // Week 4
Continue to work on creating our 4 principle shapes - cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres - using the markers for proper shading and shadows. Strive to get to a version with all 4 shapes cleanly represented.
As a bonus challenge, see if you can get the shapes to all live in the same environment - i.e., they share vanishing points and a light source.
Assignment 3 // Week 3
1) Fill one 11"x17" page with cylinder explorations. Experiment with different horizon lines and vanishing point locations to get some very wide ellipses and some very narrow ones.
2) On one page (11x17" preferred), draw your initials extruded on a cube - one letter per face of the cube. Drawing bigger will help for this assignment. As always, design in 2-D and execute in 3-D as shown in class. Map out your letters in squares and use the diagonal lines to measure their proportions - just like we did to map a circle in a flat square into an ellipse on a cube in perspective (see posted pictures from the whiteboard to jog your memory). If you have challenging curvy letters, remember you can reflect or flip your letters to put the complicated curves away from.
Additionally, we will be giving out markers and marker pads in class next week. If you have decided to opt-out of the class fee, please make sure you bring your own supplies to class next week!
Assignment 2 // Week 2
1) Fill one 11”x17” page with cubes. Experiment with different horizon lines and vanishing point locations. Try to challenge yourself by drawing some cubes whose vanishing points are off the page. Also experiment with some of the rotations discussed in class.
2) On a second 11”x17” piece of paper, construct an object out of cubes. Get creative - we’ve seen castles, igloos, lego statues, your name as the Hollywood Sign. The important thing is to pick a subject of interest to you.
Assignment 1 // Week 1
Pen preferred. 11”x17” paper preferred.
Pick an object in your dorm room.
1) Draw many, tiny, quick “thumbnail” studies from many angles of that object. Fill up a page.
2) Pick your favorite thumbnail. Take a new piece of paper and draw that view larger and in more detail.