Scholastic Magazine Assignment - How to Read Art - DUE TODAY

Your assignment is to read the Scholastic magazine, How to Read Art.
There are two sets of questions to answer.

• Summarize
• Reading Review

Please do not write the answers on the question sheets.

In a new blog post titled Scholastic - How to Read art, write down both the questions and answers.

This assignment is due today by the end of class.

Upload Day

Today we will upload the last few classes of work.

You should have the following uploaded already:

Ellipse Practice

• ellipses and sketchy practice

Drawing in Proportion - Units of Measure

• Various Tubes

You should upload these exercises today:
Drawing in Proportion

• Cones
• Squirt Bottle

Finding Angles

• Box on Paper
• Tube, box, and paper

Value and Shading

• Value scale practice
• Value scale worksheet
• Shaded forms

Finding Angles - The Pencil and Clock Trick

When you are drawing object you also need to find correct angles.

Use the following technique to sight the angles with pencils.

Tilt your pencil to align with a feature in your image.

Then compare it to the horizontal border of your paper. 

The angle should be as close to the actual angle as possible.

It might help to imagine the angles as hands on a clock. What time would the angle above be?

Continue the process until you find all the angles...

Drawing in Proportion Using Units of Measure

Today we will begin to learn the skills we need make a realistic drawing.

First we need to make a drawing that is in Proportion, meaning that all elements of the object are in the correct ratio to each other.



How do I find proportion in what I draw?

Use your pencil and thumb to measure a distance on the object. This is called the Unit of Measure.

Then use the unit of Measure to find out how tall the tube is. Drop your pencil and thumb down the length of the tube and count how many widths you find.

1 width

2 widths

..and the tube is almost 3 widths tall.

Here is a link that goes into much more detail about this process.

Upload Your Drawing Exercises plus catch -up day

Upload the following drawing exercises from the last few classes...

Lines - Horizontal Vertical diagonal
Hatching
Fixed Point Circle
Spirals 

Free Contour
Arcs
Hand - Cross Contour