Class 15. Line Exercises

Line #2

Show many master drawings for variety of line quality and how these affect description and emotional meaning. Compare lines alone and lines combined with  values.

STUDENTS: Five 3-4 minute exercises:

1. All straight lines

2. Construct from the inside out, skeletal structure to outer form; repeat this until uncertainties are cleared up

3. Use fat, abrupt, rough, dark lines with the side of a thick charcoal

4. Thin, lyrical lines with a pointed charcoal

5. Combine thin and rough, broken lines (any way, any tool) that stop and start. (ALWAYS avoid monotonous “outlines”.)
 
   ------------good time for model rest/homework break here-------------

STUDENTS:

1. Brief BLIND CONTOUR warm-up with NON-DOMINANT HAND.

2. Next pose up to 10 minutes if time: LINE ONLY, use viewfinder, focus on positive/negative space, composition, observation, LIVING line. Then block in negative space with anything.

3. If time: Three BLIND CONTOUR DRAWINGS ON ONE PAPER, any color 18 x 24. Three different color cray-pas that will show on the paper and “work” together. Viewfinder. Three poses each about 10 minutes. Make 1st figure with color #1 off to one side, BIG--parts go off the page; 2nd figure with color #2 overlaps 1st; 3rd figure with color #3 overlaps somewhere to make the best composition. All lines go to page edges. Try to keep the scale of the 3 figures similar. More cray-pas can be added any way later, the overlaps create many sub-shapes.

HOMEWORK: continue on last assignment