Contents

Class Procedures and Homework

INTRODUCTION: Goals, Principles and Planning

J. Gitlow

1. OBSERVATION:
• train the eye
• how 3-D form relates to a flat surface
2. HUMAN SKELETAL STRUCTURE
3. AXES/SKELETON + MASS
• add form to basic structure
4. STRUCTURE/AXES/MASS
• particular descriptive shapes
5. OUTER FORM AS A RESULT OF INNER STRUCTURE
• contour description
6. STRUCTURE REVIEW AND GESTURE DRAWINGS
7. GESTURE
• finding movement: extended to long poses
8. HEADS
• structure, proportions, individual variations
9. TONES/VALUES USED TO MODEL FORM
10. TONE/VALUE + LINE
• white Conte or chalk on black paper
11. REPEAT TONE + LINE
• white on black
12. STRAIGHT LINES ONLY
• add tones
13. RECAP
• gesture, blind contour, straight lines, tone + line and INNER STRUCTURE
14. LINE: QUALITIES/ COMPOSITION/ DESIGN
15. LINE EXERCISES
• varieties of line qualities
16. INK WASH
• gesture - wash + line (or watercolor wash)
17. INK WASH: FEELING and PROCESS
18. FORM and FEELINGS/EXPRESSION
• fast sketches, for particular feelings
19. FEELINGS: EMOTION + SPACE + LINES, TONES, COLOR

FINAL DAYS: one pose + warm-up exercises:  Final Days #1, Final Days #2