Art 3: Advanced Homework Assignments First Nine Weeks

Art 3: Advanced Homework assignments First nine weeks

All assignments are to be done in your sketchbook and should take 30-45 minutes to complete per week. NO homework will be taken late unless there is an excused absence on Friday. Assignments are due every Friday.

Week 1: Basket

In your sketchbook, draw a woven basket with graphite pencils of different values. You can choose any style of basket, from a Navajo patterned basket to an Easter basket with a big handle. Focus on the pattern of the weaving and the shadows created by the space between fibers. Use 5 different values that you learned about in class; light, medium-light, medium, medium-dark, & dark.

Week 2: Staircase

In your sketchbook, draw a staircase that you have selected from an internet search. There is a wide variety of architectural styles from ancient to ultra-modern. Draw the steps with graphite pencils, showing the shadows created between the rise and run of the step. Use perspective to show the steps going back into space, appearing to shrink as they rise. Remember each step is like a rectangular box!

Week 3: Water drop

In your sketchbook, draw an enlarged water droplet, at least 3 inches long. Add as many details as you can, including reflections. Shade it to look 3-dimensional by looking for light and dark areas. Use your eraser to pull out lighter values over the shaded areas. Choose either graphite or charcoal.

Week 4: Peanut

In your sketchbook, draw a larger-than-life peanut in the shell. Your goal is to use the technique of “implied texture” to make a convincing shell. Follow the ridges with dark and light to make it look like a grooved surface. The peanut should be 4-5 times its regular size. Include the shadow underneath. For those of you with peanut allergies, please use the printout only.

Week 5: Silver Spoon

This assignment requires an actual piece of silverware for a model. Set your spoon down where light can shine on it and create reflections. Draw the outside contour of the spoon and then fill it in with shades of gray. The lightest areas should be kept the color of the paper. Draw spoon life sized.

Week 6: Pine Cone

Use a real pine cone to capture the deep shadows and protruding spines of a pine cone – make sure to use an opened one. Make the spines look like they are poking out from the center using your eraser to create various shades of gray.

Week 7: Moon

In your sketchbook, draw a picture of the moon, capturing the light and shadow to make it look round and showing the surface texture (craters, etc.) Add a night sky around the moon with stars and try an aura around the moon. The sky does not need to fill the page, just give the moon a setting. Add a face or a cow if you like. ;o)

Week 8: Clouds

Instead of your pencil, use your blending stick to draw a page full of clouds. Stratus or cumulonimbus, clouds depend on dark and light shading for their form. Use as many values as you can, and make them fluffy. Choose a medium or light sky as a background to offset the clouds, add the sun if you like. *warning* clouds seem simple but they are actually very complicated to draw! Take your time!