Drawing Skills Curriculum Integration:
 Geometry

 Concepts 
NC Course of Study Objectives: 21st Century Skills:
  • Using symbols to communicate
    		• 1.02, 1.03, 1.04B.2, B.3
  • Realistic drawing
    		• 1.01, 1.06B.3
  • Line and shape
    		• 1.07, 2.01, 3.01B.3
  • Negative spaces
    		• 2.02, 3.01B.3
  • Perspective drawing
    		• 2.02, 3.02, 5.01B.3
  • Value and shading
    		• 2.02, 3.03B.3
  • Enlarging on a grid
    		• 2.04B.7

    Pencil drawing by Gonzalo, fall 2009



     Skills 

    • Communicate with symbolic images

    • Develop realistic drawing skills

    • Enlarge using a grid



     Artists 

    • M.C. Escher - 1898-1972 - Played with multiple perspectives in his impossible structures

      Multiple perspectives to confuse reality



     Words We'll Use 

    • Background: The area that appears to be farthest away or behind the other objects.

    • Foreground: The area that appears to be nearest and in front of the other objects.

    • Foreshortening: Objects that are closer appear larger than objects that are farther away.

    • Middle Ground: The area that appears between the foreground and background.

    • Perspective: Techniques for creating the illusion of 3-dimensions on a 2-dimensional surface.

    • Proportion: The relationship between the sizes of elements in an artwork. Used to enlarge or reduce a drawing accurately.

    • Scale drawing: A drawing or map that changes the size of something but keeps the proportions accurate. The scale may be 1 foot = 1 inch, 10 miles = 1 inch, etc.

    • Symbol: An image, sign, or element, such as color, that is understood, by convention or context, to suggest some other meaning.

    • Vanishing point: a point in a perspective drawing whare all the 'parallel' lines appear to converge.




     Projects 
    • For this unit we will work on a sequence of pencil drawings. Each drawing introduces one or two specific drawing skills, including line, shape, proportions, perspective, and shading.



     Keeping Busy 

    • Watercolor pencils - Vanishing point: Your name in the big lights!

    • Use 2 vanishing points to draw a complex cityscape

    • Practice enlarging or reducing a drawing accurately using a grid



     Enrichment 

    • Video tutorial: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards



     Homework/Makeup Work 

    • Use 2-point perspective on a larger sheet of paper to draw a cityscape - like the examples we looked at in class.

    • Draw in some detail the landscape you see from you house.