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The Assignment:
Complete a reference section in your sketchbook that illustrates the basic forms and some common uses. Follow the basic step-by-step directions below to add the "Basic Forms " section to your sketchbook
Mounting the Basic Forms sketches into your sketchbook:
(Always save a space at the top or along the side for a page title.)
- Open your sketchbook to the next blank page.
- If necessary, paint or prepare the page for new information.
- Carefully tear or creatively cut out your best examples of the four basic forms found in every-day items limiting the amount of negative space in each sketch (crop the drawings).
- The four basic forms are the cube, the cylinder, the cone, and the sphere.
- Creatively arrange your examples on the page you intend to mount them allowing some room for a caption next to each one (see expectations below).
- Glue in the samples of each basic shape making sure the samples are well glued down so that they do not become dislodged from the repeated turning of pages.
Authoring the Basic Forms Page
- Label the pages of your sketchbook at the top or along the side neatly with the title, “Basic Forms.”
- Using colored pencils, draw the basic forms as you see them in your drawings and label them in the caption space below. Each drawing should be labeled according to the form most readily apparent.
- On each page in full, complete sentences, and in a visually creative way, answer the following questions correctly:
- What do you think this sketch technique will work best for?
- How long did it take you to do the drawings on this page?
- As you've completed this page in Advanced Drawing and Painting, compare and contrast this addition and process with the former. Be sure to use specific references and cite the pages they may be found in your sketchbook.
Include two additional “facts” about these drawings (ex.: where they were drawn, what time of day it was, date, etc.)
The Learning Goals:
(This is what the addition will be graded on at the end)
- Completion- Follow all of the directions and ensure the project is complete with titles, sub headings, all visual and written information.
- Density- Pages should be PACKED with information. So much so that a person should not be able to place a quarter on the page without it touching either written or visual information.
- Design- Carefully plan out your pages and specifically place items like titles, subheadings, pictures, and written information.
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