Realism+Study+Homework+Schedule


 * Due Date || Description ||
 * ===**October 10, 2010**=== || ===Selecting an Image=== ||
 * ===**October 14, 2010**=== || ===Drawing Grid on Image=== ||
 * ===**October 27, 2010**=== || ===Grid Sketch on Drawing Paper=== ||
 * ===**November 11, 2010**=== || ===Drawing Study using Grid=== ||
 * ===**December 5, 2010**=== || ===Color Study using Grid=== ||
 * ===**December 9, 2010**=== || ===Realism Study Summative Assessment=== ||

Homework: Selecting an Image
__//Due Date: October 10, 2010//__

You need to bring an image to class. (magazine, photo, est.) A subject or object should dominate this image. This subject/object will be focus of drawing study later on. The subject/object portion of the image should be approximately 3 to 5 inches square (8 cm to 12 cm). Not too much more than 5 inches because one of the objectives of the Realism Study is to learn the skill of enlargement.

This homework assigment may seem menial to some, but should be taken seriously because several hours of your time will be spent studying the image. Therefore, the image should be of great interest to you and within your skill and work habit level. An image with too little detail will have you spending your hours not be challenged (a.k.a boring) and an image with too much detail may have you spending hours being frustrated.

Click on Selecting an Image Exemplar to see an example of a successful image.

Homework: Drawing Grid on Image
__//Due Date: October 14, 2010//__

Your main objective is to begin to understand the value of organizing space. You will demonstrate your skill in ruler manipulation by measuring your picture's size and breaking image down into equal areas. This can be done in inches or by centimeters. Generally ½ by ½ inch or one by one centimeter square work best. Then use the ruler to draw straight lines to their corresponding measurements.

You have now organized your space into a grid. Also, your image has essentially been broken down into dozens of small images. Thinking of your images as parts of a whole is critical to being successful in this study.

Click on Drawing Grid on Image Exemplar to see an example of a successful grid.

Homework: Grid Sketch on Drawing Paper
__//Due Date: October 27, 2010//__

Your main objective is stated clearly in title. You need to sketch a grid on a piece of drawing paper. The key word is to sketch or draw lightly. You really want to sketch your grid lines as light as you can, but at the same time being visible. This reason for this is that you are going to erase every grid line after you have used them to help you draw your image.

The grid lines spacing depends on how much you want to enlarge your original image. Also, your enlargement depends on whether you have divided you image by one centimeter or half inch measurement. Keep with the same measurement system and generally doubling or tripling you measurement is appropriate. (1/2 inch = 1 or 1 and ½ inches, 1 centimeter = 2 or 3 centimeters on the drawing paper) If your image is really detailed, you may find tripling its sizes works best, because it give you more space to draw all the details.

Click on Grid Sketch on Drawing Paper Exemplar to see an example of a successful sketch.

Homework: Drawing Study using Grid
__//Due Date: November 11, 2010//__

You will begin to understand more clearly the value of organizing space. You need to think of your image as parts or manageable bits of information. You are going to take each part and draw that part and worry about that part. Therefore, you are going to draw you image part by part. (very similar to building a Lego design - Lego piece by Lego piece)

In summary, you will demonstrate your skill in using the grid to first organize space into manageable bits of information and then successfully draw that information. Secondly, you will use the grid to enlarge the image equally and proportionally.

Click on Drawing Study using Grid Exemplar to see an example of a successful drawing using the grid.

Homework: Color Study using Grid
__//Due Date: December 5, 2010//__

The objective of this study is for you to first see the color, then analyze that color and finally create that color. Your portrait collage study is fill with numerous colors AND 8, 16, 24 or whatever number of colors that makes your color pencil box does not directly represent many of these colors. This creates a problem. You have to create those colors by blending.

First you look at the color (on your image) and think, “What am I seeing?” Start by noticing the dominant color you see and then analyze how your color is not like that color. For example, you many see the dominant color is red. But the red you see in the collage is not quite pure red. It is darker then a normal red and also cooler. Valuable information comes from your thinking. All you need to do is a quick few tests to find your color.

First you know that you need red, the dominant color. Then a darker color = black. Finally, a cooler color = possibly blue or violet. Then you blend these colors together by [|cross-hatching] (ink drawing technique that can be adapted to color blending). Since your dominate color is red, it will is the first to go down on the paper and then you add a little black, more red, little blue, more red and so on till you get your color. Periodically, you check your test by placing the color your making near the image's color. If your color gets too dark or cool you may need to start over on another test until you blend the matching color.

Once you have figured the blend of matching color you can proceed to add color with confidence on your artwork. This “testing” process can be unitized every time you come to a new color. As your seeing and coloring skills develop you may not need to “test” as often.

Click on Realism Study Rubric to see your assessment tool. Click on Color Study using Grid Exemplar to see an example of a successful coloring using the grid.

Homework: Realism Study Summative Assessment
__//Due Date: December 9, 2010//__

The Realism Study is designed to form or build your knowledge and skills. Therefore, the first four due dates for the project are graded purely on completion. The fifth due date, Color Study, will be given a provisional grade and a formative assessment. This formative assessment will have information stating areas in the study that are successful, areas that need improvement and possibly highlight areas that I need to re-teach. You then have the choice to take the suggestions and improve your study before the summative assessment on JUNE 1 or accept the provisional grade as your final.