ART 130B INTERMEDIATE DRAWING

EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK

Charcoal on gray paper
Human Skull on gray paper

Female portrait

Charcoal on gray paper

Male portrait

Pumpkins and Squash

Painted Bottles

Perspective composition

Imagined perspective composition

horse skull

Imagined perspective composition

Stainless items

Imagined perspective composition

BASIC DRAWING OVERVIEW

I. CONCEPTS

A. The 5 basic elements of art (line, shape, value, texture, color)

B. Organization of the picture plane (composition, design, figure/ground)

C. Seeing and/or representation (objective, subjective, schematic)

D. Historical overview (past and contemporary)

II. APPROACHES

A. Line

1. Contour
2. Gesture
3. Attributes (expressive, mechanical, thick/thin, dark/light, implied, etc.)

B. Shape

1. Geometric/organic
2. Figure/ground, positive/negative
3. Differences between shape and form

C. Value

1. The value scale in various media (percentage as a way to talk of value)

a. Ink---washes, cross hatching, stippling
b. Charcoals-vine, compressed, charcoal pencils (additive and subtractive approaches)
c. Graphite---crosshatch‹rubbing.
d. Gradation and step gradation

2. Objective value

a. Light across form---highlight, light, shadow, core shadow, reflected light, cast shadow Local color

3. Subjective value

D. Texture

1. Actual (surface, materials, collage)
2. Simulated
3. Invented
4. Relationship to pattern, repetition

E. Color-(optional)

1. Hue, Value and Intensity.
2. Local color, optical color, arbitrary color

F. Space

1. Overlapping shapes or planes
2. Size and scale
3. Aerial or atmospheric perspective
4. Linear perspective
5. Observational perspective (sighting, triangulation, ratios)
6. Subjective/abstract/ ambiguous/ internal

G. Composition

1. View finder
2. Thumbnails
3. Comparisons through critiques, viewing books and slides

H. Sources

1. Direct observation
2. Photo sources---use of gridding to blow-up
3. Imagination--visualization, memory, dreams, hallucination
4. Abstraction or non-objective
5. Combining sources

I. Materials

1. Ink, charcoa1, graphite, erasers
2. Papers
3. Supports (drawing boards)
4. Care of the work (fixative, glassine, portfolios, matting/framing)

J. Analytical thinking

1. Define the problem, understand the limitations
2. Brainstorming
3. Choosing
4. Execution
5. Critique (trying different critique models)
6. Gaining objectivity (viewing upside down, in a mirror, reducing lens)

III. VOCABULARY AND BOOK LIST---to be compiled from faculty submissions

Copyright Raymond Holbert 2005:Use of these images is prohibited without written permission from the author.

Email: rholbert@ccsf.cc.ca.us

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ART 130B INTERMEDIATE DRAWING

EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK

Charcoal on gray paperHuman Skull on gray paper

Charcoal on gray paper

Human Skull on gray paper

Female portrait

Charcoal on gray paper

Male portrait

Pumpkins and Squash

Painted Bottles

Perspective composition

Imagined perspective composition

horse skull

horse skull

Imagined perspective composition

Stainless items

Imagined perspective composition

BASIC DRAWING OVERVIEW

Copyright Raymond Holbert 2005:Use of these images is prohibited without written permission from the author.

Charcoal on gray paper
Human Skull on gray paper