Upload Your Proportions and Angles Practice - 50 Points

Upload every drawing that you did of the Tubes (finding Proportions) and the box (finding angles).

Finding Angles - The Pencil and Clock Trick

When you are drawing object you also need to find correct angles.

Use the following technique to sight the angles with pencils.

Tilt your pencil to align with a feature in your image.

Then compare it to the horizontal border of your paper. 

The angle should be as close to the actual angle as possible.

It might help to imagine the angles as hands on a clock. What time would the angle above be?

Continue the process until you find all the angles...

Think about this...Do You Believe What you See?

Do You see what you believe?

or, 

Do You believe what you see?

Drawing in Proportion Using Units of Measure

Today we will begin to learn the skills we need make a realistic drawing.

First we need to make a drawing that is in Proportion, meaning that all elements of the object are in the correct ratio to each other.



How do I find proportion in what I draw?

Use your pencil and thumb to measure a distance on the object. This is called the Unit of Measure.

Then use the unit of Measure to find out how tall the tube is. Drop your pencil and thumb down the length of the tube and count how many widths you find.

1 width

2 widths

..and the tube is almost 3 widths tall.

Here is a link that goes into much more detail about this process.

Ellipse PRACTICE - Upload to Blog

We'll finish up the class today practicing drawing perfect ELLIPSES.

An Ellipse is really just a Circle that you view from an angle.

We'll use the worksheet to draw a couple of pages of these shapes.

Finish and Upload Your First Drawings

Today we will complete and upload our first drawings.

Create a blog post and title it "First Drawings"

Write at least two things that you feel were successful about your drawings, and two things that you would like to improve.

You will need to turn in your:

• Chair
• Hand
• Corner of room
• Lamp
• Self Portrait
• Tubes
• A drawing of your choice

Here is a great example of this assignment from a past class

First Drawings

You will start drawing today...

Keep the following rules in mind

NO TALKING!!!
Stay focused on YOUR drawing, no one else
Make sure all pencils and erasers are back in the tray
Keep your area neat

You will draw theses objects - Don't take more than 15 minutes per drawing

• Corner of Room
• Hand
• Face
• Tubes
• Lamp
• Stool
• Your Choice