Rules
for class participation:
• No missed classes without a doctor’s note
• Each student will participate in each class
• All students are to track the discussion and
have completed all assignments.
Grading class participation:
• Class participation is crucial to success in
this class. Participation means showing up for each
class having completed the assignments, asking questions
about anything that seems unclear or objectionable,
offering responses, and listening to the responses of
others.
Evaluation of participation falls into the following
categories:
A-range:
• Regularly makes helpful, relevant contributions
to the discussion or critique.
• Occasionally offers observations that challenge
other participants to think about the material in new
ways.
• Actively particpates in group collaboration
discussions. B-range:
• Occasionally makes helpful, relevant contributions
to the discussion or critique.
• Actively participates in group collaboration
discussions. C-range:
• Attends regularly and actively pays attention
to the discussion or critique.
• Occasionally contributes to group collaboration
discussions. D or F-range:
• Does not attend regularly.
• Does not pay attention to the discussion or
critique.
• Does not contribute to group collaboration discussions.
Modifers:
• Missing more than two classes will lower your
grade.
• Being totally distracted or inattentive will
lower your grade.
Making contributions
to discussion means:
• Asking questions about things said in class,
that are unclear or confusing.
• Offering answers to questions asked by others
in class.
• Making claims or observations about the issues
being discussed.
• Offering support, criticisim, modification,
or clarification for claims being discussed.
• Bringing in new ideas.
• Helping us understand the issues being discussed.
• Redirecting our attention to the topic.
• Keeping us “on track.”
• Changing the subject when needed.
SKETCHBOOK ETHICS
1. Never live without a sketchbook.
2. Work in your sketchbook daily; date each drawing.
3. Use your sketchbook like a diary for remembering
places you have been with sketches, cutting and pasting
and writing.
4. Related artwork found in magazines, newspapers, flyers
should be pasted in your sketchbook with your comments.
5. Review museum shows, art-related TV programs, notes
on art books and magazines you have skimmed.
6. Copy master drawings and sign them “After _________”
(the artist’s name and important data).
7. Thumbnail sketches as preliminary drawings of class
and homework assignments.
8. Use your sketchbook to explore media,
9. Practice sketching spaces & people as they move
or sit around.
10. Drawings need not be “finished.” You
need quantity of works and quality of observations in
your sketchbook.
11. Make sure all loose work is pasted down so nothing
will fall out of your book.
12. Carry your sketchbook with you at all times and
to each drawing class (and beyond class). It will be
evaluated periodically.
13. You may use the sketchbook for some homeworks and
assignments.
14. If you are brave, exchange the sketchbook with another
student.
15. Enjoy in creating a new habit.
HEADSTART
IN ART Fall 2014
Session 1 -
September 24
Introduction to the Course
Perception and Observation methods and
other sighting techniques;
“how to start drawing”; introduction to
the linear composition schemes Sketchpad
Various pencils
HOMEWORK:
Fill-up the pocket size sketchbook in a week,using line
and composition elements; follow a theme/concept
Mark making using synesthesia
Tonal drawing; working with light and shadow
(gray scale); basic shading techniques;:
hatching, crosshatching, blending & stippling
Various pencil Natural and synthetic charcoal
HOMEWORK:
Make 6 drawing of the same object. Use various tonal & line tecniques.
Session 3 - October 8
Composition & proportion:
Positive/Negative space; measuring
Composition methods: cropping, symmetry, dynamics &
other compositional strategies Charcoal, pencils, conte
crayons
HOMEWORK:
Working on Project 01
Session 4
- October 15 Project 01
in class presentation
Session 5 - October 22 Figure drawing (model)
Body parts: anatomy for artists (bones, muscles)
FOCUS: Head & portrait studies HOMEWORK:
Pencils, charcoal, conte crayons Self-portrait:
“15
minutes of fame” using the erasure technique
Session 6 - October 29 Figure drawing (model)
body structure & proportions;
body in motion FOCUS: hands & feet Materials:
pen & ink
Water based ink, pen and brush
HOMEWORK:
Sketchbook swapping project:Send & Receive,
a collaboration between two students. Preliminary sketches
Gesture drawing here & wiki advice on gesture here
Session 7 - November 5
Figure drawing (model)
Figure in motion (model drawing)
Human figure as artistic inspiration,
dynamics & movement
Action, intervention, time based art;
Stage design: costumed figure and the background HOMEWORK:
Work on Project 02 Figure study in FULL SIZE
Session 8 - November 12 Project 02 in
class presentations of figure drawings
Session9 - November 19
Translating 3D into / 2D Spatial representations:
Perspective rules & other spatial projections Mixed techniques 3D model making
HOMEWORK:
"My imaginary space" drawing form the 3D model
