Week 2 Day 1 Summary

A drawing is made up of hundreds, if not thousands of individual lines and marks. Every line in a drawing should serve at least 2 purposes. The first is to communicate what the literal form is. The second purpose is to express an idea or an emotion with your line work.

Project

Using 18x24” Paper, make 3 Ever-Changing Line pages

Select between 3 and 6 of your lines and practice replicating them on the page

Week 2 Day 2 Summary

Lines and marks can begin to communicate distinct emotions to a viewer through the way they are drawn. By understanding the similarities of how people express specific emotions through lines, we can better communicate the emotions we choose.

Project

For the first part of your project you will participate in an emotional line drawing project while the video is running. Next, you can repeat the exercise and experiment with ways to intensify the emotions. You can also have family or friends participate in the project to get a sense of how other people express these emotions through lines.

Week 2 Day 3 Summary

Today you’ll learn how to take your light foundational drawings (that you learned to create in WEEK ONE) and darken them with dynamic lines and marks.

If you haven’t gone through WEEK ONE of THE ART & SCIENCE OF DRAWING, a brief recap will be given of the relevant tools and techniques. 

Project

Using the teacup diagram PROVIDED in the video, lightly draw the teacup 3 times. Over each of the three teacup drawings, explore a different method of dynamic mark making. You’re welcome to try out the methods you saw Brent use in the demonstration or you’re welcome to experiment with some of your own.

Week 2 Day 4 Summary

Today you’ll explore how to use lines and marks that give the viewer a sense of what your subject feels like to the touch. The heaviness or lightness, hardness or softness, and many other tactile sensations can be communicated to a viewer by the kinds of lines and marks you use in your drawings. 

Project

Choose a pair of objects with opposing tactile sensations. Draw each of them beginning with a light foundation of basic shapes and then explore lines and marks that will communicate the different tactile sensations of each of these objects.

Week 2 Day 5 Summary

Atmosphere can be use in drawing in 2 different ways. We can use atmospheric perspective to make objects appear closer by increasing their contrast, or further away by decreasing their contrast. We an also create an atmosphere, or mood, by activating the air around the subject.

Project

Observe atmospheric perspective out in the world and, if possible, do a drawing on location that captures the atmospheric perspective you observe.