Art 101 Basic Drawing Handouts

Art 101: Basic Drawing

by Kentee Suone Pasek

Basic Shapes with Shadow and Layout

Here is the handout I gave out in class for practice:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more on the class visit http://www.weehawkenarts.org/art101_drawing.html

Basic Drawing Information Class Art 101 by Kentee Suone Pasek

I am posting my handout for Art 101 class for

Date: This Wednesday Night (September 28th)

Location: St. John's Church in Ouray.

Time: Class is from  6-8pm. 

Cost: This class is FREE!  (Drop in rates after this wednesday is $28 per class)

Subject: Art 101 Basic Drawing

Here is the handout but remember the best instruction comes from class participation in order to really learn! Really learning how to draw is first seeing, and then doing!

Anything you put on paper is an illusion of what actually exists:
     • All objects have a highlight, medium light, low light, shadow and reflection
     • Objects begin as:
              o Ball
              o Rectangle
              o Cylinder
              o Square
     • Draw what you actually see not what you think you see
     • Make the right choice of lines, shadows, and highlights.
     • Composition choice of how you place an object on a piece of paper is
         just as important as the shape itself.

Keep Going:
     • Take time to finish a picture from start to finish
     • Remember the more you work on the picture the better it is.
     • If something is not working stand back and squint at the object you are
          drawing and then at your work.
     • Get another opinion.

Shadows:
     • Deep dark black shadows will keep your object on your surface.
     • Make sure you keep the shadows deep and ground an object.
     • Look for reflective shadows as well.

Highlights
     • Super light spot helps shape the object
     • A lighter highlight will help around the super light spot.
     • Highlights are important to help shape the object.

Direction of your pencil
     • The direction you shade needs to be the direction of your object.
     • Cross hatch is a good shadow technique
     • Make each pencil direction count!
     • Lighter directions of your pencil can make sure your object seems round
         and not flat.

3D into 2D
     • Think how you can make this 3D object 2D. Where is the curves, the
          shadows, the highlights to make this object round?
     • How do you take something and make it the right shape. Sometimes
          what you see will just be weird on paper. Think about your painting
          and how you begin to lay it out on the paper. Then think “Is this a
          shape others will understand?”

Layout or Composition
     • What is the best way to take what I want to paint and make it “real”
           and “understandable”?
     • Is my composition of what I want to paint make since to me? To others?
     • What do I really want to focus on in this painting?
     • What do I want to feel?
     • Others to see?
     • What is my voice?
     • Where is my object on the canvas?
     • Does my Negative Space make an interesting shape?
     • Does my Positive Space make an interesting shape?

Jewelry Giclees!

Here is the Gerber Daisy Big Blue Necklace on Stirling Silver Neckring.  The image is a canvas Giclee printed with pigment ink.