College Drawing: Ridl

Evaluation Criteria for Sketchbook Pages: 

1. Selection of subject! (evidence that you are seeing the everyday with Imagination...not just filling the requirements...we've SEEN all of these things before...how can you let us see them with fresh eyes?) 

2. Evidence of careful observation (good use of proportion...or distortions are enhancing the work not detracting from it)

3. Compositional Strength/Arrangement on the page... (vary composition!--i.e. not always the same layout!...use of overlap, space, layer, etc). Try to really FILL each page and make it come alive visually! Check out examples online and linked to moodle for additional ideas for composition and layout! 

4. Use of Line + Value + Imaginative use of materials! 

5. Inventiveness/Emergence of a personal artistic voice 

Subjects to include (with your own artistic vision):

1. crazy collection from art-room (pen and ink/watercolor or acrylic)

2. breakfast (pen and ink, watercolor)

3. 3 or more chairs (mixed media/collage element) 

4. supermarket shelves or produce (pen and ink/watercolor) 

5. a closet (start with a background on your paper...then continue with your choice of material) 

6.  fields with telephone poles (pencil + pen and ink)

7. library (add a collage element...possibly print out a photo and draw OVER this) 

8. intricate patterns (any kind of pen...ballpoint, sharpie, superfine, india ink) 

9. a collection of at least 6 of something that you draw (your choice of materials) 

10. a collection of texture details (your choice of material) 

11.  downtown OR people (your choice of materials)

12.  choice, choice, choice, choice

(Materials to work with!/things to try: pen and ink, pencil, marker, sharpie, watercolor, acrylic, collage/scraps of paper, printed out photos...adding text, staining a page first, cut out elements, use of negative space layering)!