8. This Week in Class (October 9-13)

Monday: Introduction to gesture drawing...why gesture?...(taking in the WHOLE; understanding underlying structure; helping with compositional unity from the start!)

Tuesday Block:  practice lots of fast mass gesture; move to lots of line gesture, combo of mass and line, sustained gesture.

Thursday: more work time on gesture; demonstrate how to use negative space in these drawings too!

review...what are we DOING??? Creating observational drawings that demonstrate the following things (among others)

1. your ability to see the WHOLE and suggest forms even without nailing down every detail

2. your ability to show relationships between forms (i.e. size/proportion)

3. your ability to use line in ways other than pure outline

4. your ability to use negative space both to SIGHT the objects and to create contrast between forms...(i.e. sometimes you might actually draw the negative space and other times you might just use it too situate objects)  

Friday:  add in line gesture + eraser demo...more gesture drawing... Discuss: Is your drawing realistic??? YES...and also NO...why??...Sustained gesture drawing 


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