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Grading Categories Category Scores (1-

20 points)

Following Directions: Listens without interruption during explanation of assignment. Takes time to understand and follow directions to insure success of assignment.

1-20

Craftsmanship: Works neatly and carefully, paying attention to details. 1-20

Effort: Puts in effort beyond the bare minimum required to complete an assignment. Makes reasonable attempt to meet deadlines.

1-20

(variable: according to learning objective of assignment)Preparedness: Brings necessary supplies to class. Gathers work forlder, materials and supplies at the beginning of class.- - -----or------ - -Color: Well planned and carefully applied according to instructions- - -----or------ - -Value: Shows a full range of value, with consistent application.

1-20

(variable: according to learning objective of assignment)Daily Work Habits: Works consistently and quietly; gathers necessary material early and gets to work. Stays in seat at desk to work. Clean-up at appropriate time.- - -----or------ - -Composition: Page is filled, balanced, avoiding symmetry, large inactive negative spaces, and tangents.

1-20

minus late deduction

Total Score at Right Sum of above scores

Sketchbook EvaluationEach of four categories is worth up to 25 points.

Grading Categories Category Scores (1-20 points)

Fulfilled all points of assignment 1-25

Used entire page 1-25

Page is well designed / interesting composition

1-25

Time and effort (1 & 1/2 hours) is evident in craftsmanship and detail.

1-25

minus late deduction

Total score: sum of above

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -

"Expressive Lines"Try to make as many types of

lines as you can. Repeat each type of line several

times. Try all types of lines: wavy, curly,

jagged, dashes, fat, thin, etc. Fill your page with as many lines

as you can.


"Directional Lines"Unlike the expressive, directional lines

are very precise. Lines should all be the same thickness. These lines look as if

they are bending and overlapping. This is not "free" like expressive lines) but

calculated constant, and even.Start anywhere on your paper. Move in a certain direction. stop and begin in a

new direction Keep lines in a group the same distance

apart. Try to go in every direction at least

once.

"Echoes"Begin by drawing an abstract, free-form line on the page. Then use other lines to echo the original line,

flowing with it, into it, and away from it. Add color on or between the lines.

Even very young children can merely trace outside a line. You must create new variations away from your

first lines to make it look different !


-- - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Draw What You Hear"

- - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"2-D and 3-D Arrows"

Create a full page composition using a combination of 3-dimensional and 2-

dimensional arrows. Use overlapping to break up the spaces into interesting positive and negative shapes.

Outline with felt-tip pen. Think up an interesting color scheme and fill the shapes with colored pencil


•Special note: If you know how to letter in another language/alphabet, include that as a style, too!

"Typography Tester"Fill the page with a variety of lettering

styles. Be creative! Find a poem - a favorite song - a list of favorite sayings

- your favorite things - Perhaps start with pencil (very light)

then move to markers or colored pencil Perhaps divide your page into separate

shapes, perhaps use borders Must do's:

Include color Fill the page

Have five or more styles


PEN & INK STROKESContour Lines: Contour lines are marks that

precisely follow the curves and planes of an object.

Parallel Lines: Parallel lines are straight marks that extend in the same direction. Sketched free-hand, the lines need not have ruler straight perfection.

Crosshatching: Crosshatching consists of two or more sets of contour or parallel lines that are stroked in different directions and intersect.

Stippling: Stippling is a grouping of dots. Scribble: A scribble line is a free flowing (but

controlled) mark that loops and twists in a sketchy manner.

Wavy Lines: Wavy lines are drawn side by side in a repetitive pattern

Crisscross Lines: Crisscross lines flow with the contour of an object and are arranged in a staggered, randomly crossing manner.

"Pen & Ink Shading"There are seven basic strokes used to shade

with pen and ink.

In your sketchbook, use a minimum of five different types of

strokes to shade from black to white. Fill the page.Try to go from light to dark in the

sections.The areas can be any

shape; they don't have to be rectangles.


The Do's:Do make a flat edge on

the tip of your pencil lead by "coloring" a sharpened tip on a

piece of scrap paper. Do shade in one direction

only... then shad the opposite direction on

top. Do shade from light layers

to dark to avoid uneven transitions.

"Pencil Shading"Fill the page with overlapping shapes that

run off the page on all sides. No pos/neg spaces larger than a fistprint. Fill each pos/neg space with smooth pencil gradations (from light to dark).

The Shading Do-Nots:Do not shade with the side of your pencil. Do not smear the drawing with your finger

or a tissue. Do not start out too dark - you can always

get darker as you work. Do not use mechanical pencils. (Sorry-

won't work!)


"Blind Contour with Color Wheel"

Using your black felt-tip (not roller-balls) do two blind contours of your teachers. Use two

pages; draw one on each page. Using colored pencils, turn the most

interesting of the two blind contours into a color wheel. The colors must flow in the

order of the color wheel. Be Creative! Design the entire page.

Perhaps use a floating rectangle behind as a way to unify.

The color can go on top or behind the contour figure.

Blend the color very carefully and smoothly.You'll have to "make" some of the colors by carefully layering two colors on your page.

Maybe use some of the techniques you learned in some of your other sketchbook

assignments.

The color wheel:

Violet, Red-Violet, Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Orange-Yellow, Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green Green-Blue, Blue, Blue-

Violet


Two techniques to practice that make objects in your drawing look closer or further away:

Overlapping Change in baseline

"Bottle Landscapes"Everyone knows that things that are further away from us look smaller. But what if you

can't rely on size to tell the story? This assignment uses plastic bottles, which can

be any size. How do you make a big detergent bottle look like it's sitting behind a

little eyedrops bottle?Things that are partially covered by another object are seen as being behind the object:

(overlapping) Things that are further away are drawn

higher on the picture plane. Their bases (bottoms) will be placed higher on the page

than the bottles that are supposed to be closer.

Assignment: Take one bottle at a time to your table, and do a contour line drawing of it, starting anywhere on your page. Then do the same thing with another bottle. Fill your page with overlapping bottle shapes. Bottles

that are meant to be in front must have a base that is lower on the page than the

object that is behind it.Warning: If the bottom of your front object is

higher than the one behind it, your front object will appear to be floating in the air!


After the contour drawings are done:Add some color accents

Finish the page in an interesting way

"Full of Contours Page"Do a page full (20 to 25)

of "mini" blind and modified blind contour drawings. (May take 2

facing pages.) These are quick studies

of people/children in different positions

doing things. Perhaps --- go to a park or a sporting event of some kind. Observe

and Quickly draw people being active

Do this in pen please!!


"Everybody's Junk Drawer"1.

I think every household has a"junk drawer" - that drawer that's filled with all the "stuff" no one knows what

to do with. Open the drawer, don't move anything, and draw what you see as a

modified contour drawing.--Do the drawing very lightly in pencil-

no black marker--You can make the drawing

in a 7" x 9" rectangle.--Don't be obsessed with realism! Let

the drawing be loose! Fill the page! (or the rectangle.)

2.After completing

the pencil drawing,now outline in felt

tip marker. Then layer colored

pencil in interesting ways.

What color scheme/approach can you invent?


"Roller Coaster Contrast"You will be creating at least

six continuous bands of color. (You can think of them as loops - like flat and really long rubber

bands. )Each band must reach at least 2 sides of the paper.

Each band must cross or be crossed by at least 2

other bands. Bands should be at least 1/4" wide, with consistent

width. One path will appear to be

above another at each crossing site (you'll have to plan, and erase one set

of lines.)

Shading info: Let's assume that things that are closest to us will

get more light, and appear lighter, and that things further away from

us receive less light, and are therefore darker. As we look at the

bands you have drawn, bands passing under others seem far

away from us, and bands on top seem near. To emphasize this,

shade each band darker when it goes under another, and lighter where it passes above. (Layer

combinations of colors to achieve best darks!)

Shading: lighter on top, darker beneath

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - - "12-Part Color Wheel"

Create an interesting shape to repeat and fill with *primary colors

Create another shape to repeat and fill with **secondary colors

Create a third shape to use for ***tertiary colors

Label the color names (Notice that primaries and secondaries have their own names, but tertiary color names

are a double-name) Plan your drawing in pencil so that it

will be big on the page. OK to use object shapes - Shapes with a

related theme work best!Make it decorative! Embellish the page!

OK to make the lettering part of the design! Finish with an ink outline!

Shading info: Let's assume that things that are closest to us will

get more light, and appear lighter, and that things further

away from us receive less light, and are therefore darker. As we

look at the bands you have drawn, bands passing under

others seem far away from us, and bands on top seem near. To

emphasize this, shade each band darker when it goes under

another, and lighter where it passes above. (Layer

combinations of colors to achieve best darks!)

*Primaries: R, Y, B

**Secondaries: O, G, V***Tertiaries: All have two names:

Ex: R-O, B-G...


"What's in Your Head?"

Draw the inside of your own head What are you like? Are you: Colorful? Plain? Accurate? Disorganized? Soft? Sharp? Poetic? Focused? Musical? Funny? Dependable? Flightly? Spacey?

Numerical? Cautious? Organized? Fashionable? Rigid? Geometrical? Bright? Dull? Speedy? Mysterious? Exotic? Electric?

Please, No "Brain" Drawings, No Heads!!! Be imaginative!!! Be conceptual!!!

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Stained Glass Stroll"

Begin by drawing 1 outline shape, then overlap partially with the same shape again, letting the first one show through. Overlap again and again, creating

interesting paths across your page, filling it. Remember to plan your paths to create interesting negative shapes around them, too.

Color: With colored pencil, begin at any point and color the original shape in entirely. (Light pressure works best!) Choose another color and color the next

whole overlapping shape, even where they cross. (Easiest with analogous colors!)


"Fallen Leaves"It's fall and harvest time! Go "harvest"

some leaves!! Find several different types (shapes) of leaves and trace them into your sketchbook. These may have to be repeated several

times to make a good composition. Now divide the page into four separate

areas. Please do this creatively also! Then using colored pencils, color

each area in one of these four color schemes:

Complimentary colors: colors opposite each other on the color wheel

Analogous colors: three or more colors touching each other on the color

wheel Tints and shades: one of the above two

color schemes with white and black added to lighten or darken.

Tones: colors with their complement added- do scheme 1 or 2 in toned

colors

Remember good composition rules:

Overlap, run off the page, very the size, repeat shapes, maybe try a "floating rectangle" to create an interesting,

full page. You need to fill the page in an interesting way.

The coloring on this must be very neat and carefully done. Color fairly dark so

the color schemes show up well!


"Draw What Scares You"

Doesn't have to be spooky ghosts and traditional stuff (but it can be). What else is scary? That Chemistry test? A bad hair day? Breaking out on prom

night? The dentist? Your dad's wardrobe? A coach on a really bad day?OK to include words as part of your design! You can mix your personal scary things with traditional if you want to. Remember to keep it "G" rated, fill your

page, and use color!!


Create your very own Superhero. Your drawing must be in color and it should take up the entire page. Include your action hero's name, his/her superpowers and super-talents. Also, write what this hero's biggest pet peeve is... what do you have to do to really tick this person off? And if you did... what would they do to you? (Be inventive, not gorey, please.)

Your superhero must be original. Please do not turn in Superman, Cat Women, Spider Man, "Japanimation" or any other copies!Invent your own, please.Capes, tights are optional!

"Design Your Own Superhero"


Use Color ----- Fill the PageMake a six letter word (or more). Your word can have repeat letters (like: Betty B.) but you can't use repeat letter people. Each letter is a new solution. Plan it first so

the drawings will all fit!

"Letter-People"


"All the Letters in Your Name"

Start: At any place on your page - this example started at the lower left. Draw the first letter (from your name) with an outline shape (lower case

letters are the most interesting.)Before you draw the second letter, turn it, so that it creates interesting

negative shapes.Let the letters touch each other in order to close off more of the

negative spaces.Fill your page, adding and turning letters, and creating interesting

negative spaces between them.


But you are the only human on earth who has met them! It is up to you to tell their story! Make a full page, color composition and tell the world the news that everyone is waiting breathlessly to hear: What do they look like? What can they do? Where are they from? What language do they speak? Why are

they here? What are their names? How did they get here? Ok to include words, descriptions, or labels with your drawings. Make them

attractive, as part of your page layout. Plan the whole page of your color composition-- You can include

backgrounds and you can use more than 1 picture - like snapshots, closeups, families

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"The OTHER Meaning"

Sample Sayings ( or use others that you know )apple-pie order, apple of his eye, at the tip of my tongue, beauty is only skin deep, too big for his britches, blow hot and cold, blow your stack, bread the ice, cast pearls before swine, cat got your tongue, change of heart, chase a rainbow, chew him out, cold turkey, that's the way the cookie crumbles, cool it, costs a pretty penny, crocodile tears, don't look a gift horse in

the mouth, a fish out of water, with flying colors, follow your nose, go bananas, grasp at straws, like greased lightening, I have half a mind to..., hang loose, heart to heart talk, can't hold a candle to..., if the shoe fits, wear it, get up on the wrong side of the bed, in one ear & out the other, in a pickle, in the doghouse, keep your eyes peeled, knuckle down, laugh out of the other side of your mouth, my lips are sealed, off his rocker, off the wall, on the ball on

the wagon, over the hill, pass the buck, pay through the nose, play it by ear, play musical chairs poker face, put your best foot forward, rat race, snow job, square meal, stuffed shirt,

talk in circles, two-faced, walk on eggs.

Choose a saying or an idiom that usually doesn't mean what it actually says. Example: "Raining Cats and Dogs." Illustrate the saying in a color composition according to a literal interpretation (exactly what it says) or an alternative interpretation Don't illustrate its idiomatic meaning. Include the saying as part of the design of your full page composition Some sample sayings are below.


"Related Phrase"Illustrate a two-word phrase using drawings of objects

related to its meaning.Examples:

--- tool shed --- race car --- field goal ---

--- wild cat ------- text book --- bike path ---

--- high jump --- hot dog ------- mind meld --- chemistry lab

-------- musical instrument ----

Fill up the space! Add color! Shade for 3-D effects! Use your imagination. Originality will give

you more points.

Remember to center by placing themiddle letters in the middle of the lines

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Spiraling Spheres"Overlap circles (or other shapes) of graduated sizes, moving from smallest to largest (largest on top- draw it first) to create an illusion of movement toward you from the surface of the page. Fill the page with various sized trails.Shade one end of the spiral trail gradually darker, one end lighter to enhance the illusion of movement and depth. Your choice of colors.Create an interesting background; perhaps using analogous colors or monochromatic tints and shades to develop an ambiguous space.

The object shapes don't have to be circles!You can overlap any shapes you want to invent!Mix them up, too!

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - - "Illustrate a Joke"

- use color - fill the page - create your own drawings - don't copy another artist's joke

drawings

Choose a joke and draw the picture or pictures that go along with it.

You don't have to make the joke up, and you won't be graded on how funny it is.Remember that all material must be G-

rated, and cannot be derogatory to a group of people. If you're unsure of the appropriateness of your subject,

ask your teacher.


Fill the page; use color. Avoid large, regular negative spaces. OK if paths go off the page. Avoid tangents!

"A-maz(e)ing"Using pencil, construct a complete maze. Begin by drawing a 1.2" border around your

page.Remember that the goal is an interesting and balanced page design. Asymmetrical

designs are almost always better than symmetrical.


"Confetti Names"

Color Instructions:*For all the shapes that fall inside the pen areas, choose either warm or cool

colors (but not both). Alter the colors where a pencil line divides the area.*For all the shapes that fall outside the pen areas, use the colors of the

opposing temperature.


Example: stretch the letters to

fill the negative shapes.

"Make It Fit"Choose a phrase, saying, book title, line of a song or poem, or a quote, and draw the letters to fit the whole page. Make letters

bigger and smaller, slanted, round, whatever it takes to fill the spaces creatively using the letter shapes as

design. Stretch or shrink the letters to fill the negative spaces between letters and

words.Color in or around the letters - make a

border or include a picture or other graphic element if you like, but:

Make the letter "fits" the main idea!

Be inventive!!! Stretch, shrink, alter the shapes!


"Continuous Line Face"

Draw a face using lines that go all the way across the page from the left side to the right side without stopping. They can wander, double back, repeat, echo,

curve, and change direction but they can't stop before they get to the other side. Use your imagination. Don't copy my sample.

Do a whole face and make it big on the page! Use color! Fill the page!Exaggeration is good; gargoyles OK; remember to skip the demon/vampire icons,

please.


"Your Own Cartoon Strip"Design and Draw Your Own Cartoon

Strip

---- OR ----if you don't have a cartoon strip idea,

you can:Draw A Day In Your Life in Cartoon

Format

This assignment focuses on drawing from direct observation.

(looking at the real thing)

"Size Distortions"Choose two ordinary objects at home

which have a relationship to one another but are not the same size at

all. (Like: the front door and a key -- or -- the refrigerator and an apple.

Draw the two different sized objects as if they are the same size, and draw them so they have a new relationship at the

new size. (So: the key is as big as the door in the

new relationship, and can only lean upon it!)

(So: the apple could be so big that it occupied the entire inside of the

refrigerator!) Be inventive! think up your own two related

objects, and observe and draw their details carefully. Plan an interesting

composition on the page.

This assignment focuses on

drawing from direct observation. (looking at

the real thing)



"Special Edition"

Design the arrangement of the front page; name the newspaper; write headlines; sketch the photos or ads; add captions to "photos" Use color. Fill the page. It doesn't have to look like a conventional newspaper (maybe think of a magazine layout instead)

and you don't need to write stories. Use lines or shading to indicate the areas of type. Be inventive! The lettering is part of the look in page design!

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Magazine Reflection"

Step 2 Find a full page magazine photo (not a magazine illustration)

that you like. B/W or color, but B/W is easier on this.

Cut the photo into 10 pieces that are about the same area. They don't

have to be the same shape. Shapes can be regular or not. Try to cut

through interesting areas of the photo (like the face!)

Step 4: Choose one side and shade in the missing areas in pencil, using

the opposite page of pieces as reference for what to draw. Try to recreate the values (lights and

darks) of the original photo.

Step 3 Select alternating pieces, and paste them in their correct positions on the right side of the

paper. Paste the remainders on the left,

also in their correct positions.

Step 1 Use facing pages in

your sketchbook.

Side by side if your book opens that way, or up-down if your book opens

that way.

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Bouncing Off The Walls"

Choose an object (sphere, box, pyramid, apple, teddy bear,

balloon, etc.) Picture the object bouncing off walls. They could

be bounding in outer space rooms or you can imagine the

effects of gravity on your object. (As an object bounces up it

looses speed [shapes spread apart] and as it comes back

down it speeds up again [shapes close & overlapping])

Remember the goal is to create an interesting full page design, so think ahead on where you want the paths to

go. Paths can cross each other and overlap.Include 3 stationary objects/shapes on your page that your moving objects can bounce off of. (a chair in the middle of a room, for instance.) Position them to help

construct bouncepaths. Choose a color scheme (suggestion: limit to 4 colors

and their closest relations on the color wheel.)Tips: The more complex (lots of paths), the more

interesting. To get realistic "bounces," objects bound away at the same angle at which they hit the wall.

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Top Topic"

Next, combine all these parts into a full page composition. You might overlap sections to break up the negative space, or you can decorate or design a background to unify the

parts.Get as many parts in as you can. Very sizes, use close-ups, zoom in, zoom out, change

the angle, include words, phrases, names. Make them part of your design.Tip:, When you choose your color plan, you may want to pick one or two colors that can

be included in most sections of your composition to help unify the parts.

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -Page O’ People

The peach and brown pencils that come in our pencil sets really aren't very much like real people colors. You can achieve much

more beautiful colors of all skin types if you layer colors. A basic recipe for skin is at left.Start by inventing a silhouette (outline) form that

conveys the 'shape' or 'essence' of a human person... The shape should occupy a space that you can easily layer colors in, say about 2 x 3". Repeat this shape 7-10 times, filling you page

with an interesting arrangement.Color each shape, experimenting with different densities of the nearby "skin tone recipes". Vary

the amounts of colors to create a page full of people who represent a wide range of skin tones

from light to dark.Pattern the background, or perhaps create

interlocking borders: something to give the page a unified appearance.

Tips: **Make smooth layers (essential for good results) **You can go back and add to layers, but you can't take layers off- so start off slowly ** Too much yellow will make the skin too orange **Too

much yellow and blue will turn the skin green **Too much blue will make the skin gray

Step 1: same as above (very light) Steps 2-4: gradually and smoothly

build up more layers, achieving more pigment (color)

Step 5: same as above (very light)

Skin Colors: (easiest if you follow the order below)

For light skin:Very, very faint layer of yellow

Light layer of orange Light layer of light brown

Light layer of red Very, very faint layer of blue (or green) (to

subdue the color brilliance) For dark skin:

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Something Silly"

Divide your page into 12 sections (regular or not). Draw 12 things you can make from raisins! No idea is too silly! Have fun! Be outrageous! Be Zany! Make me

laugh!

Remember to use color

and to fill the page!

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Machine Impossible"

What do you wish you had a machine

to do for you? Make your bed? Fix your lunch?

Fetch your soda?

Include:a power supply: Solar? Electric?

Hamster? Hydro? Air?Arrange:

the elements of your imaginary machine in an interesting composition, filling the page, and complete your drawing with a

pleasing application ofcolor

- - - - S k e t c h b o o k - - - A s s i g n m e n t - - - -"Theme Park Poster"

Use: the whole page, and let your lettering and color be a

part of your page design.Your poster design should

entice us all to buy a ticket to your theme park!

Reflection:

What color is your bedroom? Did you choose it?

How does the color make you feel when you are in there?

If you could paint your room any color that you wanted,

what would it be?

Reflection:

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