6th Grade

Sketch 1: Name Design

TUTORIAL - Name Creatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9xB27A2frs 

• Watch the tutorial and create your own cursive name creature.

• What background will you add behind your creature (Earth, space, underwater)?

• Sketch should be fully colored.

• FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

Sketch 2: Color Value/Shading

TUTORIAL - Value Scale Object or Scene:

• No tutorial this time! Just your brain!

• Come up with a creative way to create a value scale! Think about objects that might have layers or can be stacked.

• Use a graphite pencil or a colored pencil to fill your image/scene

• FILL THE PAGE - No tiny drawings!

Sketch 3: Product Design

TUTORIAL - Skateboard Design:

• You will be drawing and designing the top AND the bottom of a skateboard.

• Your skateboards should be displayed just like the image below. If you don’t know how to draw the bottom of a skateboard, watch this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bFIwh6r-w

• CREATE YOUR OWN DESIGNS.

• Keep in mind shading techniques. Around the wheels should have some shadows.

• You do not have to include a background, BUT your skateboards MUST FILL THE PAGE!

Sketch 4: Imagination

Magic Paint

• Create a tube of paint that contains "magic" paint. 

• Draw a tube of paint with "paint" pouring out.

• Your paint should be a scene. No solid colors, this is magic paint.

• Label your paint tube with a word that describes your scene.

• Sketch should be fully colored.

• For this sketch, you are not required to include a background. BUT the "magic paint" should fill the page. No tiny drawings!

Sketch 5: Perspective

TUTORIAL - One Point Perspective Town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZD8BjTK8dE 

• Follow along with the tutorial to create a one-point perspective town.

• USE A RULER!!

• Make it yours! Add your own details to drawing. Ideas: Ice cream cart, cars, animals, road signs…

• Work should be fully colored, but doesn’t have to be the same colors as the image on the tutorial.

• FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

Sketch 6: Texture

TUTORIAL - How To Draw A Realistic Chipmunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQoNE2oj03I 

• Follow along with the tutorial to learn how to draw a realistic Chipmunk!

• Pay close attention to how the artist makes little stroke marks when coloring the chipmunk. This technique adds texture to the drawing which makes it look more realistic.

• FILL THE PAGE! - The chipmunk should be as big (if not bigger) as the tutorial.

• BACKGROUND - Once the chipmunk is complete create a background. Inside a rough tree? In the soft grass? On a leafy limb? Surfing? Riding a broom stick? Be creative!

• Sketches should be colored. If you only want the background to be like the tutorial where the background is partially blue (or whatever color you choose), that is fine.

 

Sketch 7: Christmas

• For this sketchbook assignment all classes will be doing a religious sketch for possible acceptance in the Christmas bulletin for church.

• You will be drawing YOUR OWN ORIGINAL religious sketch. You are welcome to look at the Christmas cards for inspiration or watch a YouTube tutorial.

• Color will not print, but color would give your work different tones of gray (which is cool too).

• FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

STUDENT EXAMPLES (DO NOT COPY)

Sketch 8: Landscape/Value

TUTORIAL - How To Draw Winter Season Drawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amv22oyJ7Ic 

• Follow along with the tutorial and learn how to draw a winter scene and create value in your drawings.

• Be creative! Add more things to the scene that are not shown in the video.

• Be creative with finding substitutes for the materials you don’t have:

• Instead of a protractor, find a bowl to trace for your circle. Make sure the circle fills the page. If you do not have something, ask me!

• Instead of a cotton swab, use your finger.

Sketch 9: Shading

TUTORIAL - Stippling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5fTEDkM04 

• Follow along with the tutorial and learn how to use the shading technique called “Stippling”.

• Stippling: (aka pointillism) is shading using small dots.

• PICK 1 of the 4 fruits in the tutorial to create.

• Use a ruler to draw a 6” x 6” box in your sketchbook. You will be drawing the fruit in this box. 

• Notice how the artist used even some yellow and black in most of the fruits? I want to see that in your work as well!

• FILL THE BOX - Your chosen fruit should take up the ENTIRE 6” x 6” box.

Sketch 10: Emphasis

EMPHASIS is used to attract a viewer's attention to the focal. point, or main subject, of an artwork.

TUTORIAL - Fruit Bowl Drawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuO7XMq5tts 

• Follow along with the tutorial.

• Make it yours! USE DIFFERENT PATTERNS FOR THE BACKGROUND!

• To create emphasis only the bowl of fruit should be colored.

• FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

Sketch 11: Pop Art

Pop Art is a style of art based on simple, bold images of everyday items, such as soup cans, painted in bright colors. Pop artists created pictures of consumer product labels and packaging, photos of celebrities, comic strips, and animals.

TUTORIAL - Pop Art Pets with Romero Britto!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHZhMrsopfo  

• Follow along with the tutorial and learn how to create pets inspired by Romero Britto!

• You have the choice to do either the dog or the cat. You do not need to do both.

• FIRST PENCIL, the OUTLINE in Sharpie

• Make it yours! Use DIFFERENT colors and patterns than the ones in the tutorial.

• This sketch should be fully colored with MARKER (not Sharpie). 

• FILL THE ENTIRE PAGE!

Sketch 12: Easter

• For this sketchbook assignment all classes will be doing a religious sketch for possible acceptance in the Easter bulletin for church.

• You will be drawing YOUR OWN ORIGINAL religious sketch.

• You are welcome to look at the Easter cards for inspiration or watch a tutorial on YouTube.

• Color will not print, but color would give your work different tones of gray (which is cool too).

STUDENT EXAMPLES (DO NOT COPY)

Sketch 13: Architecture

TUTORIAL - How To Draw the US Capitol Building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyzRsBD698 

• Follow along with the tutorial and learn how to draw the US Capitol Building.

• Make it yours! Create more of a scene in the white areas of the building. Ideas: Add bushes, grass, clouds, sunset sky or tourists taking pictures!

• Work should be fully colored - A gray marker or gray colored pencil can be used in the shadows of the building, but the scene you design around the structure should be in colored pencil or crayon.

• FILL THE ENTIRE PAGE

Sketch 14: Vehicle

TUTORIAL - How To Draw A Jeep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZNUSmMLCc 

• Follow along with the tutorial and learn how to draw a Jeep!

• Customize the car with your own designs and details!

• FILL THE PAGE! - Is the jeep at the beach? Is it mudding? Are there animals driving?

• Work should be fully colored!

Sketch 15: Lines

TUTORIAL - Op Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIUeOTLbo8 

• Follow along with the tutorial on how to create Op Art (Optical Art)

• You choose what colors of pencils to use.

• FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

Sketch 16: Foreshortening  

FORESHORTENING refers to the visual effect or optical illusion that an object or distance is shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer.

TUTORIAL - Falling Into Foreshortening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMuBiK4p9p8 

• Follow along with the tutorial to learn how to draw using foreshortening.

• PENCIL FIRST, then outline in Sharpie or black marker.

• Include details such as the creases in your hands and designs on your shoe bottoms.

• Work should be fully colored using colored pencils.

• FILL THE PAGE! Background is optional.