8th Grade

 

Sketch 1: Name

TUTORIAL - Bubble Graffiti Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XleKlL2KHQk 

  • Watch the tutorial (Stop @ 8:40) and create your own graffiti, bubble letter name.

  • How will you fill up the background?

  • Work should be fully colored.


Sketch 2: Shapes & Form

TUTORIAL - How to Draw HANDS & FEET Using SIMPLE SHAPES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPmVH-jebms 

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

  • Draw LIGHT until you get it right!

  • Choose 2 of the 3 examples shown in the video to follow along and draw.

  • You have the choice of drawing your 2 sketches combined onto one page or draw them on 2 separate pages.

  • DO NOT ERASE YOUR SHAPE MARKS! I want to see how you broke it down.

  • Include shading in areas of shadow.

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Sketch 3: Product Design

Create Your Own Currency

  • Design the FRONT and the BACK of a dollar bill.

  • You choose a theme: Favorite movie, cartoon, sport, hobby...be creative!

  • Don't know where to start? Follow along with the tutorial to learn how to draw a dollar bill: https://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Dollar-Bill

  • Make your work stand out! - Try outlining pencil lines in black Sharpie or dark colored pencil.

  • For this sketch, you are not required to create a background behind the currency, but your money should be in full color.


Sketch 4: Imagination  

Chimera Design:

  • For this sketchbook assignment, you will combine 2 to 3 animals together to make your chimera creation. 

  • A chimera is essentially a single creature with features of two or more different animals/species.

  • FILL THE PAGE - No tiny creatures!

  • You do not have to include a background.

  • Do not copy the mythological chimera, create your own creature.

  • Include the name of your creature and what critters you combined to create your creature somewhere on your sketch. 

  • For example: Angler Fish + Toad = Anglertoad




Sketch 5: Perspective

TUTORIAL - One-Point City Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O9oJp-vhoM 

  • Follow along with the tutorial. Start adding your own details to the buildings at 13:17.

  • Include additional details such as texture in the trees, siding on buildings, road signs…

  • USE A RULER

  • Color is not required for this sketch, but is encouraged.




Sketch 6: Texture/Transformation

No. 2 Pencil Animal or Object:

Any object that is seen or used on a regular basis begins to go unnoticed.  What we stop seeing is the form, color, or the object's visual properties.  For years you have been using No. 2 pencils in school on a daily basis.  They are indeed an ordinary, everyday object.  What can you develop when you build a 2-D image using pencil shapes and colors?


You will take time to study a pencil and to transform it and learn to see it in a new way. You will maintain the original color of the pencil (yellow with black lettering and a pink eraser). Follow the steps below:

  • There is no tutorial for this sketch. It's just you and your brain!

  • Carefully look at your pencil and brainstorm about what category/subject that you might want to work in (topics might include people, cars, insects, sports, or musical instruments. 

  • Create a contour line drawing of the subject that you have chosen.

  • Fill the contour drawing with drawings of no. 2 pencils (using a no.2 pencil).  Stretch, squish, curve, and transform the pencil shapes to fit your space (You must include at least 30 pencils in your drawing). 

  • Add color to your drawing using colored pencils. 

  • Want to really impress me? Include different yellow/orange values in your #2 pencils.

  • FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

  • You do not have to include a background.



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.

  • IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT! Incorporate the 5 of the 7 elements of art into your drawing.

  • Refresher:

    • Texture - Texture is the way the surface quality feels, or looks like it feels, if touched. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. 

    • Value - Value deals with the lightness or darkness of a color. In order to make an object look real, you use value whether it be in color or shading with pencil.

    • Form - Forms are three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth. Some examples are spheres, cylinders, cubes, and pyramids. 

    • Color - Color is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, like red, green, blue..), value (how light or dark it is) and intensity (how bright or dull it is).

    • Shape -  A shape is a closed line. Shapes are flat, 2-Dimensional shapes expressing only height and width). Shapes can be geometric (mathematical), like squares and circles; or organic (nature), like free-form or natural shapes.

    • Space -  Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects (background) is called negative space. The object in the work (subject) is called positive space. Space can also refer to the feeling or illusion of depth (like a road narrowing into the distance of a drawing).

    • Line - One point moving around in space. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight, zig-zagged or curved; thick or thin.

  • FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

STUDENT EXAMPLES (DO NOT COPY)



https://www.facebook.com/100004759960940/videos/1120581412102442/ 


Sketch 8: Form/Shading Techniques

TUTORIAL - Shading Techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaINVnw89Q 

  • Watch and follow along with the tutorial to learn how to shade a sphere using the different techniques we learned in class. 

  • Find a circular shape around your house that you can trace to keep the spheres consistent. If you don’t have anything COME TO ME!

  • No tiny drawings - your spheres should be as big as the tutorial shows.


Sketch 9: Surrealism

SURREALISM is a style in art and literature in which ideas, images, and objects are combined in a strange way, like in a dream.

Through a Keyhole

DO NOT copy the scene from the tutorial, just the concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEZWlea-vQk

  • Draw a keyhole (using the provided tutorial).

  • Draw a scene from your favorite book, movie or tv show, as seen through the keyhole. 

  • Add color using colored pencils. An ink pen or black Sharpie could also be useful.

  • Remember to use the elements of art: value and texture.

  • Fill the area around the keyhole. What color/texture is the door?

  • FILL THE PAGE. No tiny keyholes


Sketch 10: Contrast/Lines/Emphasis 


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


TUTORIAL - Spot of Color Emphasis: 

Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53inPpMCh4w

Turtle:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-oEkzZFo8 

  • Watch the tutorial and either follow along or create your own. 

  • Fill your page with an image of your choice. TRACING IS NOT TOLERATED.

  • Include texture.

  • Use a ruler to draw either a rectangle, square or triangle. You will color ONLY within your shape.



Sketch 11: Pop Art

The theme for this sketchbook assignment was Pop Art. Pop Art is a movement that started in the 1950s that focused on the transition of simple, everyday objects as the subject fine art. Pop Art was celebrated as “art for everyone.” Andy Warhol is credited for starting the Pop Art Movement. His artwork is one that uses food/candy wrappers as its subject. 


TUTORIAL - Pop Art Candy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZbIyqIAk34 

  • Watch the video link above which further explains in detail how to complete this sketch.

  • For this assignment you will be sketching a close up of candy. 

  • Find and print a picture of the candy you would like to draw. Paper clip this image to your sketchbook when you are finished.

  • Fill the ENTIRE page

  • USE PENCIL, THEN SHARPIE!

  • Drawing should be fully colored. 




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).

  • FILL THE PAGE! No tiny drawings!

STUDENT EXAMPLES (DO NOT COPY)



Sketch 13: Architecture

TUTORIAL - How to Draw The White House: Step by Step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDMI1Sg0GQ 

  • Follow along with the tutorial to learn how to draw a peacock. 

  • Add a background with plants. Include texture!

  • Use shading to add shadows and highlights.

  • Fill the ENTIRE page.

  • Color is not required.




Sketch 14: Vehicle

TUTORIAL - How To Draw A Ferrari 458 (Front View): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMRSxf6d65E 

  • Follow along with the tutorial to learn how to draw a Ferrari 458.

  • Customize the car with your own color, designs and details!

  • FILL THE PAGE- Include a background. Are you being chased by the police? Are you driving down a California street with palm trees?

  • Your sketch should be fully colored.


Sketch 15: Text in Art 

Calligram:

  • A calligram is a poem, phrase, or word in which the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting is arranged in a way that creates an image. The image created by the words expresses visually what the word, or words, say.

  • Calligram Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovvx-IldZQ 

  • Your turn to come up with YOUR OWN:

  1. LIGHTLY draw a simple contour drawing of an object of your choice. FILL THE PAGE!

  2. Fill the object with a word or words that relate to the object. You may also use a poem or song lyrics in your object.

  3. Add color to some of the letters or the negative space in the background.

  4. ERASE the outline of your drawing.


Sketch 16: Drawing Practice

TUTORIAL - How To Draw A Lion Head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CI-SUXG2Fk 

  • Follow along with the tutorial to learn how to draw a lion head.

  • FILL THE PAGE! - Do something in the background! Brick wall? Patterns maybe?

  • Your sketch should be fully colored.


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