HA1 Task 1 - Mark-making Portfolio

Anatomy 

Exercise Number 1 - Direct Observation Portraits in Pairs

1. Full Face

Paper: portrait

Media: Biro

Time: 4 minutes

Left-handed (or right, if left-handed)

Instruction:Top of head/hair must touch the top edge of the paper, the chin the bottom and the ears each side. Draw loosely and freely adding as much detail as possible.

2. Cheesey Smile

Paper: landscape

Media: biro

Time: 4 minutes

Usual drawing hand

Instruction:Smiling mouth to stretch from left to right-hand side of paper. The rest of the features to fill within the page.

3. Don't Stop

Paper: portrait

Media: coloured marker pen – any colour

Time: 5 minutes

Usual drawing hand

Instruction:Draw a full face portrait that fills the page, but you may not take the pen off the paper at any point.

4. Blind-folded

Paper: portrait

Media: coloured marker pen – any colour

Usual drawing hand

Instruction:

Stare at your subject intently and draw a full face portrait. Do not look at the paper until the time is up.

Exercise Number 2 - Secondary Observation (Selfie) Self-portraits

Six Selfie-portraits

Take a range of selfies, exploring the expressions below. Choose six, the strongest for each of the expressions.

Divide an A3 sheet into six panels and make a pencil drawing from each selfie, taking approximately 15 minutes. 

Start by loosely sketching in the composition within each panel and then start to work on the tonal range of the image, establishing the lightest to darkest areas. The order and orientation is up to you, but use an additional piece of paper to protect the drawing so that you don’t smudge your work.

Include your original source images when presenting the work on your blog.

Exercise Number 3 - Manga Facial Expressions

YouTube Tutorial

Use the YouTube tutorial here to draw the two Manga-styled heads representing joy and embarrassment on an A3 sheet.
Publish your work to your Unit 69 blog following the layout on the example blog.

Exercise Number 4 - Gridded and Scaled Parcour Drawing

Parcour App Character

Using the reference image from a Parcour App character, use the gridding technique to transfer the smaller A4 photographic image to the larger A2 gridded plain paper.
You are aiming to convert the photograph into a simpler, more graphical illustration. Take each square at a time (sub-dividing it further if necessary) and simply draw out the shapes and lines you see as carefully as possible with a pencil. Give your main attention to the face, figure and text initially. It is often easier if you turn the template and photograph upside down and work on it as if it is abstract image. You can even mask off a square at a time. Having drafted out the image, colour-up the drawing using coloured pencils. Publish your work to your Unit 69 blog following the layout on the example blog.

Exercise Number 5 - Template Mythical Creature Drawing

Animal Amalgam

Use the supplied template and visual aids you’ve found on the internet (secondary observation) to create a coloured freehand drawing of a mythical creature made up of the following elements:

Head of a peacock
Wings of a bat
Torso of a man
Crab claws
Legs of a cheetah
Feet of an eagle

Exercise Number 6 - Expressive Hands Drawing

Primary Observation

Carry out  a series of four observational drawings of your non-drawing hand that suggest the following:

Anger

Stop

OK

Peace

Exercise Number 7 - Figure Movement Sequence Drawing

Secondary Observation Tracing

Using the props provided carry out a photoshoot in the studio of you using a sword and shield to step, block and then lunge. The DSLR camera will be set on multi-shot mode and will capture the movements you make in a series of photographs.

Review your images and then select four that represent each stage of the sequence. These will be printed off and you will use them to create four, traced drawings.

Exercise Number 8 - Silhoutette Figure Drawing

Primary Observation - Negative Space

Using a series of dark felt pens, produce a series of 8 figure drawings observed from life that study the pose of the model, but only draw the negative space around the figure (NOT AN OUTLINE), leaving a silhouette. Work loosely, but carefully.
Use two pieces of A3 paper folded into 4 and work in a variety of locations around the college site. You can work in both landscape and portrait formats. You may find that you have to draw more than you need as your models may move.

Perspective

Exercise Number 1 - Isometric, One, Two and Three Point Perspective Introduction

Look at the introduction to perspective: artyfactory.com – Introduction to Perspective

And then carry out the exercises using the templates for:

Isometric

One-point

Two-point

Three-point

Exercise Number 2 - 2-point Perspective Background - Spacestation Video

Using 2 point perspective create a construction with the design atheistic of a space station 

Exercise Number 3 - Crating Exercises

Using the supplied templates use a crating technique to build a variety of 3D forms:

Pyramid

Sphere

Cylinder

Cone

Torus

Exercise Number 4 - Crating Application

Using the supplied images and physical pistol as a starting point employ a 2-point perspective crating technique to create your own design of weapon.
This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your design ability in addition to your understanding of basic perspective and crating fundamentals. Start in pencil and then decide whether you want to colour-up the design with markers or coloured pencils. Remember that this is designed as a quick, outline concept design.

Colour

Exercise Number 1 - Colour Introduction

1. Colour Wheel

Using primary coloured pencils and a cross-hatching technique, complete the colour wheel template. Then idea is to mix the secondary and tertiary colours by overlapping/blending the primary colours.

2. Colour Schemes

Using a full range of coloured markers, decide upon an analogous, complementary and triadic colour scheme and complete the supplied templates.

Analogous 

Complementary 

Triadic 

Ideas Generation

Exercise Number 1 - Alternative Uses for Clothes Pegs

Following the examples of alternative uses of everyday objects, sketch and annotate at least 20 uses for a clothes peg. These can be Use any medium you wish, but include colour. Focus on both the look of the peg and its function for your inspiration. Remember that this is an exercise about you visually communicating a broad range of strong, creative ideas quickly, fluidly and playfully, rather than creating fine artwork. 

Visual Communication

Exercise Number 1 - How To Guide

Create a guide that explains an activity using only images and symbols – NO WORDS. You will need to use the internet to research your chosen activity, both the process and visual aids. Use an A3 sheet to layout your sequence of images. Plan and sketch out your sequence in pencil and then outline it using a biro or fineliner (and coloured pencils or pens if you wish).

Choose from the one of the following activities:

Prepare and serve a pot of tea using loose leaf tea.
Create a paper frog using origami.
Fillet a mackerel.
Tie a bow tie.
Prepare a BLT sandwich.
Make a chicken out of a towel.

Option Chosen: Tie a bow tie.

Objects

Exercise Number 1 - Paper Tonal Studies

Using the supplied rolls of paper create still life environments and produce a series of four, close-up tonal observational studies of paper constructions using pencil in response to the following themes: Tied, Twisted, Folded, Curled.

Textures

Exercise Number 1 - Willow Charcoal, Soft and Oil Pastels

You are going to draw a series of 9 textures (closely observed abstracted sections of surfaces) from around the college site, three using soft pastels, three using oil pastels and three using willow charcoal. Fold 1 A3 sheet of cartridge paper into 9 to use as your canvas.