Weeks 1 & 2: Lines, Shapes, Proportions, Overlapping, Composition

Hello Community Day Sketchers! It was great drawing with all of you the past couple of weeks. We are off to an astounding start in drawing with lines and shapes. Everyone did a wonderful job of drawing large while maintaining accurate proportions and controlling your line work. Learning to draw while holding the pencil on its size was a challenge, but everyone pulled it together to create a lot of cool sketches! You also learned about creating a large-format composition.

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Clockwise, starting top left: Pencil warm-ups by Thalia, Samuel, Lexis, Crystal, Brian, Anthony

Attention all sketchers, show your best drawings! Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 7, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

Also, if you have drawings that you've done in your free time at school, give them to me and I'll post them in the eXpReSsiOn sEsSiOn. (All drawings must be approved by Mr. McDowell.) Here's a link to another school's eXpReSsiOn sEsSiOn: Click here

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Look forward to drawing with you all on May 6th! --Mr. Court :-)

Daniella

Wow!!! You've been a drawing machine for the past couple of weeks, Daniella! Outstanding start in drawing with lines and shapes. Your eye for accurate proportions (the sizes of shapes compared to other shapes) improved with each new sketch, starting with the crab. You maintained accurate proportions on your large-format drawings of the jaguar and tiger. Excellent job on your large-format abstract/surreal composition, especially how you overlapped animals and patterns in your drawing!




I really like the 'sketchiness' of your line work in these studies. Keep practicing comparing your drawing to the reference picture or object you're looking at; then quickly sketching corrections.



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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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Lorenzo

Hey, Lorenzo! You've put together lots of excellent, non-stop sketching for the past 2 weeks! I really like how you started out by drawing BIG on your paper while keeping accurate proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes)! Your confident line work became more controlled and accurate with each new drawing, especially the final sketch of the toucan. GREAT effort in drawing the accurate form of the jaguar, both large format, and the 8.5 x 11". Your large-format graphite pencil mash-up of all the characters shows lots of imagination! Cool facial expressions. :-)






Nice job on your quick memory sketch:


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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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Sydney

Right from the start you were drawing lines and shapes with a lot of control, Sydney!!! As you progressed with your sketches, the proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes) became more accurate--especially on the toucan!! Excellent work in overlapping the truck tires over the engine and the frog's front legs; this gives depth to your pictures. It was so cool to see you relax and draw expressive lines for your large-format composition. Keep practicing loosening up your lines when sketching guidelines for the shapes of things; then finishing with darker outlines.



You nailed the proportions of the frog, spot-on!!



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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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Crystal

Alright!! Crystal!! I REALLY like how you drew large, confident strokes with your pencil! Great job of sketching light guidelines before finishing with heavier outlines and gray tones. Nice work in showing the texture of the lizard's skin and the wood. Overall, the proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes) in your pictures are very well drawn, especially the monster truck and lizard. Great work in keeping accurate proportions of the jaguar in your large-scale drawing. And your 'Sponge Bob' composition is wonderfully drawn; way cool how you overlapped things to show depth in your picture!





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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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Alejandro

Glad you could join us during the second week of class, Alejandro!! You got off to a fantastic start in drawing with lines and shapes! You're doing a great job of sketching light guidelines for accurate proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes) then finishing with darker outlines. Outstanding effort in sketching accurate proportions of the toucan! The lighter and darker gray tones are nice touches. Great job in using the shapes of the animals to break up the page on the large-format composition.



Your correction on the belly of the puffer fish shows your eye for accuracy. Keep it going, man!



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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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Jairo

Simply superb line work, Jairo!!! You've got a lot of control with your pencil and a keen eye for accurate proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes). Once you got the hang of drawing with the pencil on its side your sketches became more and more accurate. Excellent job of including the details of the truck and overlapping the tires over the engine to show depth in your picture. The proportions of the puffer fish and the toucan are right on!!!



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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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Daniel

Glad you could join us last week, Daniel! You jumped right in and pulled together an extraordinary bunch of drawings!! You've got a distinctive, bold sketching style and great eye for accurate proportions (sizes of shapes compared to other shapes). You show a great deal of control in your clean line work, crisp patterns, and gray tones for shading. And your large-format drawing... Whoa!! You've got an excellent sense of composition (arranging things on the page) and design style. When drawing from observation, practice sketching light guidelines for the shapes of things; compare the accuracy of your sketch to the object you're looking at; then finishing with darker outlines.





Excellent use of guidelines!!!


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Student Drawing Show 2010 Deadline Extended! Because of testing, the deadline to submit your drawings is the week of May 10-14. Enter your work in our Online Student Show, opening May 18, 2010. Your drawings will be featured with students from other schools in the Drawing League Gallery. Choose 2 of your favorites, either from your lesson drawings or work you've created during your own time at school. One drawing is to be from observation (drawing things you're looking at) and the second drawing is to be from your imagination. For Details: Click here

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