Instruction:
Draw 10 lines at various line weights (shades). Do the same thing with curved lines and shapes. Create a cross contour drawing of your hand, an object, and a crumpled up paper towel.
Purpose:
Practice pencil holding techniques and pressure application. Emphasis on shading and forced focus and practice on the shape of objects being cross contoured.
My Interpretation:
Cross contour is difficult but very helpful. See above.
Instruction:
Go out onto the oval, sit down, and draw.
Purpose:
Practice triangulation and other observational techniques to recreate the thing you are seeing. Focus on attention to details and how much you need to include to get the idea.
My Interpretation:
Initially drawing a tree, I got lost in the details of the branches and forgot to allow for a more realistic coverage of leaves and how the interlace and overlap branches. In the next drawing, of the trees in the distance, I focused on the bigger picture. I emphasized the shape of the trees in an ambiguous leaf-like texture, I felt it was effective. Finally, I sat down to draw the entrance of Hayes Hall, but was quickly cut short, only able to get the small stones in the lower right and the geometry of the archway.
Instruction:
Build a “personality sandwich”. Draw it in your moleskin.
Purpose:
Express yourself and practice some drawing skills. Emphasize what is important to you.
My Interpretation:
All description for the objects presented are in the photo. See above.
Instruction:
Encase the given shapes within a polygon.
Purpose:
Explore the fundamentality of everything and how complex objects can be broken down into simpler and simpler shapes.
My Interpretation:
All the shapes could devolve into a simple shape. It is easier and more effective to view drawing things as their fundamental shapes before their finer details.
Instruction:
Scribble on a page without looking at it. Emphasize shapes you recognize.
Purpose:
get into the head space of a design student, see things for what they can be and what they are. Look beyond the surface.
My Interpretation:
Within my scribble I noticed four distinct shapes. Firstly, on the left page there is a single comet descending downwards. In the top right is a ghost-like figure accelerating off the page, upwards nd to the right. In the middle of the right page I highlighted a mother cradling her child. Finally, on the lower right is a large-nosed, large-foreheaded face staring down and to the left.