
#Contour line art how to
In order to learn how to draw students will learn how to focus on the lines and shapes that make up an object. Worksheet with Picasso’s drawing of a man:. Students are to complete the other half of the face/vase by replicating a mirror image line. Includes: balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, repetition, pattern, rhythm, unity, and variety. Principles of design: describe the ways that artists use the elements of art in a work of art. The visual components of color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value. Elements of art: The building blocks of a work of art. Can also be used to show basic details or changes within the plane of an object. The outline or silhouette of a given object or figure. Contour line: a line that defines a form or an edge. It is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length. Lines often define the edges of a form. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, straight or curved, thick or thin. Line: A line is an identifiable path created by a point moving in space. Blind contour sketches and sketches of various objects. Select and control appropriate media and processes, demonstrating practical, technical and expressive skills and intentions. Show exploration and experimentation with appropriate materials. Cambridge IGCSE – A04: Selection and control of materials, media and processes. Visual Art/ Creating, Grade 7, VA:Cr2.1.7: Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design. Visual Art/ Creating, Grade 6, VA:Cr2.1.6: Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design. Complete a larger than life contour drawing of their shoe. Complete contour line sketches of various objects. Complete two upside down drawing worksheets. Learn to focus on the lines and shapes that make up an object rather than the object as a whole. Practice paying attention to the outlines of objects when drawing them. How can you use contour lines to add detail to a drawing?. How can you learn to accurately redraw an object?. § Once drawing is complete, students will include text in the drawing about the things they carry physically and emotionally on a daily basis. § Contour line drawing of backpack, completed while teacher reads a chapter in the book “The Things We Carry.”
O The Things We Carry (backpack drawing): 8/27 – 9/7 (4 classes) - 2nd Major Contour Project § Larger scale contour drawings of student’s shoe. § Contour line drawings of vases (discuss ellipses) and simple still life arrangements. § Blind contour drawings of objects and people. O Contour line exercises and drawing (shoe): 8/16 – 8/24 (3 classes)- 1st Major Contour Project § Everyone draws the man, then they get to choose to draw the woman or horse. § Teaches students to focus on lines and shapes rather than the image. O Upside down drawing: 8/9 – A Day Tuesday, 8/10 – B Day (1 class period)
§ Students focus on shapes and lines to try to recreate a mirror image line to create a face/vase drawing. O Face/Vase worksheet: Monday, 8/6 – A Day Tuesday, 8/7 – B Day (1 class)