Line Observation Drawings

Bell Ringer:

No Bell Ringer

Materials Needed:

Wire Piece or String

Pen

White Paper

1. Bend your wire or string into an interesting shape

2. Replicate the wire shapes, without tracing, by drawing it on your paper IN PEN.

3. Draw someone across the table from you. You cannot look at your paper and you cannot lift your pen off your paper. Draw the outline of their face, their hair, and their features.

4. Draw someone across the table from you. You can look at your paper this time, but you cannot lift your pen off your paper.

5. Draw someone across the table from you. You can look at your paper, and lift you pen off your paper.

6. Draw someone across the table from you. You can use a pencil and eraser this time.

We took turns drawing each other and "posing" for the other person so this took the majority of the class period.

We talked about how our drawings changed or improved over time. Often when we aren't being forced to, we forget to look at the thing we're drawing and instead we focus on our drawing and what we think we know about the thing we're drawing. The best thing about art is we know when we're drawing something correctly when it LOOKS like the thing we're actually observing and drawing.

Don't forget to look and make adjustments instead of just thinking you know everything about the object you're drawing.