Week One: Lines and Shapes

It was great meeting all of you Friday! You all jumped in and got busy with a lot of cool drawing!

Drawing while holding your pencil on its side (overhand grip) was a big challenge, but all of you got the hang of it. Moving your whole arm and shoulder while drawing also became easier as you drew more. Keep practicing!

Left: Raquel's pencil warm-up

If you find yourself doodling on a piece of paper this week-- hopefully between class assignments :-) -- do some warm-up sketches of angled, curved, and vertical lines, just like last Friday. See what kind of patterns you make--maybe you'll create a cool abstract design! Keep practicing the overhand grip; it will get easier and will help make drawing easier in future lessons. Also practice moving your whole arm and shoulder when drawing. This will help you to draw larger, longer, smoother lines.

All of you also got an excellent start in sketching light lines (guidelines) then drawing darker outlines to finish. You got into comparing the size (proportions) of shapes you drew to the reference picture you were looking at. This Friday, we'll be drawing with lines, shapes, and proportions again and we'll get into overlapping.

Your lessons are shown below. Be sure to click on your drawing to view it larger. --Rob