Shattered Drawing
Assigned:
1: Select a subject and produce a contour line drawing. Choose a single object such as a car, insect, person’s face, fish, etc. Subject could be taken from an online photo.
Vocabulary: Contour Line Drawing- a contour is the line which defines a form or edge, an outline. Contour drawing is the place where most beginners start, following the visible edges of a shape. The contour describes the outermost edges of a form, as well as dramatic changes of plane within the form.
2: Figure out a way to break up/divide your image in a linear way before value is added. The drawing has to be broken up into an even amount of sections. 10 Lines = 10 Sections. Some examples are: shattered glass, waves of water, spiral of a seashell, or geometrical division of shapes such as squares or triangles. These new lines will overlap the drawing of your subject. This will make your initial line drawing more visually complicated. The effect is to create many more shapes, like a giant puzzle.
3: Experiment with filling the shapes in your image with a range of black to grey. Look at each shape and decide which area should start with the richest black and which should be the lightest gray.
4: Fill the entire paper with values including both the positive shapes and the negative background shapes.
5: Consider each space a new shape in which to apply value, switch value application with each space and line that you cross.
Vocabulary: Contour Line Drawing- a contour is the line which defines a form or edge, an outline. Contour drawing is the place where most beginners start, following the visible edges of a shape. The contour describes the outermost edges of a form, as well as dramatic changes of plane within the form.
2: Figure out a way to break up/divide your image in a linear way before value is added. The drawing has to be broken up into an even amount of sections. 10 Lines = 10 Sections. Some examples are: shattered glass, waves of water, spiral of a seashell, or geometrical division of shapes such as squares or triangles. These new lines will overlap the drawing of your subject. This will make your initial line drawing more visually complicated. The effect is to create many more shapes, like a giant puzzle.
3: Experiment with filling the shapes in your image with a range of black to grey. Look at each shape and decide which area should start with the richest black and which should be the lightest gray.
4: Fill the entire paper with values including both the positive shapes and the negative background shapes.
5: Consider each space a new shape in which to apply value, switch value application with each space and line that you cross.