Classroom Sketchbook Concepts and Ideas
Two weeks worth of drawing lessons! Choose one or more of the following lessons to produce within your sketchbook. If you produce only one lesson then make sure it shows enough work to cover two weeks worth of work.
Concepts:
Find one or more animal photos from the available magazines and humanize them. Place them in clothes doing everyday chores or put them all in a party socializing.
Using only 6 squares, 6 triangles, 6 circles place them on a page in such a manner that they all inter-relate to each other. Strive to display balance, symmetery, and order. Add color in a manner that also bring continuity to your work.
Create a self-portrait of only symbols from the magazines in the classroom. Cut and paste your image in a profile of yourself or actually try to create a portrait as you choose.
Take one or more objects in the room and morph them together to create an interesting drawing.
Take any object in the classroom and reinterpret it into something else as a drawing. Example: A chair becomes an octopus, etc.
Using a light tablet, trace two objects coming together in an interesting manner.
Choose an interesting image from a magazine. On one side of your paper create a drawing of that image. On the other side of the paper try to draw the image up-side-down by turning the magazine up-side-down.
Create a distorted self portrait turning it into a caricature i.e. a large nose, forehead, etc.
Design a tennis shoe that is unlike any other.
Take an image from a magazine and turn the whole scene into geometric shapes.
Create a surrealistic image by rearranging your face. Your mouth goes where your nose is, etc.
Show off your shading skills by recreating an image of broken glass on the table.
Create a face using only food,
Write a love poem and create a picture out of the words that depict the poem. (Great Valentines day card!)
Draw half of your face realistically and the other half as an animal that you relate to.
Create a pet that is a strange looking machine on a leash.
Draw the sun dancing with the moon.
Draw a group of trees that appear to be humans dancing.
Draw Using magazines cut out a large face, paste it down on a piece of paper and then cut out animal photos and replace the eyes, the nose and other features as you desire.
Create a painting using only cut up magazine pages for color.