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    This document provides instructions for a gesture drawing project. Students are asked to complete 10 pages of quick 2-5 minute gesture drawings capturing movement using different techniques like line, scribbled marks, and mass building. For their final drawing, students should extend the time to create a sustained gesture drawing that develops over time. The goal is to practice capturing the flow of form through expressive line work and begin manipulating lines to convey tone and mood. Critique questions are provided to help students self-assess their use of vocabulary, emotional response, sense of personality, successful and less successful elements.

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    This document provides instructions for a gesture drawing project. Students are asked to complete 10 pages of quick 2-5 minute gesture drawings capturing movement using different techniques like line, scribbled marks, and mass building. For their final drawing, students should extend the time to create a sustained gesture drawing that develops over time. The goal is to practice capturing the flow of form through expressive line work and begin manipulating lines to convey tone and mood. Critique questions are provided to help students self-assess their use of vocabulary, emotional response, sense of personality, successful and less successful elements.

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    Drawing 111: Project # 1

    Project
    Gesture: organic marks
    Objectives
    Studio Fundamental: To practice making quick and dynamic gesture
    drawings from direct observation that captures movement and
    atmosphere. Accuracy and attention to detail are not important here and
    will be focused on as the class progresses.

    Concept: to introduce students to natural lines of flow the eye follows


    that gives structure and energy to form, and to begin to see how to
    manipulate them to provide tone and mood.

    Project Overview Your challenge is to execute a series of gesture drawings that experiment
    with wide variety of different types of line and gestural mark making

    References for
    further study --Gesture Module on Canvas

    --Artists: Egon Schiele, Willem de Kooning, Edgar Degas, Jenny Saville,


    Alex Kanevsky, Shi Toa, Tom French, Ekundayo

    Vocabulary
    Techniques: Gesture, Sustained Gesture, Line, Scribbled, Mass

    concepts: Mark making, line energy, preparatory drawing,

    culture/science references: Sumi ink painting

    Materials Newsprint pad, Drawing tools

    Process Make gesture drawings from life. Use at least 10 pages of your newsprint
    pad, you may do two per page maximum but several of your pages
    should be one single drawing. Spend no more than 5 minutes on a
    drawing but shoot for 2-minute averages (I suggest starting quick 30sec
    and working up to longer sessions). Use each technique (line, scribbled,
    mass building, sustained) at least twice and experiment with how the
    drawing tools work with each technique. For your final drawing extend
    your work time into a sustained gesture drawing, you may want to slow
    down as time progresses and even use an eraser as a drawing tool over
    places where dark builds up. You may even want to abandon your
    original reference the drawing started with and improvise into it to make it
    into a whole new drawing!

    Tips:
    -Fit your drawing to cover the entire space you have allotted yourself.
    -Do not erase (unless used as a reductive line)
    -Use people around you as reference you don’t need to ask for them to
    model, just try to draw them as they move around or sit.
    -plants (especially trees) are great substitutes for people

    Critique
    Questions Here are sample questions to use to critique yourself.

    1. Can you describe this work using at least 3 vocabulary words from this
    unit?

    2. What is the initial "feeling" or emotional response you get when first
    viewing this work?

    3. Can you get a sense of the artist’s personality from the work?

    4. What element in this series was the most successful that should be
    carried to the next project?

    5. What element in this series is the least successful that needs more
    attention?

    Rubric
    10 pgs. of gesture drawing………………………………………..15pts

    One gesture taken further (sustained/worked into)……………..5pts

    Showed experimentation with a wide variety of line and mark…5pts

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