Intro to Drawing Schedule
ART 101-A
Hackett
Fall 2014
* Special Note: For every reading – bring a question from the reading that you feel is important. Please make
sure to include the answer and the page number when you turn them in.
Flexible Schedule (subject to change with notification)
Topics/Classwork
Course Intro: Perception
o Worship Acts 28: 25-28
 Students sign-up for worship
 Intro Prof. Hackett
 Drawbreaker
 Draw your Breakfast
 Pre-Instruction Drawings/Mile marker drawings
 Sketchbooks – purpose & assignments/how to
label drawings
For Next Class
Gather: Materials
Read: Edwards Intro & Ch. 1
Prepare: 2 quiz question from reading
Write: Notes/Response in Sketchbook
Sketchbook Prompt: Exploration #1
Bring: a textural object
Week 2
9/3
Topic: Edges
o Student worship
 Discuss Edwards Intro & Ch. 1 (collect quiz
questions)
 Tactile Drawing (paper bag contour)
 Duplications #1, #2 in class
 Conglomerations
 Continuous Line Drawings
 Vases Faces
 Sketchbook share & log √
Read: Edwards p. 84-91 (edges)
Sketchbook Prompt:
Duplications: #3 & #4
Assignment: Critique Drawing –
Continuous Lines
Week 3
9/10
o Student worship
 Discussion Edwards p. 84-91
 Quiz Edwards Intro & Ch. 1
 Coffee Imagination
 Campus Sketch Crawl
 Sketchbook share & log √
 Upside Down Drawing (Due 10/1)
Topic: Spaces
 Student worship
 Discussion Edwards Ch. 3 & Ch. 7
 Sketchbook share & log √
 Foreshortening
 Negative Spaces (make finders p. 128, go out and
collect)
 Critique – 1st Assignment – Continuous Line
Drawing
Read: Edwards Ch. 3 (R & L brain)
Read: Edwards Ch. 7 (spaces)
Write: Notes/Response in Sketchbook
Sketchbook Prompt: continue
Campus Sketch Crawl
Draw: Critique Drawing #1 (due 9/17)
Week 1
8/27
Week 4
9/17
Read: Edwards Ch. 5 (symbol systems)
Sketchbook Prompt: Negative spaces
collecting
Week 5
9/24
Week 6
10/1
10/8
Topic: Relationships
o Student worship
 Discuss Edwards Ch. 5
 Plumb Lines 2-D
 Plumb Line transition to 3-D (screen)
 Sketchbook share & log √
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Student worship
Discussion of Edwards Ch. 8
Scavenger Hunt
Sketchbook share & log √
1, 2, 3 pt. Perspective
Hallway Drawing
No class
Read: Edwards Ch. 8 (Relationships)
Sketchbook Prompt:
Assignment: Critique Drawing – (due
10/15)
Draw: Upside Down Drawing (due
10/1)
Draw: The Whole Picture (Paul
Heaston)
Assignment: Critique Drawing –
hallway drawing
Sketchbook Prompt:
Intro to Drawing Schedule REVISED 10/22
Week 7
10/15
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Student worship
Critique – Hallway Drawing
Sketchbook share & log √
Sighting and Plumbing
Eye Level Ellipses
Jim Dine – Tool Drawings
Gather: Materials for value drawing
Assignment: Teach someone else to
draw in your sketchbook
Read: Edwards Ch. 10
Sketchbook: Practice Ellipses from
different eye levels – add value to @
least 2
Week 8
10/22
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Student worship
Sketchbook share & log √
Share teach someone else to draw
Discussion Edwards Ch. 8 & Ch. 10
Critique - The Whole Picture
Complete/Critique Jim Dine – Tool Drawings
Value – practice working with pencil
Sketchbook Prompt: value objects
Quiz :Edwards Ch. 8
Week 9
10/29
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Student worship
Sketchbook share & log √
Quiz Edwards Ch. 8
Value practice – white object
9 step value scale
Student worship
Sketchbook share & log √
Campus Sketch Crawl – value
Value Photo – begin light drawing in class
Sketchbook Prompt: textures in value
Bring: 3 Black + White Photo
Options with a full range of value
Complete: 9 step value scale
Week 11
11/12
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Student worship
Sketchbook share & log √
Discussion Edwards Ch. 11
Value Photo
Sketchbook Prompt: traveling white
object drawings
Read: Making Art Like A True Artist
Write: Notes/response in SB
Week 12
11/19
o Student worship
 Sketchbook share & log √
 Value Study – build block sculptures
Sketchbook Prompt:
Light drawing completed: Value Study
– Block Drawing
Week 13
12/3
o Student worship
 Sketchbook share & log √
 Value Study – Block Drawing
Sketchbook Prompt:
Write: 1 page paper on Student
Worship
Week 14
12/10
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Draw: Value Study – Block Drawing
Due Final Exam Class
Week 10
11/5
Week 15
12/17?
Final
ExamTBA
Student worship
Sketchbook share & log √
Value Study – Block Drawing
1 page paper on Student Worship Due
Student Worship
Critique: Value Study – Block Drawing
Read: Edwards Ch. 11
Sketchbook Prompt: textures in value
Write: An application in SB
Please make sure to fill out the
anonymous evaluation of Prof.
Hackett. Thanks!