Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High Mr. Adelmund Basics of Drawing Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High Mr. Adelmund

ALLOW YOUR VISUAL MIND TO TAKE OVER AND SUPPRESS YOUR LOGICAL MIND! MODES OF THINKING ALLOW YOUR VISUAL MIND TO TAKE OVER AND SUPPRESS YOUR LOGICAL MIND!

MODES OF THINKING When you were a child, how did you draw? Symbols that represented something to you? Drawing was fun and something you did naturally. As we matured, those symbols that you used as a child and your perception of the world expanded. Your drawings became more complex, you tried to be more realistic in your drawing.

MODES OF THINKING Around sixth grade, you decided that symbols just aren't gonna cut it anymore. You'd try and draw what you actually see, but your conditioned, logical mind, kicks in and overrides your creative impulse and spits out yet another symbol, or even better, a modified symbol that does somewhat resemble the object you want to draw. Your creative mind sees your symbol drawing and says "This does NOT look like what I want! I can't draw, so I will never draw again!"

5 Main Elements of Drawing There are Five Main Elements that can be learned that will greatly impact your ability to draw! In order to "draw what you see" you will have to learn to draw lines, shapes, and lights and darks that combine to make a whole drawing. Your logical mind, that labels everything it sees, will not be a part of the drawing process.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING 1. The ability to recognize LINES and IDENTIFY EDGES. • Line is the most basic element of the drawing. • Line separates one area of the drawing plane from the other. A single line establish a piece of paper into "that area" and "this area”- light from dark, foreground from background, positive space from negative space. • Line does not truly exist in the real world. Because line (in the art world) is only two dimensional - height and width, it doesn't exist in our 3D world.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING The ability to recognize LINES and IDENTIFY EDGES.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING 2. The ability to recognize SHAPES and/or SPACES. • Shape is the white area on the paper enclosed by a line. • Shape is the information that is presented between two or more lines. • Shape is also defined by the other art elements on the page like colors, lines, shadows, etc. • Shape helps define the object that is depicted as much as the collection of lines that make up the object in the drawing.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING The ability to recognize SHAPES and/or SPACES.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING 3. The ability to calculate PROPORTIONS, PERSPECTIVE and ANGLES. • Checking out the facts, how one part relates in size to others and at which angle - the ability to “sight” If proportion is incorrect in a drawing it "doesn't look right". • Do objects recede back in space to one or more vanishing points? • Perspective is the illusion that further away things appear smaller, and closer objects appear larger. • Proportion and perspective both use each other to work. If one is incorrect, chances are the other will appear to be incorrect.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING The ability to calculate PROPORTIONS, PERSPECTIVE and ANGLES.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING 4. Judging shadows, highlights and tone. • Light plays a HUGE part in what we see and how we draw. • Is there a dominant light source? • Chiaroscuro (Italian-Light and Dark) helps objects jump off the paper and look 3-Dimensional.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING Judging shadows, highlights and tone.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING 5. The “Whole Picture” or the “Eureka” - the unconscious skill of "pulling it all together"” • Before you even start the drawing you will begin to mentally place your picture elements on the paper, taking into account the drawing surface and relate your picture to the shape of your drawing surface- not run off the paper. • The shape of your drawing plane will help determine the composition of your drawing. • Seeing the whole drawing means when you start, you know where to place the eyes so the face will be in the center. Also, knowing that the tie will run off the page is being aware of the whole drawing.

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING The “Whole Picture” or the “Eureka!”

Drawing activities that will bridge the visual/creative mode (left brain) & logical/symbol mode (right brain). • Drawing objects upside down. • Blind drawings. • Negative space drawing. • Ying and Yang idea drawing. • Contour drawings. • Detailed still-life drawings.