"On the Pulse of the Morning"

Maya Angelou wrote this poem many years ago for President Clinton's inaugural celebration.  Illustrators take on the challenge of finding images to represent a poem, short story, or magazine article.  Read this poem and watch Maya Angelou recite it.  Your creative task will be to do a drawing that could accompany this poem.   You may want to think of symbols to represent the poem, you may wan to be literal, or just try to capture the essence of the poem.  You could also try to capture a specific moment in the piece.

Link to Poem

 Maya Angelou reading Poem

FLASH INTRO!

Designing for the Web

Flash is used to create short animations and are used often to enhance a website.  This lesson will introduce you to Classic Tween, Motion Tween, and Motion Presets. It will also help you become familiar with the layout of the Flash program.

Intro to Flash Assignment

Classic Tween Tutorial

Surrealism Reflection

Designing for the Web

If you have a completed your Surreal work of art in Photoshop complete the

Journal Entry on Surrealism.

Creating an "almost" all white still-life

Advanced Drawing and Painting

Link to Eileen Eder's Paintings

Our next challenge will be to paint a still-life that is predominately made up of white objects.  You will be focusing on value changes and how value creates the form of an object.  View  "Painting an Almost White Still-Life" document. 

White|Black Reverse Value Drawing

Drawing and Painting

Now that you have worked with a dark value on a light background, lets try the reverse.  We will be focusing on how to show core shadows and cast shadows by leaving the paper free of charcoal.  This is an extremely difficult exercise because you will want to start with a contour drawing, BUT DONT!
If you do then you may be placing a light value where a dark one should be. It is tricky!  Check out this you-tube video showing the process of drawing a cat using only a white charcoal pencil. 

White on Black Drawing 

Portrait of Steve Jobs Video

 

Artist AWESOME drawing of Selfie

Since we are going to be working on a large mural of people I thought it would be fun to watch an artist creating a fantastic drawing from a photograph (digital). 

Drawing Hands!

We will be working on a mural that includes the difficult task of drawing people.  People are so unique; hair color, body shape and size, clothing styles and many other characteristics vary from person to person.  Hands are no exception.  The hands and the face are usually the two features of the figure that are exposed.  Today in class and for homework in your sketchbook review the hand tutorials linked here and draw your own hands in a variety of ways for HW due on Friday. 

Drawing Hands Tutorial

FLASH!!!

Designing for the Web

Flash is used to create short animations and is used often to enhance a website.  To get started in Flash go to FLASH VOCABULARY GAME. First review all the vocabulary words and concepts,  then test yourself to see how many you remember.  
You should print out your results at the end of the period.