More Drawing for Fun UNCA Reuters Spring 2012

1. More Drawing
for Fun
with
Bill LaRocque

2. Introductions & Objectives
• Yours:
– What you’d like to learn?
– What other artistic activities? Music, writing, acting,
cooking, etc ?
• Mine:
– Get each of you to a “sweet spot” where you actually
enjoy drawing – enough to keep doing it.
– If you already enjoy drawing, to get you past your
current “sticking point.”

3. Drawing Landscapes and Portraits
Drawing by
Jan Op de Beeck

4. Basics
• Why we don’t draw.
• How to improve.
• Photography?
• Sketching
• Drawing an Interesting Picture
• Painting
“Basics are important, but not always fun.
Scribbling can be fun, but is usually not art.”
Rembrandt LaRocque. 1669.

5. Drawing

6. My Approach
• Finding the right balance between:
– Small step drills and more challenging assignments,
– Drawing the same thing together and coaching you drawing your own
subjects.
• Learning from:
– Listening (to my blah, blah, blahs, and critiques)
– Watching, (me and others draw)
– Doing (your own drawing.) most beneficial
• These slides are posted online. I’ll email URL.
• Bring photos or objects you want to draw.
• Reviews and previews.

7. How to Improve?

8. Materials?
• In this course – are immaterial.
• Still, they are often a lot of fun – Catherine
Battle’s course on drawing materials is terrific.
• Pencil (graphite,) ink, charcoal are all fine. The
bigger and blunter the better.
• Paper, a sketch book or journal
• Erasers are for when you change your mind.

9. Sketch this!
• Making a loose, light drawing…
– 3 skills: form shapes, angles and measurements.

10. Take a 600 Second Break
• class restarts in 10 minutes…
“Intermission”
By
Edward Hopper

11. Draw (some of) this!
• Making a 2D (flat) drawing look 3D (with depth)
– 3 tricks: Shading, Perspective and Detail.

12. Landscapes*: 5-Step Method
• Idea! Find an interesting scene and objects.
• Play! Imagine, organize and play around an
composition foundation - assemble the parts
you like (forget the rest)
• Shapes! Sketch outlines.
• Fill in the tonal areas.
• Add details.
* Works for still-life as well.

13. Plan and Play

14. Outline selected objects

15. Tonal Areas

16. Add Detail
• For depth and to direct the eye

17. Preview of Class #2
• Review of Class #1
• Improving our drawing
• Drawing upside-down exercise
• Landscape – draw along
• Landscape – yours (remember to bring some
pictures.)