This document provides guidance and exercises for students taking a drawing course. It introduces different drawing techniques including line drawings, extended arm drawings using pencils in various ways, and two pencil drawings. Students are challenged to experiment with techniques and find their own style while drawing a variety of subjects like shoes, peppers, and skulls. The goal is to help students understand drawing materials and techniques and expand their view of what drawing can be.

1. Drawing

2. Every drawing has something to offer, and no
drawing, or way of drawing will provide a
permanent solution to what drawing is or should
be.
Drawing is the basis of all artwork. On this course,
you’ll be challenged to find your own artistic style
and apply it to your art. We are going to
experiment with a variety of techniques and
explore both traditional and non-traditional styles
of drawing. This will hopefully challenge your
perception of what drawing is and help you
understand how to use a variety of materials.

3. Line drawings

4. Pablo Picasso: ‘Fenhofer at Work on his unknown Masterpiece’

5. What to draw? …
You have been given the broad title ‘Environments’
for Unit 1. It is up to you how you interpret this.
Initially you are exploring different techniques so can
keep your idea fairly broad.
‘Nature is the Artists Dictionary’: Eugene Delacroix
Nature provides the most interesting objects to draw
when practicing drawing skills. If possible choose
objects that are flexible, to allow the drawing to be
freed from inhabiting the need to have it absolutely
correct … an old shoe, a pepper cut in two to reveal an
inner world of seeds are two good examples.

6. Drawing Project 1: The Extended Arm
Our familiarity with picking up and holding pens for
writing creates a habitual approach to handling them.
Why does a pencil that is used for drawing have to be
held like a pen that is used for writing?
This exercise is essentially about making marks with
varying amounts of control over your drawing. Your aim
is to hold your pencil in four different ways and make at
least five different drawings
Subject
One, two or three objects eg: an old boot, half a pepper,
an animal skull etc
Materials
Use a combination of B, 2B, 3B and 4B pencils or graphite sticks on
white cartridge paper. You will also need a long stick to attach your
pencil

7. Examples …

8. Outcome
Each of the drawings can
be used as a base upon to
continue drawing with
more control or can kept
as a final piece.

9. Drawing Project 2: Two Pencils
By using two pencils bound together, you
will produce a range of dense and
sometimes unpredictable marks that will
provide you with a surface to adjust,
restructure, and work, both with and
against. This drawing provides you with
the opportunity to start by making marks
inside the form, and there by breaking the
habit of using line to draw the outer
contour edge first.
Subject
A Single object or a self portrait
Materials
Use a combination of B, 2B, 3B and
4B pencils or graphite sticks on white cartridge paper.

10. Examples

11. Jeff Koons
‘Concept drawing for Statuary’ 1996

12. Mike Parr

13. Francesco Clemente

14. Cy Twombly
Untitled, 1982

15. Dale Berning

16. Alberto Giacometti

17. This week……
-Complete a mark-making drawing double page in your
sketchbook (include a blind drawing and a mark making
observational drawing)
-Complete a minimum of a double page of experimental line
drawings in your sketchbook
-Complete a page on an Artist who creates creative line drawings.
-Create a series of large line drawings (at least A3 size) One
should use the extended arm technique and one should use the
double pencil technique.
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Deadline: 23rd September