Project: Shattered Values
9 X 12"
1. Select a subject of which you can make a contour line drawing. Focus on a single object, such as a car, insect, person or fish.
2. "Shatter" the subject in some way by breaking it up with lines or shapes or patterns of some sort. These lines will overlap your first drawing. (There are numerous methods you could use…be creative. Think of various ways that lines break up objects: shattered glass, wavy lines of water, spiral lines as seen on a snail shell, geometrical divisions of shapes.) The objective is to create more shapes in your drawing, like a giant puzzle. (Look at examples of Cubism for inspiration.)
3. In your drawing, focus on each individual shape you have created, and apply the entire range of value (from black to light gray) in EACH shape.
4. Proceed from shape to shape, deciding which part should be the richest black and which should be the lightest gray. Sometimes you may want to alternate from one shape to the next. You may also want to vary the direction of your shading inside your object from that outside your object in order to emphasize it.
5. Fill the entire paper with values, including positive shapes of the object and negative background shapes.
GRADING CRITERIA
FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS: YOUR PAGE IS DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS AND EACH SECTION SHOWS A RANGE OF VALUE FROOM VERY DARK TO LIGHT. USED CREATIVITY TO SHATTER THE DRAWING IN ORDER TO CREATE NEW SHAPES OVER THE ORIGINAL. 25 PTS.
EFFORT: TOOK TIME TO DEVELOP THE IDEA AND COMPLETE PROJECT. PROJECT IS NOT RUSHED. 25 PTS.
CRAFTSMANSHIP: PROJECT IS NEAT, CLEAN, AND COMPLETE? SKILLFUL USE OF ART TOOLS & MEDIA? 25 PTS