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Possible Breadth Assignments
 
Create contour, cross contour, gesture and more realized drawings of common objects.  Look at Jim Dine’s tool series.  Look at Vija Celmin’s early work.

Create a drawing of a toy. Explore media: graphite, colored pencil, crayon.  Look at Chris Cosnowski, local artist John Hartley, Cesar Santander and Andy Warhol.

Create gridded and distorted self-portraits. Look at Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors”.

Create a negative space drawing of a group of chairs.  Color in the negative space in an interesting way. (Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain)

Illustrate a well-known story.

Create a self-portrait, or several different ones, that expresses a specific mood/emotion–e.g., anger/rage, melancholy/loneliness, happiness/joy, etc. Manipulate light and color to enhance the psychological atmosphere. Also, consider the development of the environment/setting.

Create a foreshortened self-portrait with pencil modeling techniques.

Create a drawing of a reflective object with white prisma or chalk on black board.

Create a monochrome self-portrait with prismacolor.

Investigate the Principles of Design using various media: scratchboard technique, silver point, India ink, charcoal, graphite, pastel, and conte crayon.

Create an Architectural Myth with Photomontage: Collect photographs/photocopies of city skylines, landscapes, and seascapes. Also collect photos/copies of household and technical objects—e.g., eggbeater, toothbrush, toaster, electric fan, automobile grill, etc. Carefully implant the photo of the technical gadget within the photo of the environment to create a surreal cityscape or landscape. (You might want to look at the work of the artist Max Ernst who took printed images and recombined them to create hybrid forms).  Create a drawing based on the montage.

Create compositions that involve the use of inset imagery (image within image such as details/close up views).

Create a graphite drawing of a still-life arrangement that consists of reflective objects—your goal is to convey a convincing representation with a full range of values. To add interest to the composition, you might also want to render yourself being reflected in the objects.

Create tromp l’oeil drawings of objects.

Create a value drawing of a still life with an exaggerated lighting set up.

Draw from unusual perspectives.

Create a pattern drawing. Draw outlines of shapes to create a composition.  Then create at least 5 different patterns, and fill in the outlines with these patterns.

Create a value drawing of drapery. Change the rhythm, speed and pressure of your mark making.

Create a pencil or charcoal value drawing of part of an insect.

Create a drawing of cakes or candy.  Look at the work of Wayne Thiebaud.

Create drawings of structures or landscapes employing one-point, two-point or three-point perspective.

Subtractive Charcoal Self-Portrait—using a combination of vine and compressed charcoal, use the dark field method to create a self-portrait (lay a field of charcoal over the entire surface of the page and use an eraser to create a range of values).​

Explore liquid media: pen and ink, brush and wash and monotype.
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