It's that time of year again...last year I did an armadillo hand puppet to show students how to use blue pencils to sketch with instead of doing a tracing paper transfer. Since last year's item was more of a hard surface with regards to form I wanted to do something a bit hairier to work without a lot of burnishing. It also helped students in dealing with the creative process...
This is the second major process drawing the students are doing because we have been focusing on observation drawing the first 9 weeks. Students are through the brainstorming stage and dealing again with thumbnails. They vast majority of problems tends to be a lack of pushing through thumbnails and using it as a tool to help come up with creative solutions.I call it drawing with intent vs. drawing to fulfill an obligation. So instead of drawing, say a rabbit, 20 different ways with variations on eyes, ears, nose, muzzle, head, etc...I will get 20 rabbits drawn exactly the same with a hat thrown on...
Once they get through the thumbnails we move on to 3 or 4 mini-roughs to get a good solid idea followed by a full-scale rough. Then the final product...
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Sounds like you school them well Brian. I'm sure many of your students may get impatient at times, but they should be thanking you in the long run.
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