You should have completed sketches of your paper bag and your secret object in your sketchbook. Now it's time to think about how to show these in an artwork!
1. Develop at least 4 thumbnail sketches showing different compositions of how you plan to draw your bag and object together.
You should consider:
- What is the meaning of your object? Of the bag?
- How should it be related to the bag?
- How can you metaphorically show your object and bag?
- How can you place the bag and object in an interesting perspective in your composition?
- Will you need to alter the bag and/or object?
- How does light and shadow affect your composition and arrangement?
2. Become familiar with conte crayons. Use the small brown paper and two shades of brown with black and white to practice shading a section of your bag. Get a feel for the two different values, how they blend, make marks and mix. Develop a style.
3. Lay out your final composition on the large brown paper lightly in pencil.
Before using conte, ask yourself these questions:
- Is the composition strong (challenge, fill the page, depth, design)?
- Do I have good lighting and shadows?
- Have I thought about the background and staging (GT students are expected to push this further)?
- How will I translate my object into browns/blacks/whites?
- What style of mark making will I use?
1. Develop at least 4 thumbnail sketches showing different compositions of how you plan to draw your bag and object together.
You should consider:
- What is the meaning of your object? Of the bag?
- How should it be related to the bag?
- How can you metaphorically show your object and bag?
- How can you place the bag and object in an interesting perspective in your composition?
- Will you need to alter the bag and/or object?
- How does light and shadow affect your composition and arrangement?
2. Become familiar with conte crayons. Use the small brown paper and two shades of brown with black and white to practice shading a section of your bag. Get a feel for the two different values, how they blend, make marks and mix. Develop a style.
3. Lay out your final composition on the large brown paper lightly in pencil.
Before using conte, ask yourself these questions:
- Is the composition strong (challenge, fill the page, depth, design)?
- Do I have good lighting and shadows?
- Have I thought about the background and staging (GT students are expected to push this further)?
- How will I translate my object into browns/blacks/whites?
- What style of mark making will I use?
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