Due Tuesday, September 18 at the beginning of class
You are to make an interesting drawing of a bicycle with compressed
charcoal on 18x24 drawing paper (no sketch
paper). You are to make a composition
using only negative space (the areas through and between the bike parts) and
positive space (the bike parts themselves).
To do so, leave the positive space white and fill in the negative space
with an even jet velvety black. This
assignment is mainly about SHAPE. A good
composition in this case means to keep the drawing balanced. Don’t let all the negative space happen at
the top of the page. Be sure that you
have negative spaces at the bottom as well as the top! Make sure that the edges
of your shapes are neat and clean, and be as true to life and you possibly can. Also, make sure that in the resulting
silhouette you can still feel the visual mass of the bike! Plan to spend several hours. Life size! Since a bicycle is much bigger than your
paper, you cannot fit the whole thing in your composition! Since you are concentrating on making a whole
composition, you must use the page as a whole—to all four edges. Got it?
Get the feel of the
bike through this drawing. You will be
graded by the rubric below:
Assignment Grade Sheet for _______________________________
Positive/ Negative Space
Project
Did you follow directions? ___10%
Craftsmanship/Neatness/Finish: ___40%
Composition/Balance: ___30%
Ambition (A Drawing Less Ordinary): ___20%
_________
Final Grade: ___100%
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