ART 1 - Sketchbook Assignments For 2013 - 2014

Sketchbook Assignment List

Here are your sketchbook assignments for the WHOLE year!!

Sketchbook Assignment List

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Listed below are the sketchbook assignments for the year. Sketchbook assignments are due BEFORE THE TARDY BELL each Wednesday... Extra 10 points for turning your drawing in on Monday, 5 points for turning it in on Tuesday!! The sketchbook drawings are not optional, they are extremely important, so expect some studio time with me if you don’t get it in on time! Zeroes just don’t work for us because drawing is the foundation of all art processes!

If absent, be prepared to show the assignment the day you return.
Please make sure your sketchbook is graded when you get it back!!
 Your sketchbook counts as 20% of your 6 weeks grade, so it is VERY important!

Sketchbook Assignment Guidelines:
*Spend 30 - 45 minutes per week. NO POPPERS!!! (Piece of poorly produced effortless rubbish!!) If you throw it together, I can tell, so take the extra day and do it right! Try to stay a drawing ahead, so if something comes up, you’ll still have a drawing ready for class.
*Include background, don't float object; always shade, show values changes  - FILL THE PAGE!! This means the LINES must actually go OFF the page on ALL FOUR SIDES!!!
*Draw freehand, avoid rulers and NO tracing
*Sketch must be in your sketchbook, not on loose paper! Keep your sketchbook with you! If you use it up, I’ll make you another one. If you loose it, it’ll cost you $1.00 for a new one!
*You may redo the drawing, for a higher grade, until the next drawing is due – gives you a whole week. Just make SURE we take a ‘before’ picture of you and your drawing so I can see how much more amazing it becomes!!
*Grade yourself on the colorful grade sheet, it is  –20 points if you forget.

·      Weekly Assignments for 2013 - 2014

____ 1. A trite cliché is an image that is seen so often that it becomes boring.  Ex: smiley face, peace sign, fluffy clouds.... Draw as many as you can think of. The object is to get them out of your system here and make sure that they do not show up anywhere else in your future sketchbook assignments.

_____2. Design and color your pinwheel for the International Day of Peace. Use bright colors and designs!! We will fly our pinwheels on the football field on Friday Sep 20!!!

PRIZE FOR MOST CREATIVE PINWHEEL!!!

_____3. While you were dozing off in class a fly flew into your mouth. Draw what the fly sees.

_____4. You cracked an egg but didn't find a yoke inside. What did you find?

_____5. You are a bug in your refrigerator. Draw what you (the bug) see.

_____ 6. You turned on your faucet this morning but something other than water came out (close up).

_____7. Imagine that you open your closet door and you realize it is now a portal to another dimension. Draw what you see, include the door jam and door!!

_____8. Draw an open bag of snacks, for example, Doritos, Cheeto’s, Popcorn, Crackers, or Granola Mix. Draw what you see inside too!! What’s eating them besides YOU???

_____9. Did you ever wonder what happens in your kitchen at night? Draw a kitchen tool or appliance that has come to life and is misbehaving!!! (Keep it school appropriate!!)

_____10. Design a unique bookmark that features your favorite kind of book to read. Color it and cut it out!! PRIZE FOR THE MOST CREATIVE BOOKMARK!

_____11. You are walking with a friend when suddenly they start to float away. Draw it!!

_____12. Create an unusual or twisted valentine drawing. Make it for a specific Valentine’s Day “issue”!!!

_____13. You have invented a new cereal with your own shapes  of marshmallow pieces and flavors!! It has a crazy new theme that kids will love!! Name your cereal, design the box theme, and show the marshmallow pieces on the front of the box – in a bowl, flying a rocket, driving a race car, swinging on a swing, whatever you want!! Invent your own shapes and flavors!!

_____14. When Alice went down the rabbit hole, she saw singing flowers – draw a flower    

 ‘band’ and their instruments!!

_____15. Draw a large jar and fill it with something.

_____16. Create a 3D crown. Use any media. Cut it out!!! Be prepared to WEAR IT!!!

PRIZE FOR MOST CREATIVE CROWN!

 
_____17. What would you see if you grew wings and flew over our town? Make sure we know it’s Andrews!!! Use Google maps!!

_____18. Design a city made of your favorite foods.

_____19. Design a kid's toy that is made for the bathtub, but probably shouldn’t ever be used because it is dangerous, gets them dirtier, makes a huge mess, etc!!

_____20. You just got a new pet, but no one has EVER seen this animal before!! Draw yourself walking your new pet on a leash!!

_____21.Design, color and wear your own ‘themed’ sunglasses. Make them and cut them out!

PRIZE FOR MOST CREATIVE SUNGLASSES!!!

_____22. Where do you go when you die? What are you going to be doing there? Who will you see there? Draw this place.

_____23. You are innocently drinking from a straw when the suction reverses. Draw what happens.

_____24. Through a crack in the wall I saw.... (Draw what you see, and some of the crack and wall, but focus on what you see through the crack!)

_____25. Summer is almost here! When it’s 100degrees outside, draw how you feel, include plants, clothes, sidewalk, etc – make us FEEL the heat!!!

_____26. Humans are living on Mars now!  Design a stamp for the first letter mailed from Mars to Earth. Draw it full page with lots of detail!!

PRIZE FOR MOST CREATIVE STAMP!!

_____27. Upon walking, you discover that you have become a bug. What do you look

 like, and how do we know it’s you??

_____28. There are 2 pills on the table in a room, one will make you shrink, the other makes you grow huge! Show what happens when you take one of them.