Drawing Assignment using the Principles of Design

1. Drawing Assignment using the Principles of Design Choose a common subject as a source of motif for your drawing. This can be anything (a shoe, a piece of fruit, a shell, a chair, etc., etc., etc.) Draw this object multiple times across your picture plane changing the object each time you draw it. For example, one depiction of the object can be a straight on view, another could be a highly forshortened view. Consider turning the object over to depict its other side. Consider changing the scale of your object in one depiction. Consider drawing one section of the object close up. I want to do draw at least five different versions of the same object, altering something about it each time, all in one composition (that means on one sheet of paper). Consider how you place each view/depiction of your object on your composition. You may overlap some of the images. Think about your use of positive and negative space. While you are creating this composition I want you the think about all of the principles of design we discussed in class (Unity and variety, contrast, emphasis, balance(symmetrical or asymmetrical), movement, repetition and rhythm).

2. The Principles of Design (Composition) Balance Contrast Emphasis (Focal Points) Rhythm Unity and Variety Scale and Proportion Movement

3. Balance – Refers to the varying amount of visual weight on one side of a work compared to the other side of the work. Works can have: Symmetrical Balance Asymmetrical Balance Radial Balance - Works can also be asymmetrically unbalanced if the weight on either side does not feel the same.

4. Symmetry Symmetry Symmetry Symmetry

5. Symmetrical Balance Parthenon in Athens, Greece

6. Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight Bodhisattvas ca. 1200–1250
Tibet (Central regions)
Distemper on cloth 27 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.

7. Radial Symmetry Detail of the mandala Mandala of Jnanadakini late 14th century
Tibet (a Sakya monastery)
Distemper on cloth 33 1/4 x 28 7/8 in. This mandala is in the form of an extraordinary palace seen from above. It is presided over by a female Buddha, Jnanadakini, who is the feminine aspect of Jnanadaka, a fierce manifestation of the Buddha Vajrasattva. Jnanadakini has six arms and three heads and sits on a lion throne surrounded by the eight goddesses of her inner circle. Four female guardians are seated in the doorways of the palace's gates.

8. Basic Structure of the Mandala

9. Asymmetrical Balance ecnalaB lacirtemmysA

10. George Bellows Between Rounds, 1923
Lithograph
18 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches

11. Scott Hunt Donut 1999

12. Contrast Contrast

13. Wayne Thiebaud, Pie Slices

14. Raphael Soyer, The Mission, lithograph 1935.

15. Emphasis Focal Point

16. Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808

17. Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948, Tempera on gessoed panel, 32 1/4 x 47 3/4" The woman crawling through the tawny grass was the artist's neighbor in Maine, who, crippled by polio, "was limited physically but by no means spiritually."

18. R hythm and Movement

19. Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, Saint Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4"

20. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Oil on canvas, (6' 6 3/4" x 9' 11 1/8”)

21. Unity & Variety

22. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923, Oil on canvas, 55 1/8 x 79 1/8 inches

23. Paul Klee, Temple Gardens, 1920

24. How are these principles of design used in the following student drawings for this project?