week+2_MMay-tutor

__ Lecture: //Seeing Vision Perception// __ Optics – how we see and experience the visual What we see is a constant, but how we experience it is interchangeable dependent on our own interpretation

__ Week 1: Line __ Ex 1: Taking the line for a walk – Scribble. Draw a scribble on the page. Look for an image within the scribble. re-outline the new object/shape - carefully consider the line quality. You can add more lines.

Ex 2: Do some mark-making with pen/pencil - shading using line e.g. hatching, cross hatching, stippling. Then, draw a cube - Shade it as if light is shining in the top left corner, so pay attention to lightness and darkness of mark making. Use cross hatching, hatching, dots or scribble shading.

HOMEWORK Ex 3: Portrait – blow up a photograph of yourself to fit an A4 (21.9 x 29.7cm) sheet of paper (head and shoulders). Photocopy 3 copies (put 2 aside for following weeks). Redraw your portrait by tracing it using line only to emphasize shape and shading. __ Week 2: Optics, Perspective and Photography __ 1, 2 and 3 point perspective

Links: [] http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/line/index.htm

__ Week 2: Perspective __ Watch the following: 1 point: [] Turn volume off on next two. 2 point: [] 3 point: []

Ex 1 - Using one point perspective create a drawing of a room using line only. Add elements such as wall hangings, coach, rugs etc

Ex 2 - Perspective: Using acetate and permanent marker – find a window, stick the acetate to the window and trace exactly what you see – paying attention to the lines/perspective. When finished take of the window and compare your drawing to the actual scene you drew. When complete stick your acetate to a white sheet of paper.

Ex 3 – Perspective: Using your pencil as a tool as the horizontal axis, hold up to e.g the corner ceiling – draw the elements you see in the room – horizontal and vertical (relative angles). All these angles are relative to the horizon/horizontal plane. You may want to use two pencils - one as a vertical and one as a horizontal to create a 90 degree angle. Draw the angle you see, not what you imagine.

__ Week 2: Optics/Photography __ Islamic patterns used geometrics and line. You can create illusion using lines. Ex 1 - Optics: Pattern – Islamic – trace over sections of the grid to create a repetitive pattern

Ex 2 – Photography – Look at the 3 photos I show you, explain what you see, feel, experience. You may have different stories/readings based on your experiences/understanding. .