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SPACE & DEPTH

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Elements

principles

Space

Scale

Proportion

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SPACE

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Space Challenge #1: Create an image that shows

Positive & Negative Space

Advanced: Draw from life!

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Negative Space

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Forget what object it is. Look for the shapes!

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Moustache

Square-ish shape

Triangle

Sideways trapezoid-ish shape

(Putting a drawing upside down helps make the shapes easier to see because your left brain doesn’t automatically label this image as a “chair”, and your spatial right brain takes over!

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Space Challenge #2: Create your own logo or word design using positive and negative space

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Space Challenge #3: Create a tessellation

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M.C. Escher

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M. C. Escher

Dutch Graphic Artist

Woodcuts & Lithographs

Mathematical Inspiration

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http://www.mcescher.com/

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Sky and

Water I

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Woodcut

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1938

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Metamorphosis II

Woodcut Print

1939-1940

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Extra Challenge:

Create an optical illusion that plays with space

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Challenges

  • 100% negative space drawing (ONLY draw the negative space)
  • Positive & negative space drawing
  • Logo design using positive and negative space
  • Word design using positive and negative space
  • Tessellation

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DEPTH

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One Point Perspective

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Depth Challenge #1: Create something in One Point Perspective

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Challenge #2:

Two Point Perspective

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Depth Challenge #2: Create something in Two Point Perspective

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Depth Challenge #3: Create something in an

Ant’s View or Bird’s Eye View

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Gustave Caillebotte, 1876 (French Painter)

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Nina Weiss

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Akunyili, “’The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born’ Might Not Hold True For Much Longer,”

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Rikard Rodin, Photographer & Designer

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Antonio Segui

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Argentine, 1934

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Corinne Erni, 2017

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Alexandra

Yakovleva

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One-Point Perspective

  • Cubes
  • Landscape (Road, train track, buildings, river, inside a room)
  • Name
  • Hallway (Advanced: Direct observation!)

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Two-Point Perspective

  • Cubes
  • Buildings, Maze
  • Hallway (Advanced: Direct observation!)

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Three-Point Perspective (Ant’s Eye / Bird’s Eye)

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Advanced Perspective Challenges!

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Linear Perspective & Foreshortening:

How humans exist within a space

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Linear Perspective & Foreshortening

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https://www.pinterest.com/kostichart/foreshortened-figure/

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Perspective Drawing from Life

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Perspective Drawing from Life

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Linear Perspective in Photography

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Linear Perspective in Photography

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Portfolio / AP / Advanced Perspective Challenges

Journalistic Linear

Perspective - Drawing from Life

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Draw or shoot perspective anywhere in the school! Search for dynamic compositions & principles

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Practice Perspective and/or Foreshortening

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Landscape and/or humans

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Use references from life, online, or your own photos - use your sketchbook and overlap drawings

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Revise a Piece

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Incorporate, revise, or redo linear perspective & foreshortening in a piece that is complete or in progress

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Depth Challenge #4: Atmospheric Perspective

Cool

Light

Blurry

(Like a blizzard)

Warm

Dark

Textured

(Like a fuzzy

brown puppy)

Contrast

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Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1563

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The Oxbow

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Thomas Cole

1836

Northampton, MA

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Blu Smith

https://mymodernmet.com/abstract-art-blu-smith/

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Tara Jane Crandon

https://mymodernmet.com/tara-jane-crandon-nature-sketchbooks/

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Atmospheric/Aerial Perspective Challenges

Any order, as many as possible. When you finish one challenge, keep going! Do it again or try another.

  • Experiment with atmospheric perspective and do some color sketches (rough or unfinished drawings/paintings) to get more comfortable with it
  • Start a longer term landscape that shows atmospheric perspective; aim to spend multiple days on this piece. (Starting with a sketch is recommended)
  • Take a landscape you did before and add atmospheric perspective to strengthen it! (Remember to show both before and after pictures)

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IMPORTANT: If you think you might want to submit this landscape as a final piece for the art show, it MUST be original (copying a photo that you took is ok), OR transformed (using multiple references that you found, or changing a reference at least 5 different ways).

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Space (2D)

Depth (3D Space)

  • Negative space drawing
  • Design your own logo using negative space
  • Optical illusion

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  • Linear Perspective
    • 1-point perspective
    • 2-point perspective
    • 3-point perspective

(ant’s or bird’s eye view)

  • Atmospheric Perpsective

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Goals: Minimum 1 space drawing, 1 linear perspective drawing, and 1 atmospheric perspective

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ULTIMATE CHALLENGE:

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Do a combination of these challenges!

Example: A landscape with 1- or 2-point perspective