Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Drawing Technique

Every year, art students begin by learning different drawing techniques. Drawing is important for a developing child for many reasons. Not only do many children like drawing purely for enjoyment, drawing can also help give children an increase in:
  • imagination 
  • freedom of expression and independence 
  • cognitive function, especially the right hemisphere of the brain
  • fine motor skills 
  • creativity and originality
First graders are learning how to draw and describe different types of line. They are also learning about creating background and foreground. For their first major project, students drew 10 different types of line with crayon and painted them with water color paint, for the background. Then, students used their knowledge of line variety to draw their choice of an animal or human face to glue in the foreground.

 

 


Second graders are learning how to draw forms and shade them to make them look more 3 Dimensional. They practiced drawing and shading cubes, cones, spheres, and cylinders. Then, they created their own drawing using at least two of these forms and shaded those with pencil or colored pencil.























Third graders are learning how to draw landscapes. They learned about how to incorporate horizon lines in their landscapes. They also learned that when objects are near to us, they appear much larger than when objects are far away (just like the moon looks small because it is far away, but it is actually so massive that you can stand on it when close up). In addition to having size differential and horizon lines in their landscape drawings, students also learned about overlapping objects to make it appear as though there is more space.

 





Fourth graders are learning different drawing exercises to help them draw what they see in real life. They learned about contour line drawing, and practiced drawing without looking at their paper, only looking at the object or person they were drawing. They practiced drawing objects upside down to challenge them to really look at the object they were drawing instead of making it up in their head. 

 
 
 





Fifth graders are learning different shading techniques. They learned how to shade with pencil, colored pencil and tempera paint, and will next create a project of their choice that incorporates these shading techniques.







Sixth graders are learning one-point perspective drawing techniques. They learned how to draw abstract shapes and landscapes in one point perspective. Next they will learn how to draw a room in one-point perspective, and then they will choose their favorite one point perspective technique to create their own choice project.
 



 

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