Objective
Each week throughout the semester, you will complete and turn in a sketchbook assignment. The purpose of the sketchbook is to explore different ways of viewing ordinary shapes and objects, learn how to self-motivate when you feel like you’ve run out of ideas, to loosen up when it comes plotting out ideas, and simply to get in the habit of putting pencil to paper.
Assignments
Your assignments will be listed below, and your sketchbooks will be handed in at the beginning of class each week.
Sketchbook 1: Create 10 Different Sketches of Images Representing each of these three motifs: Fire, Water, Death. (30 sketches) Then, create 10 different sketches which combine one of each of these motifs into an interesting and provocative composition with a ratio of approximately 2×3 (10 sketches). Due 8-28. 40 sketches total.
Sketchbook 2: Fill up 3 pages in your sketchbook with imagery reflective of yourself and your family, including things you know and things you look into. Look into your family history and ask around about how in the world you came to be here. Mix things up on the page; that is, you don’t have to organize everything perfectly or chronologically. Here’s an example – not the style exactly, but just loosely combing imagery.
Sketchbook 3: Create 30 different, well-defined monograms and/or ciphers with your (3) initials. Due 9-25-17
Sketchbook 4. Fill up 5 pages in your sketchbook with collage imagery seen around the city, including buildings, people, type, signage and anything else you see. These shouldn’t just be random doodles. They should be what you see traveling around the city and through your daily routine. Due 10-09-17