Week One: Lines and Shapes

It's great to be back with the Salinas Sketchers! Really cool to have a few familiar faces from last year as well as new ones! We got right to work on creating a bunch of NICE drawings.

Holding your pencil on its side (overhand grip) while working was a challenge, but all of you got into it. Keep practicing, it will get easier. Scroll down to view my comments on your drawings (or click your name in the column to the right).


Pencil warm-ups by (above, left) Ruby and Edna

If you find yourself doodling on a piece of paper this week-- hopefully between class assignments :-) -- do some warm-up sketches of angled, curved, and vertical lines, just like last Friday. See what kind of patterns you make--maybe you'll create a cool abstract design! Keep practicing the overhand grip; it will get easier and will help make drawing easier in future lessons. Also practice moving your whole arm and shoulder when drawing. This will help you to draw larger, longer, smoother lines.

Check out Pedro's and Leydi's cool drawings in eXpReSsiOn sEsSiOn. Hope to see more eXpReSsin sEsSiOn drawings from all of you soon!

You're off and running with sketching light lines (guidelines) then drawing darker outlines to finish. We also got started on comparing the size (proportions) of shapes you drew to the reference picture you were looking at. On Tuesday we'll be exploring how to overlap, creating depth in your drawing.

Scroll down to see your lessons. Be sure to click on your drawing to view it larger. --Rob