Students were introduced to ink through the experimentation with micron pens. Students were given multiple exercises to work with pen, including bringing in their knowledge from the previous perspective assignments. The goal is that students are building off of all the skills, techniques and concepts that they are working with throughout the entire course. Now, instead of using pencil to apply values, students are learning different techniques to apply value using pen and ink textures. Students are also including these values and textures in their perspective drawings. Whichever perspective students chose in their previous sketch, they then had to draw the same space from a different perspective and apply value using ink.
For some students, the idea of perspective is a review and for others it is their first time learning this concept. I like to quickly review the basics of perspective and build up from that point. (Pun intended!) Students define "vanishing point" and "horizon line" and complete various worksheets to practice using these perspective ideas. Students first completed worksheets in both one and two point perspective, but focusing on basic shapes only and adding in a light source to apply different values to each side of the shape. Students then applied their perspective ideas to a sketchbook drawing of their choice. Students drew a real or imaginary space of their choice in either a one or two point perspective...little did they know that they would be completing the perspective they did not choose later on. Some more advanced students who had worked with perspective before went on to try three point perspective and optical illusion sketches.
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