USING THE SET SQUARES: TRIANGLES AND PARALLELS

Notan: Axial symmetry/positive & negative space

Nōtan (濃淡^?) is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark elements as they are placed next to the other in the composition of art and imagery.

Notan Japanese word that means the use of light and dark.

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Notan from ESTER ALONSO

It´s important to keep the composition balanced.
We can use a seesaw as a good example.

Click on the image below to learn more about how to get a balanced composition.

Carnival mask (examples)

COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS

Complementary colours are pairs of colours which, when combined, cancel each other out. This means that when combined, they produce a grey-scale colour like black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colours.
In the traditional model, a complementary colour pair is made up of a primary colour (magenta, cyan and yellow) and a secondary colour (green, violet or orange). For example, yellow is a primary colour, and painters can make violet by mixing of red and blue; so when yellow and violet paint are mixed, all three primary colours are present. Since paints work by absorbing light, having all three primaries together results in a black or grey color. 

Divide each rectangle into different parts using a ruler or set squares, draw these lines with the 0,2 fine liner, then fill each area using a pair of complementary colours:

PRIMARY.......................................................SECONDARY

CYAN..........................................ORANGE (yellow+magenta)

MAGENTA...........................................GREEN (yellow+cyan)

YELLOW...........................................PURPLE(magenta+cyan)

Try to use different textures, techniques and shades of the same colour. If you want to use felt tip pens as well as colour pencils, you´ll be able to get more vibrant colours.

TEXTURE

DEFINITION OF TEXTURE:

The quality of a surface, often corresponding to its tactile character. or how it feels to touch.
Texture may be created explicitly in art, but it can also be implied through the use of line, shading and colour variants.
If you want to download this worksheet click here.

Just in case you want to know the name of each of your fingers here you have an illustration and the reason why they are called this way.

DRAWING TECHNIQUES

It is always a good idea to use the Blocking in technique to produce a drawing. Blocking in means that you use basic shapes to get it easier to make a drawing. These basic shapes, such as triangles, circles, rectangles...are used for sketching and after doing it you can fill in the details and volume by shading.

We are going to draw a kitten, that´s a young cat, following the steps given on the video.
You can sketch other animals in a similar way. Why don´t we give it a try?
I will also give you a handout as a guide, and we will play with the new words related to technique, lines and the animal itself .
Here you have a study set about lines that I have made using Quizlet.
Don´t forget about choosing other study options (there are quite a few).
And what about a brief quiz using GeoGebra?
You will only need a blank sheet of paper and two pencils, the intermediate or HB for sketching, and the softer and darker one, B2, for shading.
Even though all of your drawings look different, somehow all of them are beatiful.
You manage to do it really well. Remember  that this is your first aproach to this technique. Next time you´ll find it easier,  I promise!

How to draw a Kitten on PhotoPeach HOMEWORK

I wonder if you could do it even better. Try to draw another animal following similar steps. I like this Yorkie but its up to you to choose a different animal between all that you can find in this playlist.
You´ve got a whole week to do it at your own pace.

I´ll collect all your works of art during the second week of November.
And this is the final result. Bravo!!!

Drawing animals on PhotoPeach

ANAMORPHOSIS

Do you know anything about anamorphosis?

An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in some "unconventional" way.
We can find many examples on our daily life, the most common use of the anamorphic design is by far in road markings.  
We have to see those marks from our vehicles in such a low point of view that they are going to be percieved distorted and shorter than they actually are.





Julian Beaver is a well known street artist. He has made pavement drawings all over the world for many years.
Anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an illusion of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular point of view.

We can see other examples of this technique on adverts like this.

This is what we want to get

We will need:

-An HB pencil (number 2)

-A sheet of paper (DIN A4 Basik)

-A ruler and set squares

-Fine liners (0.2 for the grid and 0.8 for the outline)

-Coloured pencils

And, of course, an illustration to copy or trace (7x10 cm) You can print it out