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Learning Objectives:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the connection between their eyes and their hand.
2. Develop their hand eye coordination.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of scale, form and texture.
Mini-Assignment:
1. Choose an object that is smooth, close your eyes and draw it in your sketchbook with a variety of different pencils.
2. Choose an object that is rough, close your eyes and draw it in your sketchbook with a variety of different pencils.
Materials:
Drawing Paper at least 18″ x 24″
A combination of pencils including 6H, 2H, 2B, 4B, 8B
Time:
30 minutes
Info:
The aim of the exercise is to create a direct route of communication between your two hands.
You will close your eyes, touch, feel,and explore your face with one hand and respond with pencil/medium marks made by the other. What is important here is that the hand that makes the mark with the pencil moves simultaneously is in sync with, and responds to, the hand that is exploring your face. The fingers that are touching the face are the metaphorical equivalent of a blind man’s eyes. Tactile information is being converted into visual information. You will begin to make and recognize interesting visual marks that are made in response to haptic (touch) sensation.
Process:
1. Attach your drawing paper to a board.
2. Register in your mind where everything is; use a rectangle about the size that you anticipate your head will be.
3. You are going to start by drawing your mouth, and so place your drawing hand and pencil on the paper in the place you think that if you were drawing a portrait, the mouth might be.
4. Close your eyes.
5. With your other hand, explore your mouth, and use a range of pencil marks that are made with your drawing hand to describe what your touching hand is feeling. It should be a simultaneous and synchronized response.
6. Try and describe in marks, the range of sensations that your touching hand is feeling – soft lips, surrounded by unshaved/smooth skin, fine hairs.
7. How do you draw the change in texture between where your hair meets your skin, your lips go from dry to wet.
8. Push and pull, twist and turn the pencil. Press firmly, or press gently, in order to produce a variety of thicker, thinner, darker, lighter marks.
9. Make dots, dashes, smudges – whatever marks you feel best describe what you are touching.
10. When you have explored your mouth, slowly move the pencil to your nose, eyes, brows, hair, and find a way to the an ear, across to the other ear and down to the chin.
11. Change pencils as you feel appropriate.
Resource:
Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing
by Mick Masen and Jack Southern