Portrait Box

portrait box

Over the next few classes, we will be creating a different kind of artwork. We will be creating a portrait box that combines sculpture and collage media to honor an important person in our lives. See the slideshow below for ideas on how to create your portrait box:



Below the slideshow is the evaluation that will be used to grade your portrait box. Please make sure that you have addressed all criteria as you work in class!

Portrait Box Evaluation

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Mr. Hanson's Art 1 class blog

Now that Mr. Hanson has started teaching Art 1, he has also begun a new blog that explains the expectations and due dates for the new assignment.

Click here to go to his blog page! There's also a link in the links section on the right.

Sketchbook Assignment: Identity Type

As we study expressive type in class, it's time to consider yourself as a design.
Create a drawing of your name that's designed using expressive type to illustrate a unique or interesting characteristic about you, (see example above and in slideshow below)

First, select an interesting characteristic like, "I'm a bookworm, I'm an identical twin, I traveled to China..."

Then, choose an interesting way to express this characteristic using typeface and expressive design. Create a few practice sketches first before you settle on a final design. Choose a pre-existing typeface, or create your very own!

Grading criteria:
1) The letters in your name must use at least 75% of the page, and touch two sides! Draw those letters large!
2) You must incorporate a symbol or image somehow into your design.
3) Your final text design must be clearly legible.
4) DO NOT include the "My name is _____ and I ______" in your entry like the examples. Make your design clear enough that we know what you're trying to say without you telling us!
5) Use whatever media you'd like: pencil, pen, marker, collage, etc.
6) Neatness and time investment count. Brainstorm ideas first, and then create a final design.

See the slideshow below for ideas!

Expressive Type

Expressive type is typically a combination of both type and image designed together to express a meaning about a certain word, phrase, or idea.

For our next unit, we will be taking on the role of graphic designers. A graphic designer is an artist who combines type, image, and design together to create a logo, layout, or identity for a client. In class, we will be choosing a word or phrase that holds meaning for us, and illustrating it with expressive type. We will then create a printing plate with our final designs, and print our type in a variety of different ways.

See the slideshow below for many ideas concerning expressive type!



Homework for next class (15 point grade!)

1) Think about three words/short phrases that you would like to work with in class. These words should be significant to you. They could be expressive words such as emotions, they could be words you hear used a lot in the news, they could be titles of poems, the name of a place you love, an expression of slang you hear in pop culture, (make sure it's appropriate for school), or even your own name/nickname.

2) Your word or phrase should be nine letters or less.
3) Once you've thought of three good ones, look up their definition in a dictionary.
4) Write out each word and its definition. Print them up and bring them to class on Wednesday.

Extra Credit! For this assignment, you may use a font from your computer. Check out the link for DaFont.com here for a list of hundreds of different kinds of expressive type. Print out your three words using a font of your choice, and make sure they're printed really large. (size 72 or higher!)

Sketchbook Assignment: Figure from a Magazine

Okay, we haven't had a sketchbook assignment in a while. But, because everyone is doing such great drawings of mannequins in class, I thought it would be good practice for you to apply your knowledge of proportion, foreshortening, and observational skills to a real person.

Find a magazine (Sports Illustrated, fashion magazines, comic book, etc.) that show the entire figure in action. Carefully cut out that figure (should be at least 3-4" tall) and neatly glue it into one page of your sketchbook. On the facing page, redraw the figure in pencil, but increase the scale of the figure so that it fills, and goes off the page!

Here's what I'm looking for when grading:
1) Observation. Did you look at the magazine image carefully when drawing, or did you make it up?
2) Proportion. Even though your drawing might not look exactly like this person, their body part should be proportional.
3) 45 minutes of observation at least. Include details of clothes, hands, and feet, and some of the environment the figure is in.
4) Show different line qualities, include shading!
5) Your final figure drawing should be big enough to touch at least 3 sides of your page!
6) NO TRACING!!!

*FOR A CHALLENGE (5 points extra!) Choose a FORESHORTENED pose (See Alberto's drawing above) to draw!
*For even more of a challenge, draw an additional figure interacting with the first

This sketchbook drawing is worth a 40 point homework grade.

Figure in Action

For our next unit in class we'll be learning how to draw the human figure. Using proportion and observation, we will find relationships between the many parts of the human form in order to draw them more accurately.

We will be drawing wooden mannequins, that have average proportional measurements of real figures. Over the next couple days, begin to think about a simple action that you could illustrate with 5 distinct poses of the mannequin. For our final project, we will combine the 5 sketches into one design that illustrates the locomotion of the body, (see example above!

See the slideshow below for action ideas!


Here's the final painting criteria and gradesheet. This is a 25 point class grade!
Figure in Motion Painting Criteria

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Mid-Term Study Guide

Below is the study guide to use to prepare for the Art 1 mid-term. Print it out and keep it in your sketchbook!

Mid-term Study Guide

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