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﻿Hello, everyone, and welcome to year seven art with me, Mr. Di Salvo. I hope everyone's well today, and today we're going to be looking at approaches to drawing. So, in today's lesson, we are going to explore different approaches to drawing, and we are going to be drawing from still life as we did last week. Now, why do you think it is important to try drawing in different ways? So, you can see three examples there of different approaches or different ways of drawing. And the question is, why is it important to try drawing in different ways? Now, the reason it's really important to draw in different ways is because it allows us to look at very different ways of approaching an object and how we work, 'cause not everyone works in the same way, or wants to, or enjoys that. And so, what we try to do is make sure we try lots and lots of different ways of drawing, so that we have some great fun, of course, doing those drawings, but equally we'll find out what works best for us. So, you might find today that of the three different drawings that we do, that you enjoy, hopefully, all of them, or perhaps just two or even just one of them. But, the great thing is it's this idea of exploring and trying different ideas and techniques, okay? And that's what I'd like you to do today. So, we're going to be looking at three different methods of drawing, a negative space drawing, a continuous line drawing, and a scribbled line drawing. Can you work out which is which? Okay? And I'm hoping you can. I'm going to give you a few seconds to just look at those three examples and think which one is a negative space drawing. Hopefully you've got that one, and if you weren't sure, it's the bottom right drawing. A continuous line drawing, that's the top right one there, the apple. And the scribbled line drawing is the left hand side one of the spoon. Now, and just to give you some definitions there. Negative space is a drawing in which we draw the spaces around the object rather than the object. So, just to clarify, it's not the object that we draw. We might perhaps draw part of the object, but what we're looking at is the space in and around the object, so the negative space. So, we have positive space, which is the object, and we have the negative space, the space around it. A continuous line drawing, if I can say it properly, is a drawing in which one continuous, unbroken line is used to create the image. So, unbroken. So, the idea is that we don't keep taking our pen or pencil off the paper. And a scribbled line drawing is a drawing in which a scribbled line is used to create the image, okay? And they are our three drawings we're going to be doing today. For today's lesson, you are going to need a sharpened pencil, two or three pieces of plain paper, a sharpener, perhaps a rubber, something to draw, and I've just realised I forgot to put on there, I'm really sorry. Ideally, a pen would be good if you've got one. If you haven't, don't worry about it. Can I please ask that you go and get those objects and those materials, and once you're ready, hit play, and we can begin our drawings, so. Okay. Welcome back. Okay, so as in ever in our lessons, year seven, whenever you see that slide, it's time to pause the video and complete that step or that drawing today. You've seen it before last week and every week, and then just a little reminder there for you. And, we are going to be drawing a series of objects, and this is all about exploring the way in which we draw, okay? And, you know, you've heard it from me every week so far, and I'm going to keep saying it until it becomes part of our way of working. It's about trying to do the best that you possibly can, okay? So, if it takes you longer, if it means you have to do it more than once, that's absolutely fine, okay? And, if you need to pause the video, watch it again, you know, that's absolutely fine. And there's two, remember, quotes we used in the past: "Mistakes are proof that you're trying," and that, "If it didn't stick in your mind, it's time to rewind." So, there is no harm in pausing, trying it more than once, doing it a number of times if you need to, okay? So, please, please, please, I want you to just try your best, please. Okay, so let's begin. So, I'm just going to get up my video, and also going to start at the very beginning. Okay, and so we're going to look at our first drawing, which is going to be a negative space drawing. So, just a recap there, it's a drawing in which we draw the spaces around the object rather than the outline, okay? So, and hopefully the video is going to explain that to you as I'm doing my demonstration. So, this is a stool that I photographed today. And so, the negative space is the space in and around the stool. Not the stool itself, but the space around it. And I'm just going to hit pause there. It's the same photograph. All I've done is, with a green highlighter, I've just highlighted the negative space, okay? So, it does go up to the edge of the page, but I sort of just stopped there. But not the object, but everything that is green that you can see is the negative space. That's the spaces in between the stool and around the stool. Now, drawing the, sorry, during the drawing, we will actually draw part of this stool, but we're going to start off by looking at everything you see in there. So, as I begin my drawing, I'm just pointing out which shape I'm drawing first. As is ever, basic shapes. I can see a rectangular shape there, okay? And then I can see another, I'm terrible about mathematical shapes, but some sort of trapezium, I guess you call it? Rhombus, trapezium, one of those shapes, okay? And I'm just now lining those up. So, I know that there's another one here. So, if you can just see, these kind of line up here, this lines up here, and then, in this rectangle, again, four sided shape, the tops of them kind of line up, I would say. And this shape here, these angles line up. Or, sorry, these edges line up. So, you'll notice at first it looks really random in terms of it just looks like a series of shapes with no sort of sense, but just about sort of now-ish, you can just begin, and I'm going to pause it there. You can just begin to see the formation of the stool. We haven't drawn an outline, just remind you. We haven't drawn an outline, but we've got the basics of what you see through that stool. And I do gradually begin to add the outline, but the key thing is that it kind of evolves or it is created through the drawing of the negative space. So, now when I start to put in the space of the object, you'll start to really see and understand what is there. Now, depending what object you've got, you may wish to draw the same stool that you can see in front of you. You may wish to find your own object. Obviously, it needs to be an object where there is negative space. So, ideally, chairs are really good for this because you can see through the graph, or stools even, 'cause they've got open sides. Now, using a rubber, and that's absolutely fine. Just to double check some of my lines and angles, but, you know, and again, just going to pause there. You've perhaps notices that I sometimes use my pencil just to, sort of, line areas up. And again, it's really important just to, if you make mistakes, it's absolutely fine. You can keep seeing me there just lining that pencil up because I've got lots of straight lines in my work, okay? And again, you will notice now that what I'm going to do is, I'm not going to add any more details to the stool, I'm just going to use, hopefully you remember what this is called now, I'm hatching. And then, once I cross over it, it becomes crosshatching, just to show the negative space that we've actually been looking at. So, we haven't drawn any more of the stool, any details, but what we are essentially drawing is the space around it, and leaving the chair actually blank, which is, you know, that's the idea of it. So, we're actually leaving the chair blank, and we're highlighting the space, the negative space around that. And it's a great way of working, in terms of, ah, I'm just going to pause there. So, that's my first version. All I've done there is show that, if we added in, it's almost exactly the same, but if we added in some extra lines here and there, we would be able to see the form of the stool. So, it's the same drawing, essentially. Slightly different angle, but it's essentially this drawing here, but I've actually added in the lines or the bracing of the stool, I think is what you'd call it. So, it's hopefully kind of clear to you that if we added in some of these lines, that's what we'd see. Now, that's enough from me for the moment. I would like you, please, to either draw your own object, or by all means, rewind the video and draw mine. Draw the stool that I was working from. Happy for you to do that. It's entirely up to you, but the key thing is we're drawing the space, the negative space around and inside of the object. Once you've done that, please hit play and we will carry on. Okay. So, welcome back. The next drawing we are doing is a continuous line drawing. And it's a drawing in which one continuous, unbroken line is used to create the image. And, for my example, I have used a pen because it works really well with this. I'm sorry I didn't have that on the resource sheet. And the angle of the apple that you can see, remember, will always be different because, of course, the camera that we're using is overhead. And the angle that I'm looking at is more of a looking down on it sort of angle. So please, it's hard for me to draw that angle from where I was sitting. I was looking at it more as you would be looking down from something, not above it. Now, it's called a continuous line because we don't stop. I do stop I think once or twice, just to put my pen down because I was tired. Now, you'll notice that for the first part, the apple. I'm using what's called curved kind of contour lines. Because it's a sphere, so, it's a round 3D object, I'm not using straight lines. And again, and although this is sped up, it is actually a quick drawing to do, because you find naturally that you can't worry about every line being perfect. Now, that's where I've stopped. Not because I'm finished, but because my hand was aching at this point here, so I've just stopped. So, when I do carry on, I carried on from the same point, because, in theory, it's still one line. I haven't lifted up the pen and gone to another part of the paper, I've tried to keep it where I was. And I think once, again I'll be honest with you, I lifted my pen up but that was just force of habit. But, the great thing about this way of working is that you find yourself not worrying about every line being perfect, but by building up the lines, you form the shape of the object, which again is a sort of sphere because it's an apple, and equally by adding more of those lines, and close together, we can actually create tone with that. So, it's still an accurate drawing. It looks like what it is, an apple, and we've still managed to get light and dark areas to it. And it's a great way of working, because you can't be too perfect about every single line, and let's be honest, if you look at my example, not every line is perfect. It's a case of trying to capture the shape. This is a great way of working sometimes. I often use it at my school as something as a warm up activity, because it makes you just try and capture the form and not worrying about that sort of thing. It's this idea of perfection, it's a really great way to just kind of... And with any of the drawings that we do today, I would really encourage you to do more than one drawing. Do as many as you possibly can. You know, you could go through your entire fruit bowl and do a banana, as we drew last week, or vegetables, or different shapes and see how you can capture the form of them. But the idea being is that you don't keep stopping and starting and umm-ing and ah-ing about, "Is that line right? Where should that go?" It's a very natural kind of brave way of working because you have to be really free with it, and really just be comfortable knowing that it doesn't matter that if every single line isn't perfect, it's about, "Can I capture that?" So, as I said, although my video is sped up, it is still quite a fast way of working. And it's a great way of, as I said, of producing work or really reinforcing the idea of getting shape right, because again, this only works because the shape is accurate, and then the tones are accurate. If it looked like a rectangle, it wouldn't look like what it's meant to be. So, I'm just adding a sense of a shadow from it, and again, different angle from what you can see, but I think, hopefully you'll agree, that I've managed to kind of capture the sense of that. That's a pause point, because it's now time for you to have a go. So, either please with your own apple from your fruit bowl or from my example or another object, it can be whatever you want it to be, but please pen or pencil on the paper and try not to stop if you can. Have a go, please. And once you've done that, hit play and we will continue. Okay. So, welcome back. So, our third and final drawing today is a scribbled line drawing, and it is a drawing in which a scribbled line is used to draw an object. Now, I've chosen to draw a spoon, and it's a scribbled line and we've done scribbled lines in the past, if you can remember, but I think back in week one or week two. And I'm still going to get the shape of that, which looks like a balloon but I've still gone with, sorry to keep pausing it, an oval-like egg shape and a thin, long, very thin rectangle. So, although I'm using a scribbled line, I'm still looking at basic shapes. And again, it's called scribble, but please don't let yourself think that that means that you should be really messy and do it badly or quickly. This actually took me quite a while to do, just because I was having to consider, "Okay, how and where do I add the dark and light?" And again, because it's a reflective surface, 'cause this is metal, it shines quite dramatic light and the kind of light and dark that you see, or we can both see, is different from where I was sitting. But again, you'll notice that I'm building it up. I didn't go straight in with really, really dark tones, even though I was kind of confident that there was dark on one side. Again, for a way of working, I would always say, add light tone, make sure it's accurate, and then from that, you can begin to darken it, 'cause if it's too light, it's really, really easy for you to be able to darken that tone. If it's too dark and you've gone too dark, it's actually quite hard to then rub it out. Well you can, but it makes your life a bit more difficult. So, again, I'm happy with my shape. And again, this isn't a continuous line, so you can take yours off. I just wanted to add a sort of scribbled line around it, 'cause I quite like the idea of emphasising that it was a scribbled sort of work. So, these are a lot more looser and freer, where you'll notice that perhaps, in my actual drawing, I have kept it really kind of quite tight and sort of tightly knit together lines. Because it's metal, I then decided to use a rubber and produce some highlights. So, the idea of the lightest tones, that I thought, if I could use the edge of a rubber and I've just taken the very edge of my rubber. And in fact, here I found a tiny offcut which had a really straight edge, which allowed me to rub out very quite thin areas, as you can see there and work into it. So again, it's a great way of working. It's a really, really good way of working. And so, it allows us to just try out a different way. And again, I've done this as starter activities, but equally, there's some amazing artists who look at using this as for portraiture and ways of working with it, you know. It's equally skilled as any other type of drawing. But please, please, please, again, this one's a great one that you can do. Go through your cutlery drawer, you can do your entire cutlery, I'm sure if you wished to, just with scribbled drawings. It takes a bit longer than the continuous line drawing. The negative space one, again, takes quite a while, but these are great ways of working because it doesn't ask a lot of you. A pen, a pencil. I'm back. Now, they are our three drawings for today. Please, please, please, you're welcome to draw my objects, you can draw your own objects, whichever you find best. But to recap, we had our negative space drawing, where you're drawing the negative spaces. And one thing I didn't mention, actually, with a negative space drawing, and I'm going to quickly just go back on my video, is that when we draw an object, even if we weren't drawing the negative space, we were just trying to draw the stool as you normally would do, the reason this is great is because when we draw our stool, and let's say we were just drawing the outline of a series of rectangles, by looking at these spaces as well, it means our drawing is more accurate, because it's not just about getting all of those rectangles in the right place and saying, "Okay, well it's basic shapes, go. "There's one, two, three, four rectangles, five," so on and so forth, and getting all of those shapes. But by looking inside of it and what's not there, we make sure that these shapes are accurate as well. Our overall drawing will be more accurate. So, it's a great way that when you're drawing an object or a series of objects, you can look at the shape of those objects, but making sure that the gaps or so in between those objects are accurate. Now, just going to go back to my PowerPoint. Okay, so I really enjoy seeing your work being shared. And if you could please, again, ask your parent or carer to share your work and that's with @OakNational and with me, @AdrianoDiSalvo1, and equally with #LearnWithOak, it would be wonderful. What do I think I could improve my work? I think I'm going to ask myself that question this week. So, I'm just going to go back and think, what am I happy with? I'm really pleased with, of my three drawings, I really like the fact that you can see that it's a stool, because at first I wasn't sure that it was working. I'm pleased with that. I'm really pleased with how controlled my scribbled line is. And I'm pleased that I've got the shape of my continuous line drawing. And even better if, I think I would like to challenge myself, and I think, next time I try this activity, me personally, I'm going to try and do a negative space drawing, but try and do a series of objects. So, maybe I might get a whole group of objects together and see if I can draw four or five objects as a still life and try and get the gaps to be right, see if that works. That's just a challenge for me. I would love you to look at your own work, please, and think what went well, even better if, for yourselves. That's it for today's lesson. I hope you've enjoyed it, and it is now time to take the end of lesson quiz to see what's stuck from today's learning. So, I hope you've enjoyed it, and I look forward to seeing you next week. Goodbye.

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In today's lesson we are going to explore different approaches to drawing.

Y7 Art

Key Stage 3

Year 7

Approaches to drawing

Introduction to art: understanding the basics - linking work to self

UNIT

Vincent Van Gogh (Part 1): Mark making

Vincent Van Gogh (Part 2): My bedroom

Vincent Van Gogh (Part 3): Self portrait

Introduction to art: Drawing techniques

Drawing still life

Introduction to art: Understanding colour

Introduction to art: Approaches to painting (Part 1)

Introduction to art: Approaches to painting (Part 2)

Alternative Approaches to Painting: Using Household Items as Painting Implements and Paint (Part 1)

Alternative Approaches to Painting: Using Household Items as Painting Implements and Paint (Part 2)

Introduction to art: Collage techniques

Introduction to art: Basic illusion with photography

Introduction to art: Analyse an artist's work

Introduction to art: Annotate work

Art

Approaches to drawing

Introductory Quiz

Video

Final Quiz

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