12-13-2010

Previous Homework:
- Dears' body are too fat (shape problem)
- Dears' legs are too thin, all straight: leg shape & angle
- shadow and ice crack on ground is too trivia: too many broken short lines and shadow.

Class:
- Dear in a scene (1 out of 6 designs)
- oil paste

Homework:
- Finish coloring


Next Class:
- watercolor

12-06-2009

Last Homewok:
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马
颜色可以变化多一些.亮的褐色
马的脸太胖,嘴唇太薄
鹦鹉
要加背景

其它人的画优点
素描的
局部有细节,绒毛 纹理 等等
选择细节地面. 重点 非重点可以跳过
颜色/深浅.线条变化韵律

课堂
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五个圣诞节设计
Move the focus down to the bottom, make figures bigger (follow idea pictures)


Homework
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Finish the drawing, & coloring with markers

Bring the oil paste, small book and color book to class

11-29-2009

- Homework (last week)
- Jonathan used pencil, not color pencil as required (I didn't remind him, my bad)
- 1st set of pictures were too small, 2 per page (he did it himself ...)
- good at lines, could improve some important detail, like eyes
- example: nice bear, with detailed fur spots (not covering whole bear)
<- very detail; <- very smart on tempo
- Class (color painting)
- ini. step: pencil with outlines & designs
- 1st step: color with outlines
- 2nd step: color with basic tone (color)
- 3rd step: color (cover) important lines
- 4th step: color (cover) important spot
- note: color painted late will overwritten original color
- note: color small shape/spot, even for same/similar color <-
- note: some important detail may need emphasize a little bit more: claws/beek/etc.

- Homework (next week)
- use oil paste to draw 2 animals, lean oil paste as brush during drawing


- next class, need marker

11-22-2009

Homework:
pick 2 toys at home, 6 positions (around 5 minute for each position) and 1 color for each toy\

Next week: Painting (brush & ink provided)
both small & big books, wear a T-shirt(?) as cover in case of getting dirty

Sketch:
3 different lines (black, green and blue in example) in (time) order.

Line order:
One side lines first to define sizes & positions
complete the shape with 2nd type lines
more detail in 3rd type lines

Line requirement:
Pay attention to line width/darkness (vary depends on line purpose)
quick/assurance, no erase, redraw lines if need correction

Why using color pencil?
- line thin & dark, thin & light, wide & dark, wide & light
- ink pen -> 6-B pencil
<= color pencil, holding horizontally, changing angle & strength for different line

coloring sketch
- color the cross sections ONLY between light sections with shadow sections

11-15-2009

Topic: texture
Material: maker (light color mix)
Objects: 4 different sea creature with texture, star fish, seahorse, sea turtle, octopus

Color is not important itself.
Mixing different (light) color to show Nature texture.

Do not repeat to make pattern

11-08-2009

1. Review homework: halloween scene tune is too light, darken background to help focus
2. Class drawing: continue previous Pumpkin coloring
   total 7 steps
   key points:
   - ideal ball vs. natural Pumpkin
   - different regions of light value:
   - in dark side (right bottom corner) dark to light slowly (reflection)
   - in light side (left top corner) dark to light quickly
   - also from middle to top, dark to light slowly, same middle to bottom (reflection)
   - Pumpkin has more mix region because it's natual stuff (not perfect ball)
   Pumpkin detail
   - fan shapes (check example on sketch book)
   coloring
   - shadow: blue
   - dark: mix with blue, mix with green
3. Homework
   - finish pumpkin coloring
   - fruit
   - finish Halloween scene
   - marker for next class

11/01/2009 -- Halloween Idea

Ideas in an art work is very important. Some art work the ideas are common, and some are unique. The idea of an art work could be surface, or inside. Last time there is one art work for moon festival, with an empty chair on beach facing the ocean, and footprints around the chair. Where is the person? (He walked away). Why? (Maybe he feels lonely on this moon festival day, when a family should be united and celebrate. )

This week's work focus on idea. Finish an art work on Halloween. Requirements:
1. Different size of objects
2. Different lights. (moonlight, indoor light, flashlights)
3. Difference in space, far objects, near objects
4. Mystery atomasphere.

I found it hard myself to think of an idea that is special and unique. Lets work on it.

Jonathan's Work: