Advanced Drawing and Painting  

The Sketchbook

Resources:

• Drawing Basic Forms
• Adding Shadows

Basic Forms page:

Complete a reference section in your sketchbook that illustrates the basic forms, some common uses, and parts of a shadow. Follow the basic step-by-step directions below to add the "Basic Forms " section to your sketchbook.

Mounting the Basic Form sketches into your sketchbook:

(Always save a space at the top or along the side for a page title.)

1. Open your sketchbook to the next blank page.
2. If necessary, paint or prepare the page for new information.
3. Carefully tear or creatively cut out your best examples of the four basic forms found in every-day items limiting the amount of negative space in each sketch (crop the drawings).
1. The four basic forms are the cube, cylinder, cone, and sphere.
4. Creatively arrange your examples on the page you intend to mount them allowing some room for a caption next to each one (see expectations below).
5. Glue in the samples of each basic form making sure the samples are well glued down so that they do not become dislodged from the repeated turning of pages.

Authoring the Basic Forms Page

1. Label the pages of your sketchbook at the top or along the side neatly with the title, “Basic Forms.”
2. Define “form” below or along page title.
3. Using colored pencils, draw the basic forms as you see them in your drawings and label them in the caption space below. Each drawing should be labeled according to the form most readily apparent.
4. Using a pencil of a different color, label the following lighting attributes:
1. Highlight
2. Shadow
3. Shadow core
4. Cast shadow
5. On each page in full, complete sentences, and in a visually creative way, answer the following questions correctly:

• What do you think this sketch technique will work best for?
• How long did it take you to do the drawings on this page?