IB Figure Drawing

(Recommended working time: Two Weeks)

In this assignment students will:

Plan and create a drawing dominated by the human figure
Respond to and analyze critically and contextually the function, meaning, and artistic qualities of past, present, and emerging art, using art vocabulary.
Develop and maintain a close relationship between investigation and a purposeful, creative process in studio work.

Compare and contrast a culture other than western culture and their use of the human figure in their art with that of human figure in western culture.
- Is it primarily religious?
- Is it political?
- What ideas or ideals might be expressed through differing depictions of the human figure?
Several examples of 1, 5, and 10 minute figure drawings that reflect practice and growth.
- Record the date of your drawings to document your progress.
- Examples of gesture drawing.
- Examples of negative space drawing.
Remember to cite your sources!
Photograph your IWB research pages and upload them in .PDF format as one file to your Google Drive "Turn-in" folder and rename the file to: <yourname>_FigureDrawing_IWBResearch.PDF. (Note- You do not need to include the file type".PDF" in the file name; Google will do that for you.)

Consider your "Theme" for this year. How might this work of art further or express this theme? Is the sample in the top right about contemporary life, masculinity, foot massage? How might it be considered for each one of these topics and what might the artist have done to focus on one of the three in this drawing?
Print out and complete a "Project Proposal" worksheet, then upload it in .PDF format to your Google Drive "Turn-in" folder and rename the file to: <yourname>_FigureDrawing_ProjectProposal.PDF. (Note- You do not need to include the file type".PDF" in the file name; Google will do that for you.)
Follow the directions here to complete the project, but do not submit it in that way. Instead, do this:
- When you finish your project, take a good photograph of your project and crop it as necessary. Upload your photograph of your finished project to your Google Drive "Turn-in" Folder. Finally, rename the file to, <yourname>_FigureDrawing_Project.JPG. (Note- You do not need to include the file type".JPG" in the file name; Google will do that for you.)