Some of my non conventional exercises.

Dictated drawing:

Gather your students in couples. One should be facing the model and the 
other should be back to the model. The final drawing will be the 
external contour. The one back to the model uses the pencil and makes 
the drawing. The one facing the model dictates what he/she is seeing. 
The drawing must be made according to what the student facing the model 
is seeing. it means that it will be upside down for the one that is 
doing de drawing. which means that the drawing is the "dictator" 
drawing. It is stricktly forbiden to make drawings in the air with the 
hands. Students should use abstract instructions (don't mention body parts).

Marriage toast drawing:

Also in couples: Side by side. Student on the left draws in student on 
the right's paper and vice versa. student on the right uses right arm 
and student on the left the left arm (like in champagne toasts). The 
students must look only to the model and to his/hers paper. he or she 
must responde the other's drawing, drawing on the other paper.

Mirror drawing:

Students fold an A2 in two, vertically. They must make coincide the left 
margin of the paper with an immaginary vertical axis on the model. The 
they must copy what they see left of the paper but doing the symetrical 
of what they see of the model (the left side) on the paper. Then they 
turn the paper and do the oposite - drawing the symetrical of the right 
side of the model on the other side of the folded paper.
it should come to be a mirror image of the model.

Correction drawings.

Couples again. One behind the other. The one in front starts (one minute 
drawing). Switch places with the one behind. This one corrects and 
develops the drawing (one minute). And so on. (this must be done with a 
very smooth grafite stick). stop when the first one is drawing. next 
pose trade places.

I'll be back tomorow if you want,
Cheers,

Eduardo Corte-Real







Mark Karl Hughes escreveu:
> The exercises you need to do arre exactly the same for beginners as 
> they are with people who consider themselves "advanced"
>  
> I play around with scale a lot with students because they wont all be 
> comfortable drawing at the same size. They may have lots of beliefs 
> about what than "can" and "can't" do so I believe in generating a lot 
> of work initially.
>  
> 1. Tear up A2 paper, fold in half and reduce in size gradually until 
> you have a variety of sizes from A3, A4, A5 all the way down to the 
> size of a stamp. Start with the largest piece  and draw several 
> minute/2minute poses with them working from largest piece down to 
> smallest piece. Repeat this several times and work in the other 
> direction from smallest piece to largest piece as well. Vary the 
> implement used to draw. Use big pieces of charcoal and also cocktail 
> sticks dipped in ink.
>  
> 2. Do quite a lot of Left hand drawings or rather encourage students 
> to utilise the hand they usually draw with and the one they don't. 
> Also get the students to use both hands together in order to create 
> imagery.
>  
> Keep it lively and stop them falling into their default setting, give 
> them a lot of tools and some of them might just stick.
>  
>  
> Regards
>  
> Mark Karl Hughes.
>
> --- On *Wed, 2/9/09, David Edgar /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
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>     From: David Edgar <[log in to unmask]>
>     Subject: Re: model drawing exercises
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Date: Wednesday, 2 September, 2009, 5:41 AM
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>     And try and grab a copy of Kimon Nicolaides The Natural Way to Draw,  
>
>     On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:17 PM, nanette kraaikamp <*MailScanner
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>         Dear all,
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>         Soon I will be teaching a class in model/portrait drawing and
>         painting. 
>         I was wondering if anyone knows some nice model drawing
>         exercises that are fun to work with for beginners as well as
>         more advanced pupils?
>
>
>         Kind regards,
>         Nanette Kraaikamp
>
>         www.nanettekraaikamp.nl <http://www.nanettekraaikamp.nl/>
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>
>     -- 
>     Best wishes
>
>     David Edgar
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