Below is a list of prompts that belong in your sketchbook. Please follow the directions for each specific prompt carefully. 

Title each prompt in the following way: skbk# 1(2,3,etc.) 

Date each prompt with the date that it is assigned.

CREATE A NEW PAGE IN YOUR PORTFOLIO, TITLE IT: SKETCHBOOK

PHOTOGRAPH OR SCAN YOU PAGE(S) AND POST TO YOUR E-PORTFOLIO AND SUBMIT IN ONCAMPUS AS YOUR NORMALLY WOULD

Make an drawing that has a blue triangle in it. Fill the page completely.

Find a photograph from a magazine. 

Trim it to the size of you sketchbook page

RIP it into two pieces

paste one piece into your sketchbook 

in the remaining half of the page create some kind of drawing that responds the partial photograph. DO NOT JUST COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL IMAGE

Repeat on the process on the opposite side of the page with the other half of the photograph.

Draw step by step instructions on how to make toast. Use only pictures, no words allowed. Fill the entire page. Consider the process as well as the experience! Be as detailed as possible!

Draw the exterior AND the interior of a mechanical object. This could be something as simple and common as a pen, or as complex as a car. In either case it should be something that you can actually see in front of you.  Focus on details. For the interior drawing, must imagine the interior - you can't open the object to reveal its workings. You could approach this in a very practical and realistic way, visualizing, to the best of your ability,  how the object functions. Or, you could approach it in a more fanciful and imaginative way. the choice is yours. The drawing should fill the majority of the page. 

Take your set of keys out of your pocket. Drop them on the table from a height of about 18". However they fall, draw the arrangement using  a black sharpie and the contour drawing technique (one one SLOW continuous line without picking up your marker from the paper tracing around all of the edges of the object or objects).  Do this three times on a single sketchbook page. All three drawings can and should overlap - its ok! Use the majority of the page.

If you do not have a set of keys follow these directions:

Take out your wallet or whatever you use for holding the various items like i.d.cards, money etc. and remove all the contents. If you don't have those empty the contents of you pockets.

Arrange them on a table in a random but interesting way. They should touch, overlap etc. 

Using a black sharpie and the contour drawing technique,  draw and all of contents with one continuous line. DO NOT pick up your drawing tool from the page. Use the majority of the page

Use only one single page for this prompt: Find a favorite coffee cup or mug. Set it on a surface in front of you at about eye level, and do a simple contour drawing that fills a large part of the page. Next try drawing a "birds eye" view, then draw a "worm's eye" view. After that try isolating and enlarging a portion of the cup/mug, for example the handle or part of the curve of the top rim. These different drawings will overlap forming an interesting new composition. Use all of the page.  Below are some examples of student work for this project. Some are more successful than others. Can you tell which?

Negative Space Contour Drawing.

Using the modified contour drawing technique (you can look, and take your pencil off the paper, but you should try to use long continuous lines, drawn slowly),  you will draw the negative spaces of an object, rather than drawing the object itself. This exercise is great for developing a sense of proportion and the relationships between spaces, and, if practiced,  will improve your drawing.

Pick a simple object with interesting negative space possibilities: Chairs, stools, simple tools or plants or trees work well. If your object is large it is advisable to focus on a section of the object.

Use a No. 2 pencil and your sketchbook, fill the majority of the page.

Optional: you can color the negative spaces black as in the examples above.

Make a new tool! This is an exercise in "forced connections". Forced connections are a kind of brainstorming, in which you try to put two things which don't really go together - together.  This technique is a good way of expanding and freeing up your creative process. Some of the combinations maybe silly or absurd and others might actually lead to a plausible design idea. Have fun with this, and you might be surprised at what you come up with! 

Combine 2 items (from the lists below- each must be from a different category) and create a drawing of your new tool! Repeat this a total of 4 times. Clearly label each tool with the names of the original tools you selected. Use only a single page for your final drawings (you may want to use additional pages for working out your ideas.)

The Lists: (These are some typical tools, you can add your own tools if you like)

Office Tools:

Push pin, stapler, scissors, masking tape, hole punch, pencil, glue, ruler, marker, compass, paperclip, staple remover. letter opener.

Kitchen Tools:

Spatula, ladle, whisk, knife, vegetable peeler, corkscrew, can opener, measuring cup,  dish scrubber, grater, funnel, rolling pin, colander.

Garage Tools:

Wrench, hammer, tape measure, trowel, handsaw, clamp, screw, screwdriver, level, pliers, jack, shovel, rake.

skbk#9

Draw an item or items of food that you are eating (fruit works well for this but you can use anything). Make several drawings in the stages of consumption from whole to fully eaten. Draw them with as much detail and accuracy as possible. Use the full page single of your sketchbook.

skbk#10 

To be done in your sketchbook on a single page

Compose a short ransom note that is humorous in its tone. Please make sure that what you write is appropriate for school.

Use found letters cut from magazines and newspapers, as well as any other found imagery and media you have access to (marker, colored pencil, etc), to create a visual note (see examples below). The majority of the letters in the message should be different 

The letters should be the main focus of the work, but the other elements can enhance the overall effect and meaning of the work.

Photograph, post, and submit your work as usual.