Throughout the year the students in the 6th grade keep a sketchbook. In the first two trimesters these were once per week projects designed to help them build up their bank of ideas and regular practice. Here in the third trimester they were given a much more involved version of this menu that contained 10 items, and allowed leeway to make these into deeper projects as they were interested. Below you will find projects categorized by their individual description from the lists.
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“Face – find an image of an interesting looking face to print off the internet. It should be a real face and not a cartoon. Print it and attach it to one side of two side-by-side blank pages. Do a drawing of it on the other side.”
Cy
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Random words 2 – “storm cube” (students were allowed to respond to this phrase in any way they like)
Ty
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“Choose several words. They could be a sentence or just a series of random words. Fill an entire page of your sketchbook with bubble letter versions of those words. The letters should touch each other and be a variety of sizes. They can run in different directions, twist around the page, or be laid out however you like as long as the letters touch each other and take up a lot of space on the page. Then choose one of these two options: 1) fill the letters in with a solid fill (like black, pencil, or a color) and fill the leftover negative space with pattern (either one or multiple), OR 2) fill the background with a solid fill and the letters with pattern”
Hanako
Hutch
Nina
Joseph
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“You are hired by NASA to act as their art consultant. They inform you that they are about to undertake the most amazing mission somewhere completely unexpected. Before they inform the public they want to have all the public relations material complete. They have most of it done, but no one can seem to get the mission patch right. They want you to look at the patches for the Apollo moon missions, and then use them as an inspiration to design two options for them to choose from. They should be different shapes and include different elements. (YOU can choose where the mission is to! And if you want to include names of the astronauts, not required, but you can make those up as well.)”
Palma
Edward
Malachi
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“Draw 10 noses from observation of photographs from 10 different people. You should do your best to replicate the differences of each individual nose. You should be able to identify the person in the photograph (i.e. famous people or personal photographs, but not random images). Put the name of the person who the nose belongs to under each drawing. Remember the rules and techniques of observational drawing.”
Clyde
Elodie
Stella
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“You are going to start your own business. Choose what kind of business you’ll run (anything you want) and decide on a name. Design three versions of your logo that include your company name in some way and are different from one another. They should be in color. Start by drawing 3 boxes that are 3.5×2 inches each in pencil. Each logo should be approximately the size of one box.”
Theo
Sarah
Rehan
Arlo
Casey
Carmen
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“Choose someone who has had an impact on you. It could be a person you know personally or not. Create a composition of items that represent or are important to that person. Do your best to put time and detail into each object as well as create an interesting composition. Make your composition fill every bit of the page by having the objects overlap and be different sizes. Color can be used at your discretion to either represent the objects or improve the composition.”
Henry
Nazir
Shea
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“Put on some music. Draw freely nonrepresentational doodles until that piece of music is over. Match the pace of drawing and your type of line with the type of music. When the song is over put on a completely different pace of song. Repeat matching the pace of drawing and type of line with the music. Do this until the page is completely filled. You can use whatever colors you like or you can draw in a single tool. If you choose colors, work with a variety. If you work with a single tool use a variety of pressures.”
Ty
Cy
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“Tinker Hatfield is a shoe designer responsible for some of the most famous Nike shoe designs ever. He’s the man responsible for most of the Air Jordan designs. He’s also responsible for designing the futuristic self-lacing shoes from the movie Back To The Future 2. Let’s take inspiration from him. Design a completely new pair of shoes. Use a pair or pairs of real shoes to do initial drawings from observation to create the model on which your design will build. You may make them for any purpose you like (walking, casual, sports, fashion, etc…). Include some unexpected feature, anything you want. Do drawings of your design from multiple angles showing off your patterns, colors, and special feature somehow. Think between 3-5 angles of the shoe.”
Theo
Nazir
Nina
Dorsey
