SSD+(Sustained+Silent+Drawing)

Grade 7 Sketch List
 * Be sure to read ALL instructions**


 * You will spend the first 10-15 minutes of every class drawing in your sketch book. **
 * If you finish an assignment early, you can do sketches. **
 * Sketches may be done at home **
 * Each finished sketch counts for %2 of your final mark **
 * Only work that is finished, i.e. shows what you have learned in Art class, will be counted. That would include a knowledge of shading, perspective, colour, line, shape, texture, and composition. **


 * Design - No marker** . **Objects extending to or past the edge of the paper, in interesting arrangements. You may use coloured pencil, pencil, pen and ink.**


 * 1) Design an image that relates to a period in Art history.
 * 2) Find a famous painting and update it for this year.
 * 3) Using perspective, draw the interior of a room, real or imagined. Use shading to show where the light is coming from.
 * 4) Create an abstract pattern using organic shapes, such as the outline of your hand. Fill the spaces with colours and textures. Have a variety of shapes, layers and sizes.
 * 5) Create a short comic strip using your own characters.
 * 6) Create a continuous line drawing (your pencil doesn’t leave the page until you are finished, like an ‘etch-a-sketch’) with detail and shading.
 * 7) Draw a picture with shading. Cut your picture into shapes. Paste the shapes into a new design.
 * 8) Draw a city block in perspective. It may contain any details you wish (time of year, country, etc.)
 * 9) Design a poster for a movie you may have seen.
 * 10) Create a company logo that matches similar logos for the same sort of product.
 * 11) Draw a poem or short story with pictures and words on the same page.
 * 12) Make a picture using only words or letters to draw with
 * Still Life -** **Objects extending to or past the edge of the paper. Draw them in pencil with shading.**
 * 1) Arrange your shoes in an **interesting** way and draw them.
 * 2) Draw your hands the best you can in different positions. Draw more than one on a single page.
 * 3) Draw something close up in high detail.
 * 4) Draw an arrangement of flowers, not from memory.
 * 5) Create a still life from objects around the room, and fill your page with an up close picture of it.
 * 6) Create a drawing without using line, only shading.
 * 7) Draw a still life using different materials for different sections.
 * 8) Draw from memory a place you once visited.
 * 9) Draw an abstract pattern then use those lines to create a realistic still life.
 * 10) Create a still life using bits of colour paper from magazines etc.
 * 11) From your seat, draw the Art room with perspective. The vanishing point may appear off of your page.
 * 12) Create a still life from something you may have seen in a dream.

Technique – Fill your page, experimenting with different materials (pencil, charcoal, pen) or kinds of line, or texture.


 * 1) Practice drawing faces (portraits) using a mirror or a partner.
 * 2) Practice perspective drawing in a landscape. Remember to include details in the foreground as well as the background.
 * 3) Draw a person using the wood mannequins. Sketch them in different styles and positions.
 * 4) Create a drawing using only shading, and no line.
 * 5) Sketch a still life using a pen. Use hatching and cross hatching to shade.
 * 6) Study a famous work of art from one of the posters in the room, and re-create it in a different material.
 * 7) Draw the reflections on a shiny object.
 * 8) Create a drawing from a magazine/newspaper photo.
 * 9) Draw an image multiple times using a different sketching style for each one, i.e. hatching, stippling, scribbling, mixed media, etc.
 * 10) Use light and shadow to create a strong composition. See the Rembrandt portrait on the wall for ideas. Light and dark areas should balance, and reach all four sides of your page.
 * 11) Using perspective, draw small objects as if they were very large, like paper clips or clothespins.
 * 12) Draw a visible object (hand, jar, book, etc.) without looking at your paper or lifting your pencil. Include as many details as you can, not just the outside shape.

Creative Creations – Fill the entire page, in any material in any style
 * 1) Create an abstract image that shows emotion. Draw ‘happy’ or ‘sad’, using line, shape, value, texture. **Do not use images of actual objects**
 * 2) Design a new vehicle.
 * 3) Draw an image as though you had x-ray vision.
 * 4) Draw your view from an airplane window
 * 5) Draw a ‘visual pun’. Example: draw ‘time flies’, by drawing a clock with wings.
 * 6) Draw a view from under a magnifying glass.
 * 7) Combine two different objects into one object. (i.e. pencil sharpener race car)
 * 8) Draw a picture that contains multiple different views of the same object. Layer your images and change the size of each drawing.
 * 9) Create a picture that uses different materials to shade with (collage, crayon, plastic bag, rags, chalk, pen, etc.)
 * 10) Design a ridiculously complicated machine for a simple task (i.e. cracking an egg).
 * 11) Invent or re-invent something. Create notes to explain what your invention does and label the parts. You may need to create several sketches first.
 * 12) Create a ‘storyboard’ for a segment of a video game, movie or TV show.
 * 13) Your choice.
 * 14) Your choice again.