Summer Work for AP Studio Art: Drawing

GRADING CRITERIA

5 Complete Compositions

  • AP QUALITY WORK 
  • SIZE: 7" X 7" min, 18" x 24" max
  • TWO DIMENSIONAL WORKS ONLY
  • NO PHOTO REFERENCES YOU DON'T OWN YOURSELF!

Sketchbook

  • 5 DAYS A WEEK, ALL SUMMER
  • 50 TOTAL PAGES - 30 mins min per day
  • EXCERCISES FOR COMPOSITION

Idea book

  • COLLECTION OF VISUAL IDEAS
  • 100 TWO-DIMENSIONAL WORKS OF ART
  • CAN BE DIGITAL (google drive/slides) or PHYSICAL (binder/sketchbook full of printouts)

5 COMPLETE COMPOSITIONS

Choose from five of the following prompts to create your AP quality compositions:
MIXED MEDIA
  • Composition in which you use at least three different media (such as a wet medium, dry medium, and some collage elements) while focusing on one element and one principle of design.
COLOR SCHEME
  • Create a portrait, still life, or landscape using either a complementary, analogous, or split-complementary color scheme in any 2D medium making color the subject matter. Focus on values.
LAYERED COMPOSITION
  • Create multiple layers of visual information within one work of art. After a few layers, go back to build bridges between lower layers creating unity, paying attention to formal elements of line, shape, value and texture.
PHOTO MANIPULATION
  • Digitally, manually, or otherwise draw into photographs you have taken (and manipulated). 
ARBITRARY COLOR
  • Colored pencil portrait (of any singular object) using arbitrary colors corresponding to values (highlights and shadows) instead of actual skin tones. Style reference: Lui Ferreryra - unrealistic candy colors, faceted hatching 
MYTHOLOGICAL EVENT
  • Create a mythological event. Think up a story involving the imaginary revolt of one of the following: domestic animals, computers, machines, kitchen appliances, elevators, flowers, etc. Visualize your idea by making a convincing illustration of the event.
TWEAKED REPRESENTATION
  • Create a representational composition with your own flair. You can combine disparate elements, or rework a real thing in a new way. Your reference imagery should be something you own (a photo you took, observational drawing of real things, etc. - not from the internet). 
17 VIEWS
  • Create an observational drawing of one object that can change position. Overlay varying positions on top of one another. [Do not use reference images you do not own. Ideally, draw from something you can turn or change the position of and draw each position while looking at the object.] 
ILLUSTRATION
  • Multi-color digital or analog illustration tells an intriguing visual story. Pay attention to compositional space and color palette to create unity. Be sure to use light and shadow to emphasize volumetric forms.
NON FINITO
  • Drawing or painting composition that alternates from a simple contour to a fully rendered form at chosen focal points.
DEEP SPACE
  • Create a composition creating the illusion of deep space. Do not include any heads of people.
OBSERVATIONAL LANDSCAPES
  • Create an observational drawing of a place you have access to for at least an hour. Create a contour drawing in ink that won't run. Then add watercolor in areas of emphasis using a limited split complement color palette.
SPRAY PAINT STENCIL PORTRAIT
  • Use spray paint and a stencil you cut yourself to create a portrait. Cut out 3 color layers, so that the colors overlap to create the illusion of a form with depth. No black outlines. Be creative with how you crop your image. Not all portraits are straight ahead pictures of faces. Stencil the image on three different kinds of surfaces.
LINE QUALITY
  • Use three different kinds of mark making styles to produce seriously different line qualities. Consider how different a line made with a fine tip and ruler is from a large fast brush filled with ink. Can be in one composition or across three compositions. 
NEGATIVE SPACE WITH FORMS
  • Draw multiple versions of a three-dimensional object from multiple angles. Negative space and rhythm are important visual concerns.
ART HISTORY REINTERPRETED
  • Choose a FAMOUS work of art and reimagine it in a new way. Example: Amy Park redid Ed Rucha's photographs as watercolors; Kehinde Wiley reimagined old master paintings with contemporary black figures.
TECHNICAL DRAWING
  • Technical drawings produce a different quality of line than expressive drawings. Create a technical drawing of a real or imaginary object or place. Be sure to use changes in line quality to show volume.
TEXTURES
  • Technical skills like the ability to communicate texture are important to the breadth portfolio. If you do not naturally render textures other than smooth, now is a good time to create a composition (hopefully an interesting one) that includes implied texture [shine, gloss, hair, fur, wet, etc.].

Sketchbook

  • ONE PAGE, 5 DAYS A WEEK, MINIMUM. Filled image area should be at least 5" x 7" every day.
  • CROP AND FILL. Do not make dinky little drawing in the center. Go off edges whenever possible. Fill the page.
  • MIXED MEDIUM. Draw, write, scribble, paint, glue, cut, tear, re-do, cover over, work the surface.
  • VISUAL CONFIDENCE. No cute, pretty, precious, adorable images. Challenge yourself visually.
  • VOLUME. Use light and depth in at least ten images.
  • OBSERVATION. Make at least 20 contour drawings from the world around you. Remember to use the whole page. Look up Felix Scheinberger.
  • TYPOGRAPHY. Practice recreating different fonts and typography you see in the world. Incorporate the text into a composition.
  • WRITE. Write about what you think is working in your sketchbook and what you think needs work or is weak in some area. Use the elements of art and principles of design to be specific in your criticism or praise.
  • EXPERIMENTATION. Your sketchbook should have evidence of trial and error, learning, and growth. Here are some examples of ways to show growth and experimentation: Compose a scene multiple times choosing different framing each time. Rework a composition multiple times using different color palettes. Produce several drawings of one object from different angles to find the best negative space around the figure.
IF YOU DRAW FACES OF PEOPLE OR ANIMALS, DRAW IN 3/4 PERSPECTIVE - NO PROFILES, NO STRAIGHT ON.
You will turn this in as original artwork, not digital copies of original artwork.
Your sketchbook can be a bound book, or a collection of pieces of paper that you keep together.
​It is up to you to decide what shape and style sketchbook to keep.

Ideabook

  • 100 WORKS OF ART THAT YOU LIKE. Collect visual ideas that you feel represent strong design; good use of compositional space, excellent use of color, innovative use of line, etc. 
  • QUALITY WORK. Don't just pick the first 100 things google told you were art. You will use this as a style reference pool for your own work throughout the year. If you were to emulate the work you selected, you would want it to be an AP 5 score.
  • ORGANIZATION. You should organize the images so that they are more useful to you. You can choose to organize them by style, content, theme, or on their technical merits (Elements of Art, Principles of Design). It is more likely technical merits will be useful than by medium, theme, or content.
  • GOOD SOURCES. Google may not be the best collator of great artwork. Try websites that do that work for you. For instance; museums, galleries, thisiscolossal.com, thingsorganizedneatly.com, art slant. Or, go to museums and galleries and take pictures of artwork that interests you.
  • FORMAT. You can turn the images in digitally or in paper format. Each image should have the artists name connected to it. The DIGITAL format could look like one of two things: a Google Drive folder filled with 100 images, each with the artist's name as the file name; or, a Google Slides presentation with an image and artist name on each slide, plus a google folder with the images unorganized. The ANALOG format could look like a binder, book, or portfolio of 100 images printed out with Artist Names written on each page.
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THE IDEABOOK IS USED BY YOU FOR YOUR GREAT IDEAS.
​IT IS USED BY YOUR TEACHER TO GET A SENSE OF YOUR ARTISTIC STYLE AND GIVE YOU BETTER ADVICE AND FEEDBACK.