ART & DESIGN - YEAR 8

Hello Year 8 – we hope that you are all safe

and well. Please complete the tasks in this

Powerpoint this week for us

In order to complete this week’s tasks you will need the

following:

Paper – any paper will do, even lined paper

Pencils – HB and colouring pencils if possible

Pens – different colours if possible

Coffee/watercolours – if you have any

A mirror or a photo of yourself (printed or on screen)

When you have completed the tasks we would like

you to keep them safe and hand them in once we

are back at school

LEARNING

PURPOSE:

LO1: I will learn about

the technique of

continuous line in

producing 3 self

portraits

LO2: I will explore

light and shade, line

and colour in my

drawings

LINKS TO

FUTURE

LEARNING

GCSE

coursework

drawings

Year 10

experimental

drawing

techniques

LINKS TO

PREVIOUS

LEARNING

Mark making

work in

Year 8

Previous

research into

continuous line

artists

KEY VOCABULARY: Continuous, Observation, Control, Technique, Scribble, Mark making, Linear, Tonal

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE

Last week we learned about what a

‘continuous line’ drawing is. You have

researched some different artists who

have used continuous line and should

have found lots of examples of this

techniques online

A quick re-cap……

Kris Tappaniers

Mick Burton

Alberto Giacometti

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE

Watch this video of an artist making a

continuous line drawing of himself.

Look carefully at how he uses his pen

to travel around the face without lifting

it up

How to make a continuous line drawing……

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpd3CsbLky4

Look at how the face end up

being split into lots of

sections in these examples

too

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE The task for today……

We would like you to make 3

continuous line drawings of

your face today (we will be

adding colour to these later on)

To do this you will first need:

Paper x 3 sheets

Pencils / pens

A mirror OR a photo of yourself

(printed or on screen)

Look at the next slide before

you start drawing!

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE Hints and tips for your 3

drawings……

Try Pencil for your first

drawing if you’re a little

scared of pen straight

away

Make each one a

different pose if you

can

In one of them try to

indicate background

elements too

Go slowly and press

lightly at first then build

up darker as you go

Don’t worry if they don’t look

exactly like you! (can you

guess who these 3 are of?)

Show your neck – don’t

have a floating head!

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE Now for some colour……

If you have time then let’s add some

colour to your drawings!

Choose some of the ways below in order to

make your drawings even more visually

interesting:

Geometric lines in some areas

More line work in bright colourful pens or colouring

pencils

Block some areas in with a colour

Add some coffee or watercolour into your piece

Look at the following 3

slides for my examples!

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE Examples using colour……

I worked into my pencil drawing with a

little bit of pen, coffee (which a

crushed up and then sprinked into

watery areas) and some watercolour

(not realistic colours but I put darker

tones into areas of shadow)

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE Examples using colour……

I worked into one of my biro drawings

with some bright red pen and also

added some extra black line work.

Some lines are geometric and some

are not. This has given me a really

abstract design

ART & DESIGN - Y8 – CONTINUOUS LINE Examples using colour……

In my final pen drawing I chose a colour set

with a light/mid/dark in it. I then added a lot

more scribble into my piece – yellow for lighter

areas, green in some mid tone areas and blue

for darker areas. I also worked into the

background more with pen

ART & DESIGN - YEAR 8

We hope you enjoyed the tasks for today!

Make sure you keep your work safe and

together as we would very much like to see

it all when we get back

We will be doing lots more drawing tasks in

the next few weeks – so keep all of your

drawings together and later this term we will

be showing you how ideas for making them

into a sketchbook