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Drawing

Overview

This honor takes drawing from simple sketches to real artistic skills. You’ll learn how artists use light, shadow, perspective, proportion, shapes, and depth to make drawings look realistic and expressive. This honor is about learning to really see like an artist. You’ll turn basic shapes into animals, objects, and landscapes while mastering proportion, perspective, depth, light, and shadow. Most importantly, you’ll discover how drawing can be a way to appreciate and reflect the creativity of the Creator. 🎨✨

Requirements

1. Make a list of Drawing Media.

2. What is Chiaroscuro? And what effect does it have on drawing?

3. Draw a Value Scale with at least 10 different values.

4. What is the best way to begin drawing until you are sure all sizes, placement and proportions are correct?

5. Know the difference between eye level, bird’s eye view and worm’s eye view.

6. Show foreground, middle ground and background in a simple landscape.

7. What is a “multi-media” drawing?

8. Explain Linear Perspective and list at least 4 ways to achieve it when drawing a landscape.

9. Draw a cylindrical object and a rectangular object grouped together a little below the eye, showing proper perspective, light and shade.

10. Understand and describe these types of subject matter:

  • a. Portraits
  • b. Landscapes
  • c. Still Life
  • d. Abstract

11. Draw an animal using simple shapes such as squares, triangles, rectangles.

12. Make a freehand sketch of an animal, showing in values the distribution of color.

13. Make a drawing of some landscape near your home.

14. Draw and shade in a still life.

15. Memorize Psalm 33:6, and discuss how it relates to drawing.

Answer key & resources

Master awards

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Investiture Achievement

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See also

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