Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today about dream portraits through drawing and digital design.

We're going to do lots of thinking, talking, and exploring together in this lesson.

So shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson you'll be able to create an outline by using a variety of drawing materials and line styles.

Before we start I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these words down.

The key words we'll be using today are line, geometric shapes, organic shapes, and outline.

I'm going to say those again and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Line.

Geometric shapes.

Organic shapes.

Outline.

Good job.

Now let's think in more detail about what these keywords mean by taking a look at each of their definitions.

A line is a mark made by a moving point, such as a pencil or brush.

Geometric shapes are shapes that have uniform measurements and do not appear in nature.

Organic shapes are shapes that do not have straight lines and are found in nature.

An outline gives us a more precise shape of the object or person we are drawing.

Pause the video here to make a note of these keywords, and when you're ready to continue, press Play.

These are the learning cycles that we'll be working through together in today's lesson.

Exploring a range of line styles and planning and drawing an outline.

In this first learning cycle let's explore a range of line styles.

A line is one of the formal elements of art.

This means that it is one of the tools an artist can use to create an artwork.

By using different styles of line an artist can make their artwork more interesting.

Take a look at this image here of different lines that have been created.

An artist can use a wide variety of lines.

They can use straight lines, dotted lines, scuttered lines, curved lines, thick and thin lines, and scribbled lines.

Lines can also be drawn using different materials.

So maybe charcoal, pencil, ballpoint pen, water soluble pen, oil pastel, or digital media.

So here's a range of different materials you can use to draw lines.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which of these can be used to draw a variety of lines? Charcoal, a water cup, pencils.

Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said both charcoal and pencils you're right.

It's any material that we can make a mark with that can be used to draw lines.

Andeep is exploring lines made with a pencil.

Andeep says, "I'm going to draw some lines with my pencil.

I think I can soften my lines using a rubber." So here's his drawing here with the pencil lines, and he's used his rubber to soften those lines.

Can you see? Now what happens if I use my finger to blur the lines too? Hmm.

That's an interesting thought.

Well, this is what it looks like here.

Andeep continues exploring lines with his materials.

"I'm now going to add a dotted line in pen.

What happens if I draw some scuttered lines over the top?" Let's take a look.

What do you think of Andeep's drawing there? What happens if he uses water to soften his lines? Hmm.

Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner.

What do you think gonna happen if he adds water here? Press play when you're ready to continue.

What do you think? Should we take a look? Ah, can we see the difference? It's blurred a little bit, hasn't it? Artists can experiment with different combinations of line styles and materials to find the effect they like best.

Sometimes it can take a lot of experiments before an artist finds what they like.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Is this statement true or false? Line is one of the formal elements of art.

Pause the video here and take a moment to think.

Is this statement true or false? And press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that's true, you're absolutely right.

Why is that statement true? Pause the video here and have a quick discussion with your partner, and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Well, if you said that line is one of the formal elements of art, it is one of the tools used by artists to create their artwork, then you're right.

Well done.

Artists such as Albrecht Durer use different styles of line.

The plates on the rhino's stomach in "The Rhinoceros," 1515, have been drawn with different line styles.

The surrealist artist, Joan Miro, used line in a different way.

In "The Caress of the Stars," 1938, Miro also uses dotted lines, thick lines, and curved lines, but he has created a very different artwork.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to select an artwork and reproduce the different line styles you see in it.

Think about using a viewfinder to help you find a few different line styles at a time.

Maybe use a range of different materials and a mixture of different lines in your own composition.

Pause the video here and give yourself enough time to have a go at that and press Play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, you might have used something like this.

A small segment of the artist's work and recreated it.

You maybe use materials such as charcoal, pen, and pencil.

And maybe you've shown a combination of different line styles of your own design.

Maybe yours looks a bit like this drawing here.

Well done for having a go at that learning task of reproducing different line styles in artworks.

This brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to look at planning and drawing an outline.

Now there are two types of shapes that we can use to help us draw an outline.

We've got geometric shapes.

These shapes have straight lines, angles, and do not appear in nature.

And then we have organic shapes.

These shapes do not have straight lines and are found in nature.

Take a look at those geometric shapes and organic shapes.

Look at the differences there between the shapes.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which of these shapes could be described as organic? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that it's B, you're absolutely right.

This is the only shape without any straight lines.

When starting a drawing, it can be helpful to use shapes to plan how your drawing will look.

This means we can get the shapes in the right place before we add extra information.

Sophia is going to plan a sleeping portrait.

She's going to use shapes to help her.

Sophia says, "First I'm going to draw the geometric shapes I can see in the sleeping figure." So can you see the geometric shapes that we've drawn here? One for the head and one for the thigh of the leg there.

Now next she's going to add the organic shapes that she can see in the figure.

We've got these here, sort of a wiggly organic shape for where the arm is.

And then another one down by the bottom where the feet and the lower leg are.

Jun looks at Sophia's shapes.

Now he says, "I think one of the organic shapes is a bit too big." Which organic shape do you think Sophia should change? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner, and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? That's right.

It's the one where the arm is.

So here she's changed that shape.

She thinks that her shapes are now more accurate.

We haven't got that bit hanging over from the arm.

It's now nice and within the shape.

Jun says, "Yes, they are much better.

Maybe you need to add some more shapes for the hands and the body." Hmm, that's maybe a good idea.

So Sophia adds some more shapes, including the hands and the body.

We see those two new shapes that have been added.

Sophia says, "I think adding organic shapes for the hands is best." And Jun agrees.

He thinks that's a great idea.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Is this statement true or false? It's easier to sketch an outline without first using shapes.

Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think, is this statement true or false? And press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said it was false, you're right.

Well done.

But why is this statement false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press Play when you're ready to continue.

Now, if you said that shapes can be used to help with planning a drawing before an artist draws a more accurate outline, then you're right.

Well done.

When the organic and geometric shapes are in the right place, we can begin the outline.

So an outline gives us a more precise shape of the object or person we are drawing.

Can you see how the outline has been added in black around our organic and geometric shapes? So now we've taken away the shapes because we've been able to use them to guide our outline, but we don't need them anymore.

Sophia is thinking about her outline.

"I could draw a solid line.

I'll use my shapes to guide me and I'll use a thick line to make my outline stand out." Jun looks at the start of Sophia's drawing.

"Remember, you can vary the style of line that you're using to make your outline more interesting." "Oh, yes," Sophia says, "I could change my line to be thicker where it is darker.

Perhaps I can use a dotted line where it is lighter." Let's take a moment to pause here.

What else could Sophia do to improve her drawing? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner about what Sophia could do to improve her drawing, and press Play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think she could do? Well, Sophia says, "I've tried to use different line styles." And Jun says, "Well, how about using different materials? You could try pen, pencil, or charcoal." So that's another way that Sophia could improve her drawing, not just new line styles, but actually different materials.

This brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to follow the steps below to create an outline of a sleeping portrait.

So draw the geometric shapes you can see in the figure.

Next, draw the organic shapes within the figure.

Then look at your drawing.

Is everything where it should be? Explore using different line styles to create your outline and then consider layering different materials to create a more interesting outline.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to plan and draw this outline of a sleeping portrait, and press Play when you're ready to continue.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully you were able to move through each of those steps to have a go at creating that outline.

Now you might have used geometric and organic shapes to plan your drawing.

Then maybe use different line styles and materials to create your outline.

And maybe you had a few goes at getting your shapes in the right places.

And hopefully you have an outline of a sleeping portrait, a bit like this one here.

Can you see where some of it is darker and some of it's lighter using those different line styles and using some of those different materials? Well done for having a go at that learning task.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about making a portrait of a sleeping person.

Lines can be created with a variety of drawing materials used in different ways.

Geometric and organic shapes are helpful to use when planning a drawing.

An outline can be created using a variety of line styles in a variety of materials.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson today.

I hope to see you in the next one.

See you next time.