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For this assignment you'll be making your weirdest, worst, or silliest drawing possible for someone else to color. The goal of this assignment is to understand how basic, fundamental art skills that anyone can learn will transform a "bad" drawing into something more.
Learning, practicing, and applying certain easy to learn techniques with watercolor, acrylics, colored pencils, etc. can elevate any drawing.
This one is made with acrylic paints and uses the complementary colors blue and orange. The warm yellow background, done with crayons, contrasts with blue colors of the Yahrngle.
The Ploit is done with colored pencil over a wash of blue acrylic paint. The background is made with crayons and uses warm colors to contrast against the figure.
The Monster Engine is a 2005 art book by illustrator Dave DeVries that features realistic, 3D paintings of monsters based on children's drawings, transforming simple sketches into detailed, often humorous, creatures using acrylics, airbrush, and colored pencils
STEP 1 - You have 5 minutes to draw a picture of anything (school appropriate). Don't add detail, and keep it simple - like something you might have drawn in 2nd grade. Write your name on the back so you don't get your own drawing back!
STEP 2 - Turn in your drawings so they can be randomly passed back.
STEP 3 - When you get the drawing you'll work on you can begin! So where do you start? Follow the guide below to help you get started.
Step 1 - Take your drawing and decide what colors you'd like to use. Use the color wheel to help.
Step 2 - I want to make this thing orange, so I'm going to paint the background with the complementary color blue. Use watercolor or acrylics thinned with water to do a wash over the background like you did in the Mixed Media Intro.
Step 3 - Dry your background and move on to the main color for you subject. I mixed a little blue into my orange to make the back legs darker on this thing.
Step 4 - This isn't really the last step, but at this point keep layering your different mediums to create detail. You can use thicker applications of paint, colored pencils, inks, crayon, etc. It's all up to you!
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