These examples are for 2D Studio portfolios.

AP 2D First Semester Breadth Assignments

Value Still-life Drawings Students will continue multiple sighting and measuring techniques. Students will Manipulate a variety of black and white media and color

media. Students will demonstrate professional presentation skills and

craftsmanship. Students will apply overlapping, foreshortening and diminishing scale. Students will one and two point linear perspective observational

drawing. Students will render three-dimensional form with contour line, cross-

contour line, mark-making, light and shadow. Students will organize the compositional relationship of objects to each

other within the picture plane. Students will apply appropriate terminology for discussion and

objective critique of class work.

Assignment #1- Value Still Life due 8/23

Value Still Life Color Focus

Value Study With Color Focus

Good composition Value still life

Soft value still life and value still life with texture

Value Still life graphite

Value Still life in pastel

Value Still Life in Colored Pencil

Prismacolor still life that tells a story

Value Still Life colored pencil marbles in a jar.

Value Still Life mixed media

Assignment #2- Jim Dine’s Tool Box due 9/30

Jim Dine- Artist

Jim Dine Charcoal Tool

Tools Study textures

Assignment #7-Vegetable Study- Any color media. Shown here is Ink and Oil Pastel

Watercolor Vegetable Study

Pastel Vegetable Study

Pastel Veggie Study

Watercolor Veggie study

Watercolor veggies

Abstract oil pastel of gourds

Students will explore one and two point perspective to create architectural interior space drawings on campus. Students will use at least 5 kinds of mark-making such as hatching, cross-hatching, parallel line drawing, scribble, stippling and alternative mark-making to build up their values and address surface texture.

Students will continue multiple sighting and measuring techniques. Students will manipulate a variety of black and white media and color media. Students will demonstrate professional presentation skills and craftsmanship. Students will apply overlapping, foreshortening and diminishing scale. Students will apply one and two point linear perspective observational drawing. Students will render three-dimensional form with contour line, cross-contour

line, mark-making light and shadow. Students will organize the compositional relationship of objects to each other

within the picture plane. Students will apply appropriate terminology for discussion and objective

critique of class work.

Assignment # 8-Perspective Drawing with Ink

1 Point Perspective Drawing with Value

Add something different!!!

This project is designed to enhance student observation, rendering, and sighting/measuring skills through the process of drawing the head and facial features. Bone structure, light and shadow ,angles and proportions, and the manipulation of graphite pencils were all areas that were emphasized within this assignment.

Students will use sighting and measuring to create accurate proportions, angles, positive and negative shapes as they apply to the figure.

Students will manipulate a variety of line and shading to render the figure. Students will continue to develop professional presentation skills and craftsmanship. Students will understand, identify by name and draw the skeletal and muscular structure

of the human body. Students will render three dimensional form with light and shadow. Students will understand placement of weight and balance of the figure. Students will capture the essential dynamic elements of the gesture pose. Students will draw the figure in complex poses including foreshortening. Students will organize the placement of the figure/figures within the picture plane. Students will analyze the work of masters. Students will use appropriate terminology to objectively critique work Students will apply life drawing vocabulary in critiques.

Assignment #5- Life Drawing due10/11

Figure Study Mixed Media

Figure Study Body Copy Greyscale

Figure Study in pencil- surreal

Figure Study

Figure Study with acrylic paint. Mixed Media.

Figure study acrylic paint mixed media

Charcoal

Self Portrait-Assignment #3-Due 10/11

Self Portrait

Self portrait showing emotions, surrealism. Pencil

Self Portrait

Creative angle

Painted self portrait and scratchboard

Self Portrait

Assignment # 6- Wrapped Object -10/25

Wrapped Object

Fragmented Identity

Photoshop self portrait fragmented identity using real glass.

Assignment #8-Entropy, insect study-due 11/22

Surrealistic insect drawing

Beautiful Beetles in prismacolor

Magazine collage insect

Assignment #9-Bone Study due 12/6

Watercolor and felt tipped pen

Photoshop digital skeleton

Figure Study, assignment #10- due 12/20 mixed media

Assignment #11-Bicycle any 2D media-due 1/21

Watercolor bike

Bicycle Drawings, varieties

Bike- pencil- surreal approach

Assignment # 12-Artist’s Choice, lots of students draw an elderly subject portrait using charcoals