In addition to readings and films to watch, we're encouraging our students to spend some time over the Summer carefully observing and sketching. Sketching is one of those critical communication skills that only gets better with practice. It's core to visual communication whether someone is drawing a picture, a diagram, or a system. Each week, we'll take a new theme and share the best of our sketches for comments and feedback but, mostly, the point is simply to loosen-up our wrists and arms and practice.
Hands
Shoes
Trees/Plants
Building in Perspective
People Shopping
Skyline
Landscape
Portrait
Animal
System
Self-portrait
Emotion (can be representational or abstract)
Comments (2)
I'd have a whole lot less heartburn with the activity if you called it Visual Thinking and not sketching. Sketching is too specific.
Posted by Rotkapchen | June 1, 2009 3:51 PM
Posted on June 1, 2009 15:51
In this case, it really is about sketching, specifically. It's a core skill that most of us don't exercise and it's a nice way to loosen-up before the school year starts.
Posted by Nathan | June 1, 2009 4:24 PM
Posted on June 1, 2009 16:24