Drama 3301
Theatre Graphics
Gilliam

INTRODUCTORY GRAPHIC EVALUATION (not graded)

To better evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as a graphic artist, the following exercises are intended to demonstrate your present ability with drawing.  It is important for this assessment that you take this seriously and do your best.  When you sit down to complete aspects of this evaluation, do so in an environment that is conducive to creative thought and uninterrupted execution.  Sharpen your pencil frequently.  Think about composition.  Remember that presentation is the first impression of your work.

These exercises are to be executed in your course sketchbook.  Label, date and indicate the amount of time taken for each assignment.  You should spend a total of approximately 4 ½ hours on this assignment.  Set an alarm clock and work until it goes off.

Execute the following in this sequence:

1. Complete several line drawings of the following shapes or relationships:  rectangular boxes, square boxes, pyramids, cylinders, straight vertical lines, straight horizontal lines, and parallel lines.  Print your name 5 times in block capital letters. (30 minutes)
2. From a fashion magazine, in the same scale as the photograph, sketch a costumed female and a costumed male figure.  Attach the photographs when you submit the sketchbook.  (30 minutes EACH figure)
3. In a dark room, set up a reading light on a table.  This should be a single lighting source.  Place a cube under the light and sketch the cube under light indicating all the values you see.  Sketch a fully draped piece of fabric under the same conditions.  (30 minutes EACH subject)
4. Sketch an outdoor scene somewhere on campus showing a building in perspective.  (l hour)