Sketching Essentials (Grades 3-8)

Sketching Essentials is designed to help students develop a strong observational understanding of perspective, value, and organic forms. Through the study of form, shape, space, and texture, students will refine their technical drawing skills while learning to make creative and intentional artistic choices. This class emphasizes depth, contrast, and spatial awareness, teaching students how to recreate objects and images with accuracy and expression. Topics include facial expressions, still life, one-point perspective, character design, mason jars & lanterns, animal drawing, and atmospheric perspective.

Course Objectives & Skills:

• Master value gradients to create realistic shading

• Develop an understanding of three-dimensional perspective

• Learn to break down and reconstruct forms

• Enhance depth and contrast in drawings

• Use value blocking to define light and shadow

• Explore organic and geometric shapes for dynamic compositions

Sketching Essentials素描基础 旨在帮助学生培养对透视、明暗关系和有机形态的观察理解。通过对形态、形状、空间和纹理的深入学习，学生将在提升技术绘画技能的同时，学会如何做出富有创意且有目的性的艺术选择。本课程强调深度、对比和空间感，指导学生精准且富有表现力地再现物体和图像。课程主题包括面部表情、静物、一点透视、角色设计、梅森罐与灯笼、动物绘画及大气透视等。

课程目标与技能：

• 掌握明暗渐变以营造逼真的光影效果

• 理解三维透视原理

• 学会将物体分解并重新构造

• 提高绘画中的深度感和对比度

• 运用明暗块面来定义光影关系

• 探索有机形态与几何图形以创造富有动感的构图