This lesson served as a final project (one-day) at the high school, and simply as a comprehensive exercise at the middle school.

Procedure:

1. Use the manikin as a model.
• Three students per manikin
• All three students agree together on a pose
• After it is positioned, do not move the manikin
2. Draw the outlines/contours of the manikin
• Draw what you see
• Have the body fill the paper, but small parts may go off the edges
• Draw lightly
3. Create an imaginary clothed person
• Base it on your drawing in step #2
• Color the drawing, using a range of value to show shading and roundness
• If time, draw an appropriate background

UPDATE 01-05-07: Student Work

I will try to get more photos, but for now I will post this 7th grader’s drawing without comment.

UPDATE 01-13-07: Student Work

Here are four drawings from high schoolers.

 

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