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Class 4

October 11, 2019

Exploration 2: Sketchbook Introduction 

During this class we will be teaching students the importance of using a sketchbook to develop ideas, and think through their own creative process. This is important because keeping track of their ideas can help students grow as artists, it can help them understand where they started and where they are now. This is something that is important to start at a young age because that can help them grow throughout their artistic development.

Essential Understanding 

Artists and designers use sketchbooks as part of their creative process to think through and develop their ideas.

Learning Targets

After beginning to develop their ideas in the last class, students will be able to further explore and explain their ideas and continue to work on their sketchbooks. After having some time to think through their ideas from their sketchbook, students will be able to engage and persist by making revisions and adding to their previous ideas successfully. After discussion, students will be able to explain why artists and designers use sketchbooks in their creative process, as measured through their contributions to the discussion. 

Key Concepts:

  1. At their table students will go around and talk about what they have put on the cover of their sketchbook, and why they decided to do that for their cover

  2. Students will discuss what their ideas were last class, and what they changed during this class 

  3. Students will write a sentence about why artists and designers use sketchbooks

Skills:

  • Ideation 

  • Collaboration 

  • Imagination 

  • Reflection 

Documentation

Studio Habit: Observation

The Wonderlab teachers will show the students the revisions they have made to their own sketchbooks, and stress the idea that it is ok to start with one idea and end up with another. There is always something we can add to our artwork, even when we think it is finished, to make it more interesting to viewers. 

Studio Habits: Envision and Express

Continuation of sketchbook cover design. In the previous class the student had only illustrated the word, "Yoink." The studio habit "envision" doesn't mean the work is finished in one session. This student kept building upon their original idea to personalize their sketchbook cover.

This student is using text to represent the concept of family. By using words to represent each family member the student is still exploring the studio habit of "express." Art does not have to only be made up of pictures. Designing text is another way to explore personal meaning.

This student added new elements to a previous sketchbook cover concept. They are working on the studio habit of "envision," which sometimes means refining the art to reach an end goal.

In this video, a student describes a character she designed. She is a fan of the Harry Potter series, but for her personal sketchbook, she created her own character. Students often use popular culture as a subject for art, but in this case, the student used the studio habit of "express" to make the work her own.

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