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Honoria Starbuck Ph.D. Teaching PortfolioArt Institute of AustinSummer 2010Courses: Life Drawing and Anatomy and Life Drawing and GestureMedia Arts and Animation Department
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Life Drawing and Gesture Student Work 2010
Art Ins:tute of Aus:n Honoria Starbuck Teaching PorAolio
Contents
• Midterm work with quotes from students’ ar:st statements
• Drawing and cri:que ac:vi:es • Group shots of students in classroom with drawings
• Exams
Teaching Philosophy
As a student-‐focused teacher my goal is to foster individual and collabora-ve crea-vity. My teaching style is to build a classroom learning community with group dynamics that support the success of all students to achieve course competencies. These dynamics build responsibility and professional communica:on skills as well as confidence in drawing in a variety of techniques.
The most helpful thing has been emphasizing fast short 1 or 2-‐minute poses. It has helped me improve my sense of propor:on and accuracy in fast drawings.
Some:mes I forget the basic rule of “simple to complex” and it reflects in the final product of my drawings. However, in these examples, they represent my confidence of u:lizing gesture drawing as the ini:al steps to crea:ng strong composi:on.
I feel like I captured the essence of the story in a highly effec:ve way. For my future work I plan to express myself in a variety of styles as opposed to just realism.
Good art comes to us at different :mes for different reasons. The more finished of the three is my favorite because I was able to really look and get my lights and darks in there to really deepen the piece. I plan to con:nue to grow and play with new media and new paper to see what I can come up with …
The more I draw the closer I feel to my imagina:on, the more I feel like I am expressing myself. Recently I have begun to understand that art is not something I can control, it’s something I become.
My next step as an ar:st is to focus not only on anatomy, but also on clothing and personality. I want to start crea:ng my go to characters and have a whole list of them, just having a party in my mind wai:ng to come out.
The exci:ng thing about art is that it speaks for itself. Art for me is just visual poetry.
Outside Drawing Ac:vity
Chapter 6 of our textbook discusses rela:onships to character, story, and background.
To ground the lesson the model posed outside and students incorporated nature and architectural elements into the drawings.
I had more room to draw! I felt freer!
Can we go back ou
tside to draw?
Poses with stories Model looking into a simulated pool. Students drew myth of narcissus – femme version.
Textbook presenta:on ac:vity
Student teams are responsible for presen:ng highlights of the weekly readings.
Sequence Drawing ac:vity Students experiment with different ways to indicate mo:on in sequence drawings.
Myth Illustra:on Ac:vity: Semester project Illustrate one labor of Hercules per week in two drawings emphasizing gesture.
Daily Cri:que Ac:vity Students apply the concepts of design fundamentals to build stronger life drawings.
Every drawing is given serious considera:on as students use a checklist of elements of design to create meaningful cri:que of each others work.
Monster A`ack Ac:vity
Students work together on large paper discarded from the photography studio.
The model swoops down on students pretending to be a Valkyrie or Raptor forcing students to quickly draw from the worm’s view perspec:ve to capture essen:al gestural informa:on.
Large improv group drawing featuring a model with a raptor mask.
Group drawing ac:vi:es get students close to each other to share crea:ve vision and techniques to interpret the story prompted by costumes or masks.
3 layer drawing: Draw a gesture layer; then a contour layer, then a drama layer.
One week, ader seeing the Hercules homework, a hydra head was the fourth layer.
Comprehensive drawing exams at mid-‐term and final
Exams for this class include • Wri`en exam on textbook topics • Drawing skills exam aligned with course objec:ves • Presenta:on of the best 3 drawings from the first or second half • Wri`en ar:st statement presented to the group
Thank you for looking at this snapshot into my teaching techniques.
A sincere and hearAelt apprecia:on of my students who always inspire me to expand my teaching poten:al.
Honoria Starbuck Ph.D. [email protected]