AP Drawing Portfolio
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Explore drawing issues including line quality, light and shade, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulation, the illusion of depth and mark-making through a variety of means, such as painting, printmaking or mixed media.
Drawing Breadth Portfolio
The student’s work in this section should show evidence of conceptual, perceptual, expressive, and technical range; thus, the student’s work should demonstrate a variety of drawing skills and approaches.
Requirements: For this section, students must submit a total of 12 digital images of 12 different works.
Examples:
• The use of various spatial systems, such as linear perspective, the illusion of three dimensional forms, aerial views, and other ways of creating and organizing space
• The use of various subjects, such as the human figure, landscape, and still-life objects
• The use of various kinds of content, such as that derived from observation,
an expressionistic viewpoint, imaginary or psychological imagery, social commentary, political statements; and other personal interests
• Arrangement of forms in a complex visual space
• The use of different approaches to represent form and space, such as rendered, gestural, painterly, expressionist, stylized, or abstract form
• The investigation of expressive mark-making
Drawing Concentration Portfolio
A concentration is a body of related works that demonstrate a student’s sustained and thoughtful investigation of a specific visual idea. It is not a selection of a variety of works produced as solutions to class projects or a collection of works with differing intents. Students should be encouraged to explore a personal, central interest as intensively as possible; they are free to work with any idea in any medium that addresses drawing issues. The concentration should grow out of the student’s idea and demonstrate growth and/or discovery through a number of conceptually related works. In this section, the evaluators are interested not only in the work presented but also in visual evidence of the student’s thinking, selected method of working and development of the work over time. Students are encouraged to include images that document their processes of thinking and creating.
Drawing Summer Homework
Choose from the following list of drawing projects to create FIVE or more complete works of art. You may choose to do more than one of a topic but vary the media used, color scheme, and/or perspective/composition:
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Figurative Foreshortening -draw a human in a dymanic pose creating a sense of depth. See examples. Use your choice of media.
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Reflective Still Life -Arrange several reflective, shiny, and/or transparent objects. Use charcoal or charcoal pencil
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Figure Narrative Assignment -This assignment is open to any drawing technique or material. The requirements are to include at least one human figure, personified animal, or anthropomorphic animal and try to illustrate some sort of narrative with your drawing. Try to tell a story in a single frame.
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Photorealistic Portrait Drawing -Fine a clear and interesting photo to reference. Use a grid for precision. Use sketch pencils and a blender.
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Expressive Portrait- Use mixed media to create a partially unfinished portrait. You must have some kind of background- DO NOT LEAVE IT EMPTY or just do a simple gradient/fade. Instead, fill the area around the head/body with something that enhances the portrait: a collage, stained paper, a texture (like wood grain or marble) or patterns (like zentangles), symbols (like birds or insects), architectural elements (like a doorway or a bridge), or anything else that helps the piece be more interesting.
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Bicycle -Crop a bicycle including 2/3rds or entire bike in the drawing. Draw in full detail. Shading is optional. Use weighted contour lines. You may reference a photo from the internet.
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Animal Portrait -draw a photorealistic portrait of an animal. Choose an interesting photo to work from and pay close attention to shading and texture. Use pencil, charcoal pencil, or colored pencil.
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Multiple Views -choose and interesting manmade object and draw it in nine different squares from nine different points of view. It helps to use a viewfinder like your phone camera to crop. You may want to add a small gutter of space between the squares.
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Stippled Architecture -choose an interesting section of a buidling and draw shade it using only dots of pen.