Bonus Assignments 

Any Type of Visual Image and Creative Ideas Can and Should be Submitted!

Here are some ideas, but you can research so many more and all are valid and good!

1. 1.Cartooning using computer programs
   

2. 2.Developing a website
   

3. 3.Designing any type of advertising and artistic layouts of all types (your choice)
   

4. 4.Using Sketch-Up to create perspective drawings of buildings
   

5. 5.Develop you own calendar
   

6. 6.Look into Pages and InDesign, create magazine covers, newsletters, books, etc.
   

7. 7.Graffiti drawings
   

8. 8.Tattoo drawings
   

9. 9.Any creative visual ideas of your choice.
   

Don’t Know What to Draw?.......... Here are 40 Other Sketchbook Ideas:

1. Instead of a hand… your foot (no socks or shoes).

2. Something not pretty.

3. An interior of something.

4. Inside of a closet.

5. Three unlikely objects together.

6. A houseplant, real or artificial.

7. Junk food with wrappers.

8. An object melting

9. Hands holding something

10. A close-up of 3-5 pieces of popped popcorn

11. A metallic object and everything you see in it.

12. Design an imaginary vehicle

13. Views of a vehicle, machine, bike, skateboard, etc.

14. A favorite piece of furniture

15. Your greatest fear, your biggest hope, or your dream for the future

16. Collection of objects: toys, books (opened, closed, stacked), kitchen utensils, art 

      materials, contrasting texture items, knick-knack collections, crumpled paper bags, still

      life of fruit or vegetables, clothing hung from hooks or chair backs, assorted balls, a

      collection of cans from the pantry or shampoo bottles from the shower, stacks of shoes,

      old hats, spools of thread, etc. etc.

17. Draw an abstract quality or idea: the wind, sadness, happiness, loneliness, joy, fear, etc

18. An imaginary place

19. A place around the outside of your home

20. Draw the exterior of your home

21. An imaginary life form – part human, part animal, part plant, etc.

22. Draw several studies of your eyes, nose and mouth in a variety of positions

23. Draw your reflection in a shiny surfaced object (toaster, bowl, spoon)

24. Draw a landscape from observation.  Show a foreground, middle ground & background.

25. A family member while they are reading or watching T.V.

26. Your favorite person (from life).

27. Your best friend (from life).

28. Illustrate a famous saying/quotation.

29. Draw your favorite song

30. Represent a favorite poem through a drawing (include the poem).

31. Bottles and cans – crush the cans up for lots of detail and contrast to the smooth bottles

32. Drapery study – a towel, shirt or blanket draped around or on another object to create lots

      of wrinkles.  Focus on the shapes of folds and creases and the shadows that are created.

33. The contents of a trash can

34. A cluttered place close-up

35. Draw an object that is lit by a candle.

36. Take out a library book on any artist of your choosing and duplicate their artwork. Include

      a Xerox copy.

37. Illustrate a dream you have had.

38. Draw an object that relates to your identity.

39. Draw a sleeping pet.

40. Draw a mysterious doorway – what is trying to go in or get out?

Image Development Strategies

1. Abstraction: Create your vision of a city that never sleeps.  After sketching a cityscape, experiment with the play of shapes, patterns and lines found in the city.  You can introduce different point of view and reduce areas to geometric shapes and patterns.

2. 2.Animation: Repeat an image of a figure in action by repeating it in various stages on an activity.
   

3. 3.Distortion: Scan an image into the scanner.  Stretch, fish eye, bend and compress your image and print different versions.  Collage them to create a dream-like interpretation.
   

4. 4.Elaboration: Create your vision of a tattoo that fits either your face or hand. Include patterns, textures, and embellishments, include elements that suggest your culture, interests, history and personality.
   

5. 5.Juxtaposition: Create a drawing that expresses opposite feelings and combines contradictory elements.
   

6. 6.Magnification: With a viewfinder, select a small significant section of a photo of yourself as a young child.  Enlarge it in a detailed drawing in order to give significance and insight into an aspect of who you are.
   

7. 7.Metamorphosis: Create a design which depicts pain or sorrow and then turns into feelings of renewal or joy. or Draw a fruit in a cycle of decomposition and renewed growth, and as a metaphor for transformation.
   

8. 8.Multiplication: Repeat an image of a person, a tree or landscape and change colors, textures and tone to suggest various seasons, moods or times of day.
   

9. 9.Reversals: Choose a portrait.  Simplify the image into black and white.  Eliminate any grey.  Reverse this image into the opposite of black and white.  Make the blacks white and the whites black on the second self portrait.   Put the two portraits side by side.
   

10. 10.Simplification: Select a photo of an individual who is expressing an emotion.  Using a fine felt tip pen, flatten the image in black and white, eliminating all grey tones and detail.
    

11. 11.Viewpoint: With a magnifying glass in front of your face take a photograph of yourself. Take the photo over a number of times using a bird’s eye, worm’s eye and normal human point of view. Collage the photographs all together, some larger, some smaller and draw multi media on top.
    

12. 12.Fragmentation: Create an image of friendship reconstructed from reduced and enlarged xerox copies of your own portrait and those of your friends.