LESSON PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS
LINE
LINE ROBOTS
Lesson Objectives: Students will learn to draw a robot using different types of lines.
Time Required: 1 hour
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky, Throughgoing Line (available online)
Source: Deep Space Sparkle
Website: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/04/04/robot-line-drawing/
Materials:
12 x 18 white construction paper
Thin and Thick Black Sharpies
Presentation:
Discuss the different kinds of lines: straight, curvy, wavy, zigzag, etc. Show how cross-hatching (small tic-tac-toes) can add shading. Discuss the different lines Kandinsky uses in his work Throughgoing Line.
Procedure:
- Pass out the white paper. Write name on the back.
- Show students how to draw a robot step-by-step, beginning with the head. Continue on with a neck, body, arms, legs, and especially the “joints” connecting each body part together, like a real robot. Give lots of options so they can jump start their own imaginations and create a robot that looks like none other!
- Make sure the robot fills the entire page!
- Continue to add details to the robot utilizing all the types of lines the students can think of.
- Use crosshatching to add shading to one side of the arms and legs for realism.
- Mount and display.
