Lesson 2: Design, Pattern, and
Color
Suggested Time: 60
minutes
Overview
In workshop style, students will experiment with shapes and color,
object drawing (using examples from architecture and engineering),
figure drawing, and drawing action and mood— superhero style! This
lesson builds drawing and diagramming skills while appealing to a wide
variety of ages, backgrounds, and skill levels.
Vocabulary
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Diagram
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Blueprint
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Design
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Perspective
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Symmetry
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Asymmetry
Objectives
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Students will gain practical skills that are used in a wide variety of
design-based fields.
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Students will learn and explore at their own pace while also engaging
in challenging group work.
Next Generation Science
Standards
- MS-PS-1, MS-PS-4. Developing and Using Models.
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MS-PS1-3. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information.
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ETS1.A, B, and C. Defining and Delimiting Design Problems, Developing
Possible Solutions, and Optimizing the Design Solution.
Required Project
Materials
- Sketch paper
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Color pencils
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Sewing kits (for optional sewing group)
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Wide variety of fabric from thrift stores and/or Jo-ann Fabrics’
discount fabric and remnants bin (for optional sewing group)
Multimedia Resources
- Outside the Lines: an Artist’s Coloring Book for Giant
Imaginations . Souris Hong- Porretta.
http://amzn.com/0399162089
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Figure it Out! The Beginner’s Guide to Drawing People .
Christopher Hart. http:// amzn.com/1933027800
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Draw Comic Book Action . Lee Garbett.
http://amzn.com/1440308136
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Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and Technique . Anna Kiper.
http://amzn.com/ 0715336185 (one book per student)
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Designer Doodles: Over 100 Designs to Complete and Create .
Nellie Ryan. http:// amzn.com/0762437618 (one book per student)
Optional Multimedia
Resources
- How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from
Your Imagination . Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling.
http://amzn.com/1933492732
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Sewing Basics: All You Need to Know About Machine and Hand
Sewing . Sandra Bardwell.
http://amzn.com/1584799471
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How to Use, Adapt, and Design Sewing Patterns: from Store-Bought
Patterns to Drafting Your Own: a Complete Guide to Fashion Sewing with
Confidence . Lee Hollahan. http:// amzn.com/0764144251
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Design for Kids . Peter Exley, Sharon Exley, Daniel Vieyra.
http://amzn.com/1864701803
Note: this book can only be bought from third party sellers at a
reasonable price.
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Playground Design (Architecture in Focus) . Michelle Galindo.
http://amzn.com/ 3037681098 Note: due to its price, I
would recommend purchase of one copy of this book for use in the
classroom.
Before the Lesson/ Background
Information
- Print several engineering and architectural drawings from online, or
use How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments
from Your Imagination . This is an advanced book featuring fun
engineering drawings, as well as information on perspective and depth.
It can be used throughout the course to provide interesting homework
assignments and group activities.
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An architecture group could also be formed around Design for
Kids and Playground Design (Architecture in Focus).
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Make copies of pictures in Outside the Lines: an Artist’s
Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations and the drawing books as
necessary to make sure that everyone has access to them and can work
on their own within groups.
The Lesson
Part 1: Design, Pattern, and Color Workshops* (50
mins)
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Separate the students into three groups. Each group will work on a
different skill—coloring (practicing with various shapes and
patterns); drawing human figures (first, rudimentary figures, then
figures in action); and copying and playing with architectural and
engineering designs.
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The coloring group will use Outside the Lines: an Artist’s
Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations. The drawing group will use
Figure it Out! The Beginner’s Guide to Drawing People and
progress to Draw Comic Book Action with each individual working
at their own pace. The object design group will work with the drawings
you’ve provided, the architecture books, and/or How to Draw:
Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination.
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Individual students should work on their own, incorporating their own
homework into their designs, but consulting with and learning from
other group members as well.
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Every twenty minutes, groups should rotate tasks, so that everyone
gains practice in each area.
*If you have many students, or students that are particularly
interested in textile design, you can have another group work on making
a small quilt. They will cut out squares of fabric and hand-sew them
together. This is another way of experimenting with pattern and color
combinations.
Part 2: Discussion (10
mins)
- Reserve a few minutes at the end of class to discuss the importance of
working with drawings, diagrams, patterns, and colors in design
fields. How are these skills used in engineering? In architecture? In
fine arts?
Homework Due Next Class
- Work through a section of Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and
Technique and Designer Doodles: Over 100 Designs to Complete
and Create .
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Tell students to bring their homework from Fashion Illustration:
Inspiration and Technique and Designer Doodles: Over 100
Designs to Complete and Create to the next class session.
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