1. Techniques & Training!
Practice Assignments – Complete in your sketchbook
1.Choose 3 of the 6 techniques to practice in 3” x 5” boxes.
(You create these boxes with ruler!)
1. Blobs
4. Star
2. Checkerboard
3. Tunnel
5. Cuboid
6. Hellocopter

2. Technique 1. Op Art Shading Blobs

3. Technique 1:
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Op Art Shading Blobs

4. Op Art Shading Blobs
• Use black colored
pencil.
• Draw upward curves
above the middle
wave.
• Draw downward
curves below the
middle wave.
• Complete the entire
section.

5. Op Art Shading Blobs
5. Complete the entire design.
Erase the "across" wave.

6. Op Art Shading Blobs
• Pick a group of colors
you feel work well
together.
• Press harder in the
corners... and as you
get near the top of
each bump get lighter
and lighter.

7. Op Art Shading Blobs

8. Op Art Shading Blobs

9. Technique 2:
Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a colored pencil.
4. Color in the whole
picture with alternating
colors.

10. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.

11. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.

12. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.

13. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.

14. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.

15. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.

16. Technique 3: TUNNEL

17. TUNNEL – STEP 2

18. TUNNEL – STEP 3

19. TUNNEL – STEPS 4 & 5

20. TUNNEL – STEP 6
colored pencil

21. TUNNEL – STEP 7

22. TUNNEL – FINAL STEP
*SHADE : Darker in center

23. Technique 4: Star ( Steps 1- 5)
• In the center of the page,
draw a 4 inch vertical (up
and down) line.
•
Now draw a 4 inch
horizontal line (side to
side).
• VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=tESDVnNUAng&feature=related

24. Step 2
• Make a small
mark at each 1/4
inch measurement
across the length
of each line
starting where the
lines cross.

25. Step 3
• From the top of the
vertical line and
going to the left,
draw a straight line
down to the mark
closest to the center
on the horizontal
line

26. Step 4
• Move down the
vertical (up and
down) line to the
next mark.
• Draw a line to the
second mark
moving away
from the vertical
line

27. Step 5:
Lighter in center, darker around edges

28. Technique 5: Cuboid

29. Cuboid

30. Cuboid
8. Add colored pencil
and shading.
-Lighter in front
-Darker towards back.

31. Technique 6: Hellocopter