Drawing Assignment: Hair Raising Experience 

"A line must be thought of as a place where something is going on." Stuart Davis

"Drawing is taking a line for a walk." Paul Klee

1. Consider variety in lines. (Straight, squiggly, spiraling, curvy, zigzag, thick, thin, wavy, etc.)

2. Review how repeating lines forms patterns, some very interesting.

3. Draw a head full of wild and crazy hair lines:

     a. Use pencil first. On a 9x12" sheet of white drawing paper, make a U'shaped curve for the face. Or, draw an inverted "U-curve at the top of the paper as a bald head of a grizzly character with a long beard! Outline the U in pen. Put your pencil away.

     b. Draw in black marker only now. From the forehead upward, (or chin for the beard downward) and outward, create an outrageous hairstyle. Allow patterns to form by repeating a wacky line at least 6 times before moving on to another idea. Scribbling is lazy imagination use. Too much overlapping of lines doesn't create patterns that look like hair.

     c. Add the face anytime you see your character coming to life.

     d. Don't stop with the patterns until the page is full!

( lesson by Ted Barlag, from Arts and Activities, March1997)