Indigenous Art style Animal Drawing

Due for next class  (October 15 or 16)

You are to get out your paper, pencil and eraser and draw a SALMON /TROUT HEAD using the traditional method that is taught in this video.  You need to scroll the video to about 3 minutes and 20 seconds where the artist will begin the Salmon/Trout head design:

Be sure to:

  1. Draw big – 1/2  the page – bigger than your hand!
  2. use an eraser
  3. keep your pencil lines sharp
  4. use symmetry to make both sides of a shape the same – draw one side, trace it, flip the trace and draw the other side
  5. Ovoids are thick at the top and thin at the bottom
  6. U-shapes taper to points at the outer edges
  7. Trigons are windows to the spirit world – leave them white