Elderly Man Drawing Exercise 

For this in class drawing exercise we focused on a photograph of an elderly man for each of the techniques. 

For the first drawing we had about 10 minutes to draw the man exactly how we saw him. 

For second drawing we flipped the picture so the man was upside down. Then we drew focusing on the big shapes and recording carefully what we saw. 

The next technique we were only allowed to use curved lines in our drawing. 

For the following techniques we repeated the same kind of drawing as the one above but with only straight lines in our drawing. 

The next two drawings were timed drawings. We could only draw when the instructor said the key word, in this case it was "potato." When he finished the word we would have to stop drawing. We repeated it a second time but the time lengthened to two "potatoes". 

For our final drawing we focused on really pressing super hard with our pencils. This made it difficult to make curved lines. 

These specific techniques helped us understand the power of lines in expressionism. For example the curved lines only made the elderly man look gentle and kind. Where in contrast to the straight lines and darker lines could make the man look more menacing and mean.