Exploring Fine-Point pen drawing techniques using Mythical Beasts and Medievil Borders as a starting point

Skills:

•Drawing Technique
•Hatching
•Cross-hatching
•Stipple
•Rarrk (a
traditional painting technique using fine cross-hatching and infill)
•Pattern and Line
•Drawing Skills
•Shading Skills
•Mounting and Framing
 
Year
8/2D Art Elective/ Unit 3 / Drawing
Medievil Beast Illustration
Design Brief

Get ready to design and illustrate your own medieval beast… Will it be part animal, part human, part
mythical creature or monster? … Perhaps a little bit of each!

We will start by researching creatures found in the bestiary (a type of medieval encyclopedia), and
studying artists’ illustrations of animals and beasts. Brainstorming of design ideas will follow
with collage and sketch work in our visual diaries.

We will then consider how line can be used as a tool to create illusions of form and texture. Techniques
will be trialed and applied to a finished illustration of your beast in fine point pen.
A
background for your beast will be designed and created with reference to medieval landscape motifs.

Visual Art Diary Work Reqiurements:

•The title ‘Unit 3: Medieval Beast Illustration’

•Design Brief Pasted in

•Assessment Rubric pasted in

•Resource sheets pasted in and annotated

•Brainstorm – 1x collage and 2 x sketches, annotated

•Worksheets on Tone, Stipple, Hatching, Smudging, and Shading
to be completed and pasted in

•Background landscape design sketch

•Metacognition sheet

•Self evaluation sheet
Folio Piece

•A4 fine point pen illustration of your beast

•A3 medieval landscape (to be used as a background for your beast)
Assessment

All stages of this unit will be assessed as Outstanding, High, Medium or Low
according to the criteria
listed on the assessment rubric.

Download Assessment Rubric

Download Self Evaluation Sheet

Haileybury College
Suitable for Year 8