Mark Making Exercise

Students responded to descriptive words and
phrases (e.g. big black triangle). This was to
encourage ways of making marks and to think
how these might be applied to drawing a figure.

It challenged students to think more deeply
about what they are looking for when making
an observational figure drawing.

They were encouraged to move beyond a filled-in
outline as most had tended to do initially.


Charcoal with coloured chalk. A2 sheets.