Systematically clarify ideas using drawing informed by established design practice
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This standard asks you to use drawing as a tool to develop and clarify your artistic ideas, using established artists' work as reference and inspiration. You'll create a series of drawings that show how your ideas develop, change, and improve over time, and you need to explain how you're learning from professional artists to inform your own work.
You create a series of drawings that clarifies your ideas, and you show awareness of established artists' work by referencing their techniques or approaches in your own drawings.
You go deeper by critically analyzing the artists you study, evaluating why certain approaches work, and demonstrating how those insights directly shape and extend the direction of your drawing series.
You critically examine your own previous work and the established practices you've studied, then regenerate your ideas by reworking concepts in new ways that show sophisticated understanding of how professional artists inform your artistic thinking.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.