Lego Block Drawing

Minnesota 9-12 Visual Art Standards
Used in this Lesson

  • 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of the arts area.
  • 1A. Analyze how the elements of visual art including color, line, shape, value, form, texture and space; and principles such as repetition, pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are combined to communicate meaning in the creation of, presentation of, or response to visual artworks.

  • 1b. Evaluate how the principles of visual art such as repetition, pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the creation of, presentation of, or response to visual artworks.

  • 2. Demonstrate knowledge and use of the technical skills of the art form, integrating technology when applicable.
  • 2a. Integrate the characteristics of the tools, materials and techniques of a selected media in original artworks to support artistic purposes.

  • 3. Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas.
  • 3a. Analyze how visual artworks influence and are influenced by personal, social, cultural or historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

  • 3b. Synthesize and express an individual view of the meaning and functions of visual art.
  • 4. Create or make in a variety of contexts in the arts area using the artistic foundations.
  • 4a. Create a single, complex artwork or multiple artworks to express ideas.

  • 4b. Revise artworks based on artistic intent and using multiple sources of critique and feedback.

  • 6. Respond to or critique a variety of creations or performances using the artistic foundations.
  • 6a. Analyze, interpret and evaluate works of visual art by applying self-selected criteria within the traditions of the art form.

  • 6b. Justify choices of self-selected criteria based on knowledge of how criteria affects criticism.

    • Additional Tie-ins

  • Structure
  • Inspiration
  • Still Life
    • Students use a box of lego blocks to build a sculpture as inspiration. After the sculpture is built, they can draw it as a still life, or draw it in context, or use it as inspiration to make a more detailed drawing/painting.

    For example, a student might build a car. They could draw the lego-built car as accurately as possible using it as a still-life. Or they could draw the lego car in a scene with houses and a street and people. Or they might choose to use that sculpture as inspiration to draw a specific car as nicely as they can.

    Evaluation
    3 points -- Sturdy Lego Sculpture (good structure)
    3 points -- Understandable images inspired by the Lego Sculpture.
    3 points -- Quality of the finished drawing/painting. (Shading, Perspective, Contrast, Proportion, etc.)

    10 points total.

    Image and sculpture below by Claire V.

    Image and sculpture below by Sophia H.

    Drawing below was made using Dakota B.'s sculpture of an ATAT from Star wars.

    A student could use the Lego creation as inspiration to make something more detailed like the image below by Dominic S.