Review your previous work making dark and light tones with crosshatched pen lines. Also look over your work concerning arranging various sized objects to fill a space and overlapping and interweaving light and dark shapes.

Go outdoors with your newsprint sketch paper folded into a pad, and do some pencil drawing studies of different kinds of buildings. Sketch one building for each sketch so that you can focus on it's detail and shape.

Look for tall buildings, low buildings, flat-topped buildings, and slope-roofed buildings. Study their shapes and proportions. Try to find building shapes that are not just box-shaped but that have some variations in their contours and levels, such as lean-tos, porches, split levels. Can you find buildings with any rounded shapes—such as curved roof lines, rounded silos, buildings with towers or steeples?

Once you've completed several sketches, scan five of your sketches and submit them to your teacher.

Review the rubric below to see how you will be graded on your assignment for this lesson.

	Superior 5 points	Average 3 points	Poor 1 point
Sketches	You provided five separate and complete sketches.	You provided at least three separate and complete sketches.	You provided at least 1 separate and complete sketch.
Variety	The buildings in your sketches are different sizes and interesting shapes.	The buildings in your sketches are slightly different sizes and shapes.	Buildings are similar sizes and/or shapes. It appears little attention was given to picking the subjects of your sketches.
Creativity	Several of the sketches show a unique technique or style. The sketches reflects an exceptional degree of creativity.	One or two of the sketches show an interesting technique or style. The sketches reflects creativity.	The sketches show basic techniques. The sketches do not show creativity.
Composition	The buildings in most of the sketches are viewed and sketched in a way that makes the sketches very eye catching.	The buildings in many of the sketches are viewed and sketched in a way that makes the sketches eye catching.	Buildings in the sketches do not appeal the viewer to draw in their attention . It appears little thought was given to sketches.