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Art & Design · Key Stage 2 · The School
A sketchbook is not a gallery
It is a workshop. It should contain failures, half-finished ideas, colour tests, torn-out scraps, notes and things that went wrong — because that is the evidence of thinking. A sketchbook full of neat finished drawings has been misunderstood, and at GCSE it scores badly for exactly that reason.
The same thing three ways
Draw one object three times: once in continuous line, once in tone only (no outlines), once in three minutes flat. The three drawings teach different things, and having all three on one page is worth more than a single careful drawing.
Annotation that earns its place
Not 'this is a shell'. Write what you were TRYING to do, what worked, what you would change: 'wanted the ridges to feel sharp — the 2B was too soft, try a harder pencil'. That sentence is worth marks and, more importantly, it is worth remembering.
Draw the same shoe three times on one page. (1) A two-minute CONTINUOUS LINE drawing without lifting the pencil — it will be wonky and full of life. (2) A ten-minute TONAL study with no outlines at all, only light and shadow. (3) A close-up of ONE detail, the lace hole or the worn heel, at four times life size. Annotate each with what you noticed. Three drawings, one object, and the third usually teaches most.