Maharashtra HSC Drawing case studies
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Maharashtra HSC Drawing is a Std XII elective under the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, taken by students heading into fine art, applied art, design, architecture, animation, illustration or art education, and by those who simply want a studio subject on their Higher Secondary certificate. It is part theory, part studio. The Maharashtra HSC Drawing case studies are 5 cases and about 3,468 words.
1Still Life in Charcoal: Correcting Form Before Tone
A candidate sets up a still life on a low table: a brass lota, a plaster cube, two onions, and a folded cotton cloth. The light is a single 60 W bulb clamped 45° above and left of the objects; the exam sheet is 30 × 40 cm cartridge paper and the medium is charcoal.
790 words, about 4 min2Two-Point Street Corner with Vanishing Points off the Sheet
An examinee sketches a two-point view of a corner shop from the pavement. The building corner is 3 m away, the eye level is 1.5 m, and the two vanishing points fall far outside the 30 × 42 cm sheet.
741 words, about 4 min3Poster Colour Scheme with Four Tubes and Two Media
An HSC candidate designs a 25 × 35 cm poster for a school 'Tree Plantation Week' using gouache and transparent watercolour. The brief limits the palette to four tubes-ultramarine blue, lemon yellow, vermilion, and burnt sienna-plus white.
676 words, about 3 min4Memory Composition: Head-Load, Weight, and Horizon
During a 3-hour memory-drawing paper, a candidate must compose 'Farmers carrying produce to market at dawn' from imagination. In the 10-minute rough, the main farmer is 8 head-units tall but the head is drawn as one-fifth of the body; the figure leans backward though the basket is a 25 kg head-load; both feet are flat and parallel; the arms are straight sticks; the second farmer in the background is the same size as the foreground farmer; and the horizon is at the main farmer's waist.
636 words, about 3 min5Gallery Label: Correcting Terms across Three Indian Traditions
An examinee prepares a 300-word gallery label for a school exhibition with three reproductions: a Mughal court miniature (c. 17th century), a Company-school oil portrait, and a Warli ritual wall painting.
625 words, about 3 min