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Art 24 - Beginning drawing
Course Description
Elements and principles of drawing. Studio practice emphasizing line, shape and light-dark used in visual art and design.
Exit Skills
By the end of the semester, students will have the ability to:
Measure
- seeing visual relationships that help describe scale and proportion
- with an understanding of how size and scale work within pictorial space
- with an ability to translate these relationships from 3D into 2D
Create Strong Composition
- using spatial relationships in composition
- understanding interdependency of forms and relation of form to picture plane
- using all the elements of drawing
- using perspective accurately in any drawing
Compose with Line
- with awareness of the variety of line applications
- to describe form, volume, weight and value
- to see and relate interdependency between forms in space.
- to sensitively convey the possibilities of expressive line to enhance content
Use Perspective
- with awareness of the visual world using appropriate perspective applications
- 1 and 2pt. interior spaces, exterior landscape.
- Basic understanding of the structure of an ellipse (axis, eye-level changes)
- understanding the basics of foreshortened form
Compose with Value
- Basic control over light and dark using both wet (ink, water and turp) and dry(charcoal, pencil, conte) media to develop value and create illusion of volume.
- Basic discernment of the "qualities" of tonal drawing (cross-contour, hatching,
- erasure, ordered and un-ordered marks.)
- Discernment of contrast, and the value range of each medium presented.
- Discernment of "light on form" and how to articulate the phenomena
- General organization with value in every composition
- Introduction of the use of value expressively to enhance content.
Faculty Pages:
Jason Adkins
Theta Belcher
Christine Canepa
Don Feasel
Erik Friedman