- Perspective
Students will be able to demonstrate technical accuracy when documenting three dimensional structures on a two dimensional picture plane.
- Personal Still Life
Students will be able to demonstrate technical accuracy through observational drawing.
- Paper Bag Narrative Self Portrait
Create a dynamic narrative value drawing of a self-portrait using a paper bag as a stand-in character for yourself.
- Paper Bag and Egg
Students learn the basics of accurate rendering and shading
- No Marks
Students research and explore non traditional mark making.
- Modified Contour Line Self Portrait
Students demonstrate ability to draw from observation while using continuous contour to describe form.
- Mark Making
An exploration of intuitive and planned mark making.
- Legs, Legs, Legs
Students will demonstrate an understand of value and technical proficiency through black and white conté.
- Isomorphology
Students explore line and pattern through a larger scale drawing.
- Interior / Exterior
Students create a composition based on the idea of contrasting an object’s interior contents with its exterior shell.
- Interior Space Study
Exploration of interior perspectives.
- Ink Contours
Students explore value through ink and contour drawings.
- Group Value Drawing
Each student explores value through a portion of an image. Towards the end of class the portions are combined to create one large image.
- Gesture Drawing
Introduction to basic gesture drawings where students learn to capture basic form.
- Fabric Drawing
Students focus on movement, form, value and contrast through fabric drawing.
- Exploring Process, Composition & Abstraction
Students will disassemble and reasemble a previously created drawing to create a new composition.
- Exploring Open & Closed Form in Composition
Students explore scale and space through open and closed form contour drawings.
- Explore
Explore a theme in 20 drawings through 1’x1’ drawings of a theme of your choice, done from observation.
- Epic Still Life
Students draw a still life from multiple angles to create a panoramic rendering.
- Drawing with the Senses
e sense of touch, through exploring the variety of pressures applied to drawing tools.
- Contours
Introduction to contour drawings through the use of studio tools.
- Combination
Students create one large drawing through the combination of numerous source materials and drawing media.
- Collaged Space
Create a complex composition that references and re-configures macro and micro elements.
- 5 Media, 5 Drawings, 5 Toys
An end of semester exploration of 5 toys through 5 different drawing materials.
- 2 Focal Points
Students complete 2 drawings with varying focal points.