The main objective of this course is to teach you the skills that are needed to complete a representational drawing. Work done in this style is highly realistic and polished, with a strong illusion of light, form, and space. Sometimes the illusion of light and form in these drawings is so convincing that the renderings appear to be three-dimensional entities rather than flat two-dimensional abstractions of the subjects. Work is typically done entirely from life rather than from photographic references or imagination to allow for a more thorough understanding and rendering of the subjects.

Art schools and ateliers place great emphasis upon the mastery of drawing skills before students are allowed to take upper-division art courses. This is because the skills needed to complete a competent drawing -- control of line, shape, perspective, and development of value for light, form, and space – are the foundation for all visual arts disciplines, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, and computer animation. Without the foundation provided by drawing, success in more advanced courses is extremely limited.

The course content for ART1300C assumes that most students have not had an extensive background in drawing before beginning this class. You will begin by becoming more comfortable with the drawing process, which involves looking closely at an object and transferring what you see onto the page. The intention is to develop a level of confidence that will allow you to look more at the object/space and less at the paper. This will involve several exercises in proportion which will be completed exclusively with line.

As the term progresses, your drawing vocabulary will be expanded to include the use of linear perspective, modeling, line weight, and other methods of mark making that will become essential in the analysis of forms in space.

The following represent the skills that you will work on in this course:
• Developing accurate proportional relationships.
• Planning the drawing for the page.
• Line control.
• Development of form and space using isometric and linear perspective.
• Using value to illustrate volumetric form and planar form.
• Rendering forms of varying complexity for light and shadow.

Be forewarned: if you are looking for an easy course, this is not it. However, if you are interested in learning how to draw you are in the right place.

The main objective of this course is to teach you the skills that are needed to complete a representational drawing. Work done in this style is highly realistic and polished, with a strong illusion of light, form, and space. Sometimes the illusion of light and form in these drawings is so convincing that the renderings appear to be three-dimensional entities rather than flat two-dimensional abstractions of the subjects. Work is typically done entirely from life rather than from photographic references or imagination to allow for a more thorough understanding and rendering of the subjects.

Art schools and ateliers place great emphasis upon the mastery of drawing skills before students are allowed to take upper-division art courses. This is because the skills needed to complete a competent drawing -- control of line, shape, perspective, and development of value for light, form, and space – are the foundation for all visual arts disciplines, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, and computer animation. Without the foundation provided by drawing, success in more advanced courses is extremely limited.

The course content for ART1300C assumes that most students have not had an extensive background in drawing before beginning this class. You will begin by becoming more comfortable with the drawing process, which involves looking closely at an object and transferring what you see onto the page. The intention is to develop a level of confidence that will allow you to look more at the object/space and less at the paper. This will involve several exercises in proportion which will be completed exclusively with line.

As the term progresses, your drawing vocabulary will be expanded to include the use of linear perspective, modeling, line weight, and other methods of mark making that will become essential in the analysis of forms in space.

The following represent the skills that you will work on in this course:
• Developing accurate proportional relationships.
• Planning the drawing for the page.
• Line control.
• Development of form and space using isometric and linear perspective.
• Using value to illustrate volumetric form and planar form.
• Rendering forms of varying complexity for light and shadow.

Be forewarned: if you are looking for an easy course, this is not it. However, if you are interested in learning how to draw you are in the right place.

The main objective of this course is to teach you the skills that are needed to complete a representational drawing. Work done in this style is highly realistic and polished, with a strong illusion of light, form, and space. Sometimes the illusion of light and form in these drawings is so convincing that the renderings appear to be three-dimensional entities rather than flat two-dimensional abstractions of the subjects. Work is typically done entirely from life rather than from photographic references or imagination to allow for a more thorough understanding and rendering of the subjects.

Art schools and ateliers place great emphasis upon the mastery of drawing skills before students are allowed to take upper-division art courses. This is because the skills needed to complete a competent drawing -- control of line, shape, perspective, and development of value for light, form, and space – are the foundation for all visual arts disciplines, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, and computer animation. Without the foundation provided by drawing, success in more advanced courses is extremely limited.

The course content for ART1300C assumes that most students have not had an extensive background in drawing before beginning this class. You will begin by becoming more comfortable with the drawing process, which involves looking closely at an object and transferring what you see onto the page. The intention is to develop a level of confidence that will allow you to look more at the object/space and less at the paper. This will involve several exercises in proportion which will be completed exclusively with line.

As the term progresses, your drawing vocabulary will be expanded to include the use of linear perspective, modeling, line weight, and other methods of mark making that will become essential in the analysis of forms in space.

The following represent the skills that you will work on in this course:
• Developing accurate proportional relationships.
• Planning the drawing for the page.
• Line control.
• Development of form and space using isometric and linear perspective.
• Using value to illustrate volumetric form and planar form.
• Rendering forms of varying complexity for light and shadow.

Be forewarned: if you are looking for an easy course, this is not it. However, if you are interested in learning how to draw you are in the right place.

The main objective of this course is to teach you the skills that you need to complete a representational drawing of a complex subject. Work done in this style is highly realistic and polished, with a strong illusion of light, form, and space. Sometimes the illusion of light and form in these drawings is so convincing that the renderings appear to be three-dimensional entities rather than flat two-dimensional abstractions of the subject. Work is typically done entirely from life rather than from photographic references or imagination to allow for a more thorough understanding and rendering of the forms.

Art schools and ateliers place great emphasis upon the mastery of academic drawing skills before students are allowed to take upper-division art courses. This is because the skills needed to complete a competent academic drawing -- mastery of line, shape, perspective, and development of value for light, form, and space – are the foundation for all of the various visual art disciplines, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, and computer animation. Without the foundation provided by drawing, success in more advanced courses is extremely limited.

The course content for ART1330C assumes that students have acquired basic academic drawing skills in Drawing I before beginning this class. This course is an in-depth study of drawing with an emphasis upon classical drawing done from live nude or draped models, the skeleton, plaster casts, or other natural subjects. Projects will increase in complexity throughout the semester, starting with drawings from simple subjects, moving next to drawing from plaster casts, and culminating in working from live models. Basic human anatomy will also be discussed as the semester progresses.

The following represent the skills that you will work on in this course:
• Developing accurate proportional relationships.
• Planning the drawing for the page.
• Line and edge control.
• Understanding perspective and foreshortening of the subject through planar analysis.
• Quickly and accurately blocking in the subject, establishing accurate proportional relationships and lighting.
• Rendering forms of varying complexity for light.
• Shading forms for planes or volumetric form to increase clarity within shadows or washed-out highlights.

Be forewarned: if you are looking for an easy course, this is not it. However, if you are interested in learning how to draw you are in the right place.

This course will involve drawing from nude male and female models. There are no alternative assignments for these drawings. If you cannot complete this work you must drop the course.