Imagining Your Art

In this course, we will explore fundamentals in drawing to help guide our application and enhance our technical skills and imagination. We will explore visual tools such as linear perspective, structural drawing, composition, measurement, and light logic. We will cover both black and white and color media. With the aid of a still life, we will investigate the tools and techniques used in observational rendering. Through demonstration, class exercises, and critiques, we explore concepts including contour line, cross contour, modeling, uses of marks to show form and space, perspective, scale and measurement, and positive/negative space. The second phase of drawings will challenge us to use various types of mark making in constructing forms. A step-by-step process will be introduced and used in this course supported by lectures and demonstrations. We will also emphasize current trends in art such as concept art, illustrations, and comics, which will help enable us learn to draw humans and animals, understanding the importance of imagination, creativity, expression, and presentation. In-class critiques will help us develop a more informed vocabulary on visual art.