CLASSES: DRAWING

A sound knowledge of drawing is the foundation for success as a visual artist. Basic principles of drawing will be taught including line, light, shade and composition. We will work with vine charcoal and different grades of graphite as well as explore techniques and exercises that will help us gain a better understanding of how each material can be used. This is a fundamental course. No previous skills are required.

Skills Acquired:

• A firm understanding of gradation
• Seeing and interpreting proportion within a drawing
• Perspective as an artistic tool
  

Prerequisites: None

Further investigation into observation and accurately representing form in space. The interpretive aspect of drawing and experimentation with drawing media and technique will be explored. Project themes and still life, landscape, and interiors or exterior space in Graphite and Charcoal with an introduction to Color Pencil and Pastels.

Students will continue learning about:

• Spatial relationship
• Composition
• Value contrast, pattern and texture

Prerequisite: Drawing 1 OR Drawing Fundamentals

Portrait drawing is a course that is designed to help you improve your skills in drawing human faces and classical sculpture busts from observation. The course is divided into four categories, which include portrait gestures, head structure using the Reilly and Loomis methods, basic head anatomy, perspective of the face, portrait rendering with Light logic principles, Local Value of skin, and Value distribution. Throughout the course, you will learn and practice different drawing methods and techniques using various drawing materials such as graphite, black & white colored pencils, and charcoal. Additionally, you will have the option to complete a self-driven assignment that focuses on drawing a portrait from a photo. If you enjoy drawing the figure, this 8-week course that focuses on the portrait will be perfect for you.

Prerequisites: Drawing 1 AND Drawing 2 OR Beginner Figure Drawing

Portrait drawing is a course that is designed to help you improve your skills in drawing human faces and classical sculpture busts from observation. The course is divided into four categories, which include portrait gestures, head structure using the Reilly and Loomis methods, basic head anatomy, perspective of the face, portrait rendering with Light logic principles, Local Value of skin, and Value distribution. Throughout the course, you will learn and practice different drawing methods and techniques using various drawing materials such as graphite, black & white colored pencils, and charcoal. Additionally, you will have the option to complete a self-driven assignment that focuses on drawing a portrait from a photo. If you enjoy drawing the figure, this 8-week course that focuses on the portrait will be perfect for you.

Prerequisites: Portrait Drawing 1

In just 4 weeks, you can master the art of drawing the human figure with our comprehensive course. Our expertly designed curriculum emphasizes disciplined focus, visual accuracy, and the use of different media to bring your art to life. Throughout the course, you'll work on projects that challenge you to accurately represent the proportions and structure of the human form using a variety of advanced techniques. By introducing you to the skeletal and musculature systems, as well as surface anatomy, we'll provide a solid foundation for you to build upon in your future studies of drawing the human form.

Prerequisites: None

Master the art of drawing the human figure with our comprehensive course. Our expertly designed curriculum emphasizes disciplined focus, visual accuracy, and the use of different media to create life-like figure drawings. Throughout the course, students will work on projects that challenge them to accurately represent the proportions and structure of the human form using a variety of advanced techniques. By introducing the skeletal and musculature systems, as well as surface anatomy, the instructor provides a solid foundation for students to build upon in your future studies of drawing the human form.

Skills Acquired:

• Understand how to draw a gestural figure using the basic structural method
• Understand how to draw a figure’s structure using basic geometric forms
• Understand Basic Artistic Human Anatomy
• Understand how to render the figure with Light and Shadow

Prerequisites: Drawing Fundamentals OR Drawing 1 AND/OR Drawing 2

In just 4 weeks, students will continue mastering the art of drawing the human figure with our comprehensive course Figure Drawing 2. Our expertly designed curriculum emphasizes disciplined focus, visual accuracy, and the use of different media to bring your art to life. Throughout the course, you'll work on projects that challenge you to accurately represent the proportions and structure of the human form using a variety of advanced techniques including learning to draw the figure in color. Students will continue their understanding of the skeletal and musculature systems and surface anatomy; we'll provide a solid continuing foundation for you to build upon in your future studies of drawing the human form in color.

Prerequisites: Accelerated Beginner Figure Drawing OR Figure Drawing

Abstract Drawing 1 is an 8-week course that focuses on abstract and non-objective techniques, composition, and the fundamental elements of art and principles of design. Throughout the course, students will learn how to use thumbnail sketches to brainstorm their artwork's context, concept, technique, or style, and compose basic elements such as line, shape, form, texture, value, and space with imagination within a composition. Students will also learn how to simplify complex forms, shapes, or light to convey the essence of what they see onto paper in a composition or format. In each assignment, students will continue to explore the art fundamentals of composition, spatial relationship, value contrast, local value, light logic, value distribution, pattern, texture, and rendering, with a strong emphasis on imagination and creativity. If you are a creator who loves to create artwork with simple elements, this class is perfect for you!

Prerequisites: None

Pastel drawing is a course that is designed to help you improve your skills in drawing with the soft textural medium of pastel. Create atmospheric, light, and evocative drawings by learning composition, light logic, local value, and blending. Throughout the course, you will learn how to manipulate pastels with various tools and on many types of paper. If you enjoy drawing with color and being expressive, this course is for you!

Prerequisites: Drawing 1 OR Drawing 2 OR pre-approval by instructor before registration. Please contact the Office at 214.320.1275 for pre-approval.