Course Description: This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic principles of drawing. Students are taught to see the three-dimensional world around them and to capture that world in two-dimensions. Projects are designed to increase the students’ technical and perceptual ability within a variety of approaches. The first half of the semester focuses on the use of line to address composition, creating space, proportion, accuracy in “seeing” and mastery of materials such as pencil and charcoal. The second half of the semester focuses on the use of value, gesture and mark-making to address composition, the creation of space, accuracy in “seeing” and additionally introduces work with pen and ink.
Objectives: Master the fundamental skills of observational drawing, including accuracy in perceptual ability as demonstrated in the drawings, as well as: a sensitivity to line, an understanding of compositional strategies, a sensitivity to value, gesture, and mark-making. You should be comfortable working in the materials of pencil, charcoal and pen and ink, and be able to work equally well in line and value. In addition, you should have developed a working vocabulary with which to assess your own work and the work of others.
- Teacher: Vanessa Gully Santiago