This course immerses students in a study of the human figure through projects that investigate both its form and its capacity to carry meaning within various cultural contexts. Perceptual observation, analytical structure, anatomy, motion, relationship to object, space, and other will be explored through a variety of techniques used to explore the body as the site for messages……Continue Reading Drawing the Figure
In this course, drawing is the root of all making. Students will expand their use of traditional imaging materials and methods by utilizing the hands-on and digital technology within the Making Center. This broadening of two-dimensional creation will come from the use of etching and mono printing presses, reliefs in clay, laser cutting, and graphic plotting….Continue Reading Drawing through the Making Center
In this class students learn analytical, and drawing techniques for representing abstract concepts, physical space and objects. The focus of this course is on the use of representation within design practice. Students work individually on projects to develop strength in a variety of media that will be applicable to their core studio work in the first year and within their discipline…….Continue Reading Drawing: Design Drawing
This course continues the drawing experience with an intensive investigation of the figure. Students focus initially on mark making and the application of various tools and techniques and work on projects that explore movement, gesture, shape, draped cloth, and an awareness of proportion….Continue Reading Drawing: Form & Fashion
In this course students will learn how to use the basic elements of design – line, shape, value and color on a variety of surfaces as communication tools to explain complex systems. The design activities will explore how to focus the contents of the message on an audience through a variety of forms. This would include service images, icons, mind maps, mood boards……Continue Reading Dynamic Drawing
This course is devoted to building your skills in observational drawing from life. Working directly from models, still-life arrangements and on-location, emphasis will be placed on recording firsthand visual experience using a range of drawing materials: pencil, pen, charcoal and others. Projects will focus on the problems of seeing and describing fully realized forms situated in space……Continue Reading Observational Drawing