ART 222: Drawing: Advanced

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Class Program

Art

Credits

Clinical Hours None

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

090902

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities with Performance

Description

Advanced study of the theory and practice of drawing. Emphasis on the development of individual approaches to form and media.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

ART 113

Course Learning Outcomes

Display an advanced application of the principles of visual measuring and proportioning, including regular grid systems and variable sighting procedures.

Apply the principles of light and shadow, including light-shadow organizations on basic and complex volumes, and on various textural and material surfaces in an advanced way.

Show advanced application of the geometric principles of perspective, including orthographic foreshortening and vanishing point systems.

Demonstrate advanced development of studio skills with traditional drawing media and processes (including pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, pen & ink).

Utilize their understanding of arts and developments of drawing in the history of art in their drawing projects.

Use abstraction and content in drawings.

Create a cohesive body of work, along with related documentation and written materials.

Core Topics

Advanced level work continuing the topics explored in Art 113, including:

Measure and proportion, including:
- Regular measure processes (natural and man-made subject on 4x4 grid)
- Variable measure processes (symmetrical and asymmetrical subject)
- Active and passive shapes (natural and man-made subject)
Light and shadow, including:
- Chiaroscuro on simple volumes.
- Chiaroscuro on complex volumes
- Textures and material surfaces (textured, metallic and transparent subjects)
- Indirect light and tenebroso (indirect light on volumes and tenebroso light on volumes)
Foreshortening and perspective, including:
- Foreshortening of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional subjects
- Vanishing point perspective of 1-point perspective subjects and 2-point perspective subjects
Emphasis on the development of individual approaches to form and media.
Advanced sensibilities of abstraction and content in Drawing.
Completion of a body of work and complementary documentation and written materials.