ARTS 102 - Drawing

3 Credits: (2 lecture, 2 lab)

Course Description
This course is designed for all students interested in bettering their drawing skills. Classes are geared to the needs of each student individually.

Text
Rockman, Deborah A. Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing from Observation. 3rd ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Print.

Objectives
The student will be able to:

A. Show ability to use different methods of perception.

B. Demonstrate greater proficiency with the use of different drawing medium, e.g. pencil, ink, chalk.

C. Demonstrate ability to employ different types of perspective, shading, texture, as well as line and color in a composition.

D. Demonstrate ability to employ effectively the elements of composition in a drawing: line, shape, value, and balance.

Content
Drawing projects include experience in gesture, contour, and negative space drawing. Techniques in modeling techniques, creation of texture, and use of color will be

included as well as work with various media. Subject matter for drawings will include

figures, still life, and landscapes.

Student Evaluation
Each student is evaluated on the basis of the several drawings he has produced during the term.

Bibliography
Auvil, Kenneth W. Perspective Drawing. Mountain View: 1990.

Drawing, Its Many Secrets. New York: Master Vision, 1984.

Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Artist Within. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986.

Hutter, Heribert. Drawing: History and Technique. tr. J. S. Thomson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1968.

Kautzky, Theodore. The Ted Kautzky Pencil Book. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold,

1979.

Stephenson, George E. Drawing for Product Planning. Peoria: C. A. Bennett, Company, 1970.

Wadsworth, Atheneum. American Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Hudson Hills

Press, 1987.

Wood, Dan. The Craft of Drawing. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.