Basic skills of the free hand drawing as a means of expressing perceptions, ideas and image. Exercises are intended to develop the student?s sense of abstraction through line drawings, and sense of volume through surface treatment; such as textures and tonal values. Exercises include both fast sketches and slow drawings of variety of objects and environments; architectural, exterior, interior and natural. The course also includes colored sketching.
This course teaches the fundamentals of drawing including materials, methods, form and composition. Students work on a variety of paper sizes and with graphite, ink, and charcoal. Beginning exercises concentrate on still life and interiors, and then move to landscape and the human figure. Students start with executing simple exercises, and, with a fast and logical progression, move on to more complex and difficult assignments.