ART 132 Introduction to Drawing 2

Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Provides lectures, demonstrations, and continued individualized training in objective drawing begun in ART 131, and introduces subjective drawing. Emphasizes composition, and introduces additional drawing media and image sources. Discusses art concepts, vocabulary, and skills to critically analyze drawings.

Prerequisite: Placement in WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher); and completion of ART 131; or consent of instructor based on portfolio review. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Student Learning Outcomes:

Execute drawings with intention, gracefulness, and accuracy.
Exhibit a solid knowledge of analytical and classical techniques in the establishment of accurate shape, proportion, and spatial relationships.
Utilize effective figure/ground integration through techniques such as contour line variation, implied line, and chiaroscuro to create dynamic drawings.
Design/execute drawings that exhibit an awareness of composition, as it applies to organizational principles and/or to meaning (form/content).
Employ the differences between objective and subjective drawing to convey meaning or for aesthetic purposes.
Apply creativity in generating ideas, and in the use of media and drawing approaches, in support of conceptually based assignments.
Apply skill in the use of drawing materials and a focused concentration in the production of assignments.
Use relevant terminology to critically analyze works of art when engaged in diagnosing projects in process or during critiques.
Contribute to visual/verbal/written analysis of drawing and as a member of a learning team.
Recognize drawing as a part of visual literacy, which exists within a historical and contemporary art continuum.

Content Outline

Composition:
- Definition and principles
- Variable compositional elements to consider
- Using viewfinder to assist in composition
- General guidelines
  - Impact of negative/positive space
  - Impact of format
  - General placement concerns
  - Visual intent
  - Impact of viewpoint
- The Golden Section - armature of the rectangle
Developing Ideas and Drawing Approaches for Expression/Meaning
- Ideation: generating ideas
  - Divergent thinking (thinking outside the box)
  - Form/content
  - Making connections (synthesizing images/ideas)
  - Brainstorming
  - Sketchbook for maintaining ongoing investigation of visual ideas and phenomena
- Observational objective drawing versus subjective (interpretative) drawing
- Process as discovery
- Historical examples
Media: Introduction to Basic Characteristics and Application Techniques
- Traditional and nontraditional drawing media
  - Dry media
  - Wet media
  - Non-traditional media (optional)
- Traditional and nontraditional drawing surfaces and substrates
  - Paper
  - Non-traditional substrates (optional)
- Transfer techniques combined with drawing
Continued Technical Refinement of Essential Drawing Skills and Approaches to Drawing
- Methods of drawing
  - Contour line drawing
    - Contour drawing approach (a careful, descriptive line to establish specific shape, character, and detail)
    - Kinds of contour line drawing (line variation and sensitivity, flat line, cross-contour line)
  - Gesture line drawing
    - Gesture drawing approach (an active searching line to discover form, proportion, placement, relationship to the whole)
    - Kinds of gesture line drawing (process or exploratory lines, organization lines, structural lines, mark-making/visual texture)
  - Value drawing
    - Value drawing approaches (general to specific, additive or subtractive)
    - Value identification (scale, contrast)
    - The illusion of volume (light, highlight, shadow, core shadow, cast shadow)
    - Chiaroscuro
    - Figure/ground relationship
    - Applying value (continuous tone, hatching, stippling, mark-making, subtractive base tone)
  - Integration of multiple methods of drawing (see above)
- How to see/organize space (techniques to draw accurate three-dimensional observed forms on a two-dimensional surface)
  - Analytical techniques for spatial organization
    - Sighting and organizational lines to identify relative proportions
    - Sighting and organizational lines to identify angles and axis lines
    - Sighting and organizational lines to identify alignment between landmarks
    - Positive/negative shape to discern form and figure/ground relationships
    - Gesture technique to explore form and to establish spatial relationships
  - Classical techniques for spatial organization
    - Linear perspective
    - Atmospheric (aerial) perspective
    - Overlapping
    - Foreshortening
Continued Development of Skills: Diagnosing, Problem Solving, and Critiques
- Diagnosing problems in drawings
  - Traditional versus non-traditional drawings
  - Traditional value of unity versus disjunctive modernism
  - Style/expression/meaning
  - Completion concerns
  - Compositional problems
- Intentions vs. results
  - Discovering disparity
  - Descriptive feedback
  - Interpretive feedback
  - Written feedback
- Critiques
  - Individual critiques with instructor
  - Group critiques
    - Small group, in process critiques
    - Class critiques, in process, or of completed assignments
  - Written critiques/self-evaluations/analysis of assigned historical drawing examples