Drawing 

Time: A Period

• Monday 9-10:10 

• Wednesday 9-10:10

• Friday 9-10:10

Location: Andy Warhol

In this class you'll develop essential drawing skills using various mediums such as pencil, charcoal, pen, and ink.  We will delve into the fundamentals of line, perspective, value, space, shape, plane, texture, pattern, and design. Through a combination of structured assignments, quick creative warm-up activities, and imaginative exercises, you'll learn to draw with more confidence and greater spontaneity. This class is designed to inspire your creativity while strengthening your technical abilities. Evaluation will be based on your attendance and engagement, the completion of assignments and maintaining a personal sketchbook.

Course Objectives

• Expand visual and spoken vocabulary around drawing techniques to develop images with more sensitive, yet confident, decisions to find solutions in depicting subject matter.

• Practice and introduce foundational techniques that help artists to understand how they see or create images that feel more grounded in techniques of draftsmanship, so that they can practice drawing any type of subject matter with more success.

• Develop innovative processes that evolve each artist’s own skillset, interests, and own reference material by prompting the class to create entirely imagined and collaborative forms of making. 

• Uncover some of the history of drawing, its fluid and expansive definition, and allow it to inspire rigorous material inquiry by working together as a class to define what drawing is capable of through our images and conversations

Course Expectations

Evaluation will be based on your attendance and engagement, the completion of assignments, and maintaining a personal sketchbook. I ask that all students keep a document of your drawings from each class in the google drive, this will help you track your progress, build a portfolio from the class, and help with evaluation. Students will also be required to be active participants in class discussions by listening and offering their discoveries, opinions, and inquiries.  Collaboration is encouraged and often students work in small groups to join together on a few assignments and critiques.  Over the three trimesters, students touch upon many aspects of Art making, as the class is both a place for critical thinking and problem-solving but also one for joyous creativity and expression.

Behavior Expectations

• Arrive on time and be present

• Make consistent effort

• Participate in critiques/discussions

• Engage with the assignments given

• Be yourself and be kind 

• Ask for help! 

Cell phones can be used to listen to music on headphones but consistent dipping into social media or using it as a distraction from work or in restroom breaks will limit one's phone privileges. (we will discuss using phones as a way to draw from reference photos on the first day)

Headphones are to be turned down or have one ear exposed so that you can hear instruction that happens passively while you work. There will be many instances where it is okay to work independently; these are times where this rule won't apply.

Evaluation for Credit

• Projects are turned in on time and show progress and effort

• A minimum of 75% attendance is required 

(30 minutes late= an absence. Late minutes from breaks or at the start of class over the course of the trimester will add up to an

absence)

• Participation in discussions and critiques both as a class, in small groups and individually.

• Cleaning up and being responsible with tools and materials as well as respecting all student work