AP Art and Design Drawing Portfolio

This is a course designed to offer advanced drawing students the time and structure to complete a drawing portfolio following the guidelines for submission to the AP Collegeboard. Students will utilize acquired skills and conceptual understandings from previous drawing courses to produce a body of work reflecting their ideas driven from their inquiry process. This course is student driven while in collaboration and guidance of the course instructor.


The AP Art & Design Drawing portfolio exam contains two sections. The Sustained Investigation section requires an inquiry-guided investigation through practice, experimentation, and revision. For the Selected Works section, work is expected to demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas. Both sections of the portfolio require articulation of ideas through writing and documentation of process