Drawing class improves students skills with pencil. The class builds off the skills learned in General Art. Emphasis on Contrast, Shading, and Composition dominate the first half of the quarter. Then students explore their creativity and move into other drawing media like crayons, chalk and oil pastels
Topics covered are:
Line weight
Shading
Monochrome still life
Representing color with shades of black and white
Linear Perspective
Biomechanical combinations
Faces and facial proportions
Caracature
Cartooning
Shading and blending with Crayon
Chalk and Charcoal on colored paper
Chalk pastels
Oil Pastel
Colored pencils
Problem solving with drawing media