ARTS 040 - Visual Concepts and Processes: Drawing

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU

Course will initiate practice and appreciation of graphic expression, with an emphasis on developing a conceptual understanding of traditional and contemporary pictorial concerns beginning with traditional observation drawing to sharpen perceptual awareness. Diagrammatic line and principles of perspective will be presented as spatial and compositional concepts. Assignments: ability to graphically locate objects on a ground plane; use of line, value, shape, texture as a descriptive design vocabulary; the human figure as dynamic form; engaging representation and abstraction as responsive narrative. Enrollment Limit: 15.
Instructor: D. Harvey