Course Rationale:  The purpose of Drawing I is to provide each student with specific drawing media experiences and to build basic perceptual skills in terms of drawing from studio set-ups. The student will also gain basic knowledge of the elements of art: line, value, shape/volume, texture and color to lead to their deliberate manipulation for different types of spatial illusion, compositions, and expressive meaning.

Common Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: 

• Describe visual subjects through the use of accurate and sensitive observation.

• Generate authentically conceived drawings that demonstrate descriptive, expressive, and conceptual approaches.

• Utilize varied materials and techniques with informed aesthetic and conceptual strategies.

• Demonstrate an appropriate level of professional practice, including safety, craft and presentation.

• Observe and appreciate drawings and verbally express noteworthy strengths in 

composition and/or craft. 

• Relate drawing to useful design concepts, art history and contemporary artistic production.

• Develop skills worthy of confident presentation and spontaneous expression in client driven communication. 

ACC Specific Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: 

• Analyze visual information in terms of proportional relationships, spatial relationships, harmonizing lines, and basic geometric shapes in order to accurately depict objects and groupings of objects and their relationships to each other. 

• Use shading (line weight, gradient tonalities, cross contour, cross hatching and stippling) to efficiently create the illusion of volume, depth, and the natural way light embraces and describes form. 

• Describe texture and organic rhythms drawing from still life objects, landscapes, and personal observation. 

• Execute one and two point perspective drawings from real life observation. 

• Discuss drawing using a commonly understood terminology and preferential, stylistic description. 

• Have a working understanding of useful tools that increase efficiency and productivity depending on client preferences, desired outcomes, productivity demands, and temporal constraints.

• Present completed work in a professional manner. 

 [Optional:  Instructors may include section specific learning outcomes].

Related Reading Materials: 

    Drawing: A Studio Guide                Lou Bro

    The Natural Way To Draw                Kimon Nicolades

    Dynamic Anatomy                    Burne Hogarth

    Drawing The Head and Figure                Jack Hamm

    The Spirit Of Drawing                    Connie Smith Siegal

    The Zen Of Seeing/Seeing/Drawing As Meditation    Frederick Franck

    The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies In

Nature, Art, and Architecture            Gyorgy Doczi

Course Outline/Calendar: Determined by Instructor Addendum

For Example:

ACC Specific Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: 

• Analyze visual information in terms of proportional relationships, spatial relationships, harmonizing lines, and basic geometric shapes in order to accurately depict objects and groupings of objects and their relationships to each other. 

• Use shading (line weight, gradient tonalities, cross contour, cross hatching and stippling) to efficiently create the illusion of volume, depth, and the natural way light embraces and describes form. 

• Describe texture and organic rhythms drawing from still life objects, landscapes, and personal observation. 

• Execute one and two point perspective drawings from real life observation. 

• Discuss drawing using a commonly understood terminology and preferential, stylistic description. 

• Have a working understanding of useful tools that increase efficiency and productivity depending on client preferences, desired outcomes, productivity demands, and temporal constraints.

• Present completed work in a professional manner. 

 [Optional:  Instructors may include section specific learning outcomes].