This course offers students a strong, academic introduction to drawing. Students learn to draw the basic forms and apply that knowledge to drawing the complex forms of the human head and hand. Students become familiar with the basic structure and proportion of the hand and the head and its features. Students learn to understand light and its qualities and to render accurately their play across forms. Students are required to pay a fee so a variety of models can be hired.
Students demonstrate skills at a higher level of performance.
In addition to typography, color and composition, students are engaged in problem solving and critical thinking activities in order to solve fundamental design problems. This intermediate-level course focuses on the technology platform used in the design profession. Emphasis is on computer graphics software applications, type formatting and appropriate file construction. In addition to page layout, drawing and software applications, students focus on fundamental photo manipulation and three-dimensional design software. In this course, students design and produce basic-level design projects with more complexity than in previous projects.