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2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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VISC 111 - Drawing for Visualization
PREREQUISITES: Demonstrated competency through appropriate assessment or earning a grade of “C” or better in ENGL 093 - Introduction to College Writing and ENGL 083 - Reading Strategies for College , or ENGL 095 - Integrated Reading and Writing , or ENGL 075 - Co-Requisite Integrated Reading & Writing
COREQUISITES: ENGL 093 - Introduction to College Writing and ENGL 083 - Reading Strategies for College , or ENGL 095 - Integrated Reading and Writing , or ENGL 075 - Co-Requisite Integrated Reading & Writing
PROGRAM: Visual Communications
CREDIT HOURS: 3
LECTURE HOURS: 1
LAB HOURS: 2
STUDIO: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2012
Introduces students to the tools and methods of drawing. Presents drawing as a catalyst to seeing and a way of recording ideas. Gives students the necessary drawing preparation for the study of design.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Compare and use the various tools and media applicable to the process of drawing.
- Draw an object on a two-dimensional plane (a sheet of paper) as it appears in actual three-dimensional space, by using art elements, design principles and laws of perspective.
- Employ an effective method of capturing in a rough drawing the proportions and gesture of the human form.
- Express mental images through professional looking thumbnail sketches.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Develop and use a drawing vocabulary.
- Experiment with a variety of media to execute a drawing.
- List and demonstrate various tools used in the drawing process.
- Apply the following art elements and design principles to the drawing process: line, value, texture, composition (format, open and closed form, balance, direction, positive/negative shape relationship, repetition/pattern, variation/contract, dominance/ subordination, movement, rhythm, depth, color, point of view, light source), perspective (linear, atmospheric, multiple), shape and value, abstraction (recognizable, non-objective).
- Analyze the subject in terms of proportion.
- Employ an adequate knowledge of anatomy
- Express the gesture of an anatomical subject by way of drawing
- Draw a “shape figure” in various poses from imagination.
- Express ideas (mental images) by way of thumbnail sketches.
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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