Media Arts & Communication Studies

Realistic Drawing

Course Outline
Upon completion of this course you will be competent in pencil sketching of still-life and human subjects. You will have acquired the knowledge of the essential drawing skills needed for Commercial Art, Advertising and Graphic Arts. This is a single stream course.

Topics of study covered within this course include the following: 

• Drawing and the Art of Bicycle Riding
• The Drawing Exercises: One Step at a Time
• Your Brain: The Right and Left of It
• Crossing Over: Experiencing the Shift from Left to Right
• Drawing on Memories: Your History as an Artist
• Getting Around Your Symbol System: Meeting
• Edges and Contours
• Perceiving the Shape of a Space: The Positive Aspects of Negative Space
• Relationships in a New Mode: Putting Sighting in Perspective
• Facing Forward: Portrait Drawing with Ease
• The Value of Logical Lights and Shadows
• Drawing on the Beauty of Color
• The Zen of Drawing Out the Artist Within
• Is Beautiful Handwriting a Lost Art