Student Learning Outcomes

• Perceive, comprehend, interpret, and invent imagery
• Draw in a variety of technique.
• Create original drawings using design and composition concepts.
• Apply visual concepts of format, negative and positive shapes, form, shadow, light, value and basic linear perspective in drawings.
• Sketch or draw complex objects gesturally as basic or modified basic shapes and form to solve complex composition problems
• Create sketches and finished drawings which demonstrate the capacity to perceive, comprehend and interpret the three-dimensional world using various media and techniques.
• Observe and analyze individual form as seen volumetrically in space and structure that form as part of the whole pictorial composition.
• Students will be able to create illusions of three-dimensional forms using the rules of light logic.
• Analyze drawings in oral or written critique using design and composition concepts
• Utilize original and creative thinking in projects and writings such as the keeping of a visual and/or written journal.
• Synthesize the formal art elements and principles with the observed world in varying compositional formats.
• Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal, contemporary and historical art works and their place in visual and commercial arts using art terminology for content, technique, and style in both written and oral critiques.