Drawing: Skills Practice

This class will focus on using graphite pencils and charcoal to achieve well drafted drawings. It is a Highschool level drawing course and counts for a year art credit per grade. I have designed this course for homeschoolers who would like to get a jump on college level drawing courses. They will learn similiar lessons that are taught at a college level without the reading component. The student will build accuracy at drawing people, places and things in a believable fashion. We will start by becoming acquinted with the materials the class will be using.  The class will focus less on realism and more about line, shadows, texture, lights and marks on the page to create believable 3-D form on paper. The students will start the 17 week course drawing 4x6 rectangles that will each have a macro sized drawing within it that uses the various pencils. The instructor will give examples and the student will draw along with the teacher during class time. The teacher will use the book "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" for examples. This book teaches many skills and the instructor learned from this book during her B.F.A. degree and her M.F.A. degree. Each week the student will be shown a reference and we will complete a drawing from it while learning about different drawing techniques.


July 24 Basic terminology= Value, hue, light, shadow (using the materials to create shadow and line)

July 31 Perspective (from still-life)

Aug 6   Foreshortening (Figurative)

Aug. 13 More Foreshortening (Figurative)

Aug 20 Shading (from an object presented)

August 27 (Surface and texture) Graphite

Sept. 2 Size of objects on a page in relationship to each other (still life)

Sept 9 Proportion (human figure)

Sept 16. Contour lines (Portraits)

Sept 23. Overlapping (Lines and Objects)

Sept 30 Density through Value (Shading on a scale)

Semester 2 = Light (Artificail Light on an Object)

Oct. 6 Shadows with graphite (More on Artificail Light)

Oct 13  Chiaroscuro in shadow and light (Values with bright and Darkest value)

Oct 20 Shadow and Light (Charcoal Drawing)

October 27 Value and Tone (Creating expression in a portrait)

November 2 Reflections (Water)