This class is for students who have taken basic drawing courses and are interested in furthering their art skills by learning more advanced drawing techniques. Students will learn advanced shading techniques such as cross-hatching and pointillism. They will also further their expertise with graphite pencils while developing skills with charcoal pencils as well. Students will then further their drawing expertise by learning how to shade with color using either chalk pastels, oil pastels or colored pencils. Finally they will learn how to hear and give constructive feedback on artwork via group critiques.

Week One: Advanced Shading- In this lesson we will learn 2 new shading techniques that we will then apply to 2 drawings.
Week Two: Principles of Art-This lesson will discuss how to construct a beautiful piece of artwork using elements and principles of design. These techniques will then be applied to a new drawing that students will design themselves.
Week Three: Using Charcoal- In this lesson we will go over the basics of using charcoal to create beautiful and lifelike works of art. Students will then create a new work of art using only charcoal.
Week Four: Adding Color-This lesson is all about color theory and how to use its principles to bring your pictures to life with vibrant colors. Students will use what they learn on a still life of a fruit bowl.
Week Five: Proportions-This lesson will teach you all about the proportions of humans compared to each other and other objects/animals. Students will then be required to create an image incorporating multiple different sized objects and people within it.
Week Six: Final Project/Group Critique-In this lesson we will finish our final projects and give constructive feedback to others.