ART 180 Drawing and 2D Design
A multidisciplinary approach is taken as students learn the basic design elements and principles common to all two-dimensional art (drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, filmmaking, etc), while also gaining practical and applicable skills while developing many in basic drawing and painting. The elements and principles will be explored through reading, lecture, discussion and exercises; this design vocabulary will be put to use in discussion, critique, and written assignments. By integrating these concepts into drawing projects students will learn to put the theory into practice. Students will explore the possibilities of drawing materials by making compositions from observation and from the imagination. They will learn to render basic formal elements (line, shape, value, color, texture, mass, color) as they investigate perspective, composition, and pictorial space. Students will be introduced to the digital equipment of the Fabrication Lab. This course fulfills the ART 113 & 115 prerequisites for further study in the Art Department. Offered yearly. Suitable for majors and non-majors.