Chabot College/Las Positas College
October 1996
Course Outline for Art 2A
INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING
Catalog Description:
2A - Introduction to Drawing
3 units
Skills development in light and shade, composition, perspective, and other basics. The use of
pencil, charcoal, and/or ink. 2 hours lecture, 4 hours studio.
Prerequisite Skills:
None
Expected Outcomes for Students:
Upon completion of the course, the student should:
1. have developed the skill of hand and eye coordination in drawing and an ability to organize a
composition;
2. be able to recognize and produce relatively flat, two-dimensional compositions and also have the
ability to produce the illusion of three-dimensional form and spaces on a two-dimensional surface
in black and white media;
3. understand how to control the media, pencil, charcoal and/or ink.
Course Content:
1. The five / plastic, visual, or basic / elements.
a. Line (outline, contour, quality, weight).
b. Shape (four basic shapes).
c. Value
d. Texture
e. Space
2. Terminology
a. Picture plane
b. Planes parallel to the picture plane
c. Planes that break the picture plane
d. Format
e. Focal area
f. Foreground, middleground, background
3. Unity and variety arrived at through:
a. Balance
b. Rhythm, organized movement
c. Emphasis
4. Movement in two- and three-dimensional space through:
a. Line
b. Major axis lines of shapes
c. Value (open and closed color)
d. Negative and positive space
5. Spatial illusions (from deep to shallow)
a. Linear perspective
b. Overlapping
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c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Diminishing size
Value sequence
Atmospheric perspective
Location on the picture plane
Frontal dominance
6. Styles
a. Realism
b. Abstraction
c. Non-objectivity
Methods of Presentation:
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5.
Lectures/demonstrations
Reproductions of Masters' drawings and the work of contemporary artists
Self-criticism
Individual and group critiques
Field trips for landscape drawing
Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Observation
Tests
Evidence reflecting art productivity
Final exam
Textbook(s) Typical):
None
Special Student Materials:
Required list of drawing supplies to complete all of the assigned studies.
NS:kh Art 2A
Revised: 10/30/96
kk 7/12/01
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