Chabot College
Fall 2005
Replaced Fall 2010
Course Outline for Art 2A
INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING
Catalog Description:
Art 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.
[Typical contact hours: lecture 35, studio 70]
Prerequisite Skills:
None
Expected Outcomes for Students:
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
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demonstrate the skill of hand and eye coordination in drawing;
organize a composition that reflects the five basic elements;
use balance and rhythm and negative and positive space to achieve unity and variety;
produce relatively flat, two-dimensional compositions;
create the illusion of three-dimensional form and space on a two-dimensional surface in black
and white media;
6. use tools and materials such as pencil, charcoal, and/or ink.
Course Content:
1. Developing hand-eye coordination through practice
2. The five plastic, visual, or basic elements
a. line
b. shape
c. value
d. texture
e. space
3. 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
4. Unity and variety arrived at through:
a. balance
b. rhythm
c. emphasis and subordination
d. negative and positive space
5. Spatial illusions
a. linear perspective
b. overlapping
c. diminishing size
6. Styles of working
a. drawing media
Chabot College
Course Outline for Art 2A, page 2
Fall 2005
Course Content (Cont.)
b. tools and materials
c. realism
d. abstraction
e. non-objectivism
Methods of Presentation:
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Lecture, discussion and demonstrations
Examples of student and professional work
Slides, PowerPoint and videos
A museum and/or a gallery visit with an appropriate exhibition
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
1. Typical Assignments
a. Create an asymmetrical contour line drawing of shoes that uses good positive and
negative space and in which some of the shoes are in a foreshortened view.
b. Make 6 thumbnail drawings from the same still life setup. Choose one of the
thumbnail drawings and blow its composition up to 18" x 24". Use soft, fine charcoal
to do a value study of that composition using only one light source.
2. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
a. Review class projects
b. Observe during class as students draw
c. Measure and compare student output
d. Final portfolio review
Textbook(s) (Typical):
Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts, Sandy Brooke, Prentice Hall, 2002
Special Student Materials:
Drawing supplies to complete assigned studies.
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