Figure Drawing Course Outcomes:

Students will learn to analyse and intuit the dynamics of the human form visually. They will use this knowledge to build skills in representing the figure in various drawing media. Various approaches will be explored: expressing the dynamics of a pose, using rudimentary anatomy to enhance and create a dynamic figure drawing, displaying volume, foreshortening, and different techniques: conté crayon, metalpoint, brush and ink, wash, and heightening with white, and ways of rendering: smudging, erasing, and hatching. Students will learn to “draw from the inside out”–that figure drawing is an analog for basic visual creativity–and that various drawing media are not only for pleasing effects but can stimulate creativity.