SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

COLLEGE COURSE SYLLABUS

for

VA 34 DRAWING II

I. Course Title: Drawing II

II. Catalog Description: 2005 – 2006

More detailed investigation of concepts explored in VA33 Drawing I. Investigation of various wet and dry drawing media (1hr. lecture, 4 studio hrs. each week.) Prerequisite: VA33 Drawing I

III. Goals:

A. Develop increased eye-hand coordination and perceptual acuity.

B. Develop increased ability to sustain attention.

C. Develop heightened emotional awareness, and ability to use emotions to guide esthetic decisions.

D. Develop esthetic criteria used to guide decision-making; articulate a creative process verbally and in writing.

E. Develop increased mastery in the use of several drawing media.

F. Develop increasingly imaginative and personally expressive solutions to class assignments.

IV. Outcome Behaviors: At the end of the course students will be able to:

A. Demonstrate mastery in the use of several drawing media: graphite, colored pencil, pastel, and ink.

B. Graphically represent form through the combined use of line (as boundary or contour) and value (light and dark areas between edges).

C. Demonstrate knowledge of perspective and proportion to produce accurately drawn representations of the visual world.

D. Demonstrate knowledge of basic drawing techniques such as "blind" and "modified" contour drawings, gesture drawing, and negative space drawing.

E. Utilize design concepts of order, unity, balance, repetition and variation, positive/negative space, and hierarchy to form creative judgments, to produce compelling compositions, and to objectively analyze a drawing.

F. Use drawing to produce artistic, esthetically sophisticated, and personally expressive art.

V. Programs that Require this Course:

Visual Art A.S., Computer Art A.A.S, Graphic Design A.A.S., Interior Design Assistant A.A.S.

VI. Major Topics Required with Approximate Times for Each Major Topic*:

(30 sessions per semester)

Design and composition (addressed in every class session)

Positive/negative space and figure/ground (covered in every class session)

Black/white media (graphite, charcoal or conte crayon) (approximately one half of the course emphasizes the use of these media)

Color (pastel, ink, colored pencils) (approximately one half of the course includes the use of colored drawing media)

Line variety, edge treatments, value (covered in every session)

Basic drawing techniques (contour, gesture, thumbnails, blocking-in) (approximately half of the class sessions involve use of these basic techniques)

Realism: accurate rendering of form, including proportion, texture, contrast, value and local color, perspective and atmospheric perspective (approximately two-thirds of the course emphasizes realistic forms of drawing)

Remembered, imagined, or intentionally distorted imagery (drawing from memory, fantasy or dream) (approximately a quarter of the course emphasizes this form of drawing)

Non-objective (abstract) drawing (approximately 10% of class sessions are devoted to non-objective drawing)

Significant examples of drawing from art history (almost every class session exposes students to models of excellent drawing)

Artistic meaning and emotional responses to graphic images (almost all class sessions address the esthetic meaning of drawn images)

Creativity (every class session encourages the development of creative abilities and an increasing awareness of a personal creative process)

VII. Special Instructions:

A. Prerequisites to this course: VA33 Drawing I

B. Courses that require VA34: no ongoing course offering; VA44 Special Topics: Drawing III

C. External Jurisdiction: none

VIII. Supporting Information:

Museum visits and gallery exhibitions

Library and Internet research

IX. Optional Topics:

X. Evaluation of Student Performance*:

Drawings done in class and as homework

Creative process essay

Artist research

* Any combination of the above. Left to the discretion of the instructor.