Welcome to Foundations Drawing: Course Overview

Introductions To Class and Instructor

ACTIVITY: The Exquisite Corpse 
Each group discusses:

  • What is your previous experience with drawing?
  • What is one thing you really like to draw?
  • What is something you are passionate about?
  • What is one thing you’re so good at you feel you could teach it to someone else?

Share your exquisite corpse drawings. Each Student introduces another member of their group with one fact about them.

Discuss: Syllabus & Requirements

Lecture: Perception & Drawing

Video: Lion King – Character Design

Lecture: Sketchbook Practice

Introduce: The idea of Left brain vs. Right brain

ACTIVITY: Drawing From Memory- Draw your home

Optional Supply Trip

Vocabulary:

Perception: The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

synonyms: recognition, awareness, consciousness, realization, knowledge, grasp, understanding.

Practice:
1. Perform an activity or exercise a skill repeatedly or regularly in order to improve or maintain one’s proficiency.

2. Carry out or perform (a particular activity or custom) habitually or regularly.

synonyms: rehearse, run through, go over/through, work on/at

DUE FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. Share a task in your daily life that is right-brain controlled. Explain why you think so.
2. Share a task in your daily life that is left-brain controlled. Explain why you think so.