Faculty: This example post demonstrates how you can provide information about each class for your students. It uses the category “Classes” and can be found under Activities > Classes in the site menu. Use the suggested outline below to structure your class posts.
Class Info
- Date: Add date
- Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location
To-Do Before Class
- Familiarize yourself ahead of time with our Open Lab course and all its features.
- Complete the Student Survey
- Try to obtain all the Materials you need for this course. See Materials List.
- Today you will need:
- Notebook
- Sketchbook
- HB and 2B drawing pencils
- 18″ x 24″ newsprint pad
- Drawing clipboard
- Erasers
- Gather your supplies and be ready to work 15 minutes before class.
Topic
Introduction to Figure Drawing & the Full-Frontal Face
Up Close & Personal: Beginning with the Human Face
Objectives
- To gain an overview of the many approaches to drawing the figure in art history
- To be introduced to selected great master drawings
- To understand how figure drawing benefits you as a communicator
- To learn the proportions of the “universal” full-frontal view
- To transform the universal diagram into the likeness of an actual individual
Activities
- Introductions: Introduce yourself and tell us a little something about yourself.
- What’s your major?
- What do you want to do when you graduate?
- Discussions: Introductions
- Course Overview
- Course site and tolls
- Expectations
- Slide show: An over view of the figure in art history through 100 artists’ self-portraits from 1484-today https://www.thedrawingsource.com/self-portrait-drawings.html
- Assignment 1: Up Close & Personal
To-Do After Class
- Class Drawings
- Upload your in-class drawings to immediately after class.
- Professor will provide Dropbox File Request link or similar
- Review Class Drawings Instructions for instructions.
- Introductions
- Add comment introducing yourself to the class and respond to a fellow student’s introduction comment in the Discussions: Introductions post under Discussions.
- Assignment 1: Up Close & Personal
- Complete and upload Assignment 1: Photo Study Guides.
- Review Assignment 1: Up Close & Personal: Photo Study Guides for instructions.
- Sketchbook
- Upload 6 sketches to Sketchbook Week 1 in Student Work.
- Review Sketchbook Drawings for instructions.
- Course Materials
- Obtain your course materials.
- Review the Materials List for details.
- Reading
- Read for discussion next week: “Self-Portraits Versus Selfies” on Canvas.
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