Program(s): Visual and Creative Arts, Visual and Creative Arts - Adv
Program Coordinator(s): Andrew Bodor
Course Leader or Contact: N/A
Version: 1.01
Status: Approved (APPR)

Section I Notes: N/A

Detailed Description
Students work in series to develop visual ideas from observational sketches and their imagination in this intermediate level drawing course. Emphasis is placed on developing an extensive personalized repertoire of marks and images using a variety of drawing processes and media. Through lectures, demonstrations, in-class assignments and homework projects students develop drawing skills, expand their ability to generate ideas and transfer their learning to other studio disciplines.

Program Context

 
By the end of this course, students will have demonstrated the 
ability to develop a visual idea from a source through a series of 
drawings.  The drawings will demonstrate an understanding of design, 
enriched mark-making, abstraction, and show an extensive knowledge of 
drawing processes.

To achieve the critical performance, students will have demonstrated 
the ability to:

1.	Implement health and safety practices during studio work

2.	Create drawings from observation and the imagination that
        utilize a variety of media

3.	Use appropriate terminology and vocabulary to critique and
        analyze drawings and artwork

4.	Handle a variety of drawing materials and tools competently

5.	Generate visual ideas quickly through drawing 

6.	Develop a series of visual ideas from a source

7.	Transform an observational sketch into an abstract image

8.	Apply the Principles of Design (unity, scale, balance,  
        rhythm) to composing drawings

9.	Develop an extensive, personalized repertoire of marks and
        images

10.	Use drawing as a valuable practice in conjunction with object-
        making

11.	Produce a high quality portfolio of sketches and finished 
        artwork

12.	Exhibit professional behaviours and attitudes including:
          - openness to peer and instructor critiques
          - willingness to work collaboratively
          - commitment to meeting project due dates 
          - commitment to the development of unique solutions 

Evaluation Plan
Students demonstrate their learning in the following ways:
Weekly investigations submitted with each project)4 @ 10%   40%
Project 1: Drawing in series from observation               15% 
Project 2: Drawing in series from the imagination           15%
Project 3: Connecting drawing processes to painting         15%
Project 4: Abstracting from nature                          15%

Faculty of the Visual & Creative Arts Program at Sheridan encourages 
students to submit all projects on
time as this is excellent training for professional practice.

For all submissions:
All assignments and exercises must be submitted at the beginning of 
the class on the date specified in the assignment brief unless 
otherwise stated. If an assignment is handed in by the end of class, 
it will receive a 10% grade reduction. An assignment submitted within 
one week will receive a 20% grade reduction. Assignments more than 
one week late will not be graded unless a prior arrangement has been 
made with the teacher.

If there is a valid reason for the late assignment, the student must 
email the teacher no later than the date the assignment is due to 
indicate it will be late. If the reason is deemed to be valid, there 
will be no late penalty.

There will be no resubmission of work unless, under exceptional 
circumstances, this has been agreed to or suggested by the teacher.

A list will be provided to students in class.

Regular, punctual attendance and participation is necessary for 
successful completion of this studio-based course.


Week 1: Introduction
- Discussion of course outline, objectives and drawing media and
  materials
- Studio protocol and procedure
- Introduction to enriched mark-making and generating a series of
  drawings from a source
- Exploration of marks of resistance (wax resist with India ink) on 
  watercolour paper and mylar

Week 2:
- Demonstration and student exploration of wet media on different 
  grounds, i.e. water soluble graphite, reed pen and brush with ink
- Multiple gesture drawings from observation, prolonged studies
  exploring line quality, weight and value
- Homework:  Prepare papers with charcoal for next week and bring
  objects to draw
- Project 1 (10% + 15%): Drawing in series from observation (Due week
  4)

Week 3
- Demonstration and student exploration of marks of subtraction 
 (charcoal and gum eraser) 
- Make a series of observational sketches from the same object,
  exploring different compositions and perspectives. 
- Discussion of drawings in terms of the Principles of Design

Week 4
- Critique of Project 1 
- Lecture and slide show on generating drawings from the imagination
- Project 2 (10% + 15%): Drawing in Series from the Imagination (Due
  week 7)
- Homework: Bring in sketches, motif and images that relate to a 
  myth, song, poem, story, memory

Week 5
- Study drawings of contemporary artists
- Introduce new drawing process of collaging and layering with 
  translucent and opaque papers
- Develop imagery through quick drawing, free association


Week 6
- Demonstration and student exploration of drawing process using wire
  and wet conte on vellum and mylar
- Continue to develop imagery through quick drawing, free association

Week 7
- Critique of Project 2
- Project 3 (10% + 15%): Connecting Drawing Processes to Painting
  (Due week 11)

Week 8
- Slide show of contemporary visual artists using drawing in their
  practice: linking drawing processes to art practice 
- Demonstration and student exploration of drawing processes linked
  to painting
- Translucency, opacity and value are emphasized
- Non-traditional materials used for mark making and imagery

Week 9
- Demonstration and student exploration using non-traditional
  materials
- Line quality and rhythm is emphasized

Week 10
- Discussion of studio explorations
- Students develop imagery by executing gestural sketches in the
  various media 

Week 11
- Critique of Project 3
- Slide lecture: Abstraction in drawing
- Project 4 (10% + 15%): Abstracting from Nature (Due week 14)

Week 12
- Small gestural and extended sketches outdoors on campus grounds
  using choice of media 
- Alter scale and change media to abstract the sketches
- Homework: make new sketches from nature in another environment

Week 13
- Develop sequential images based on homework assignment 
- Discuss and analyze images in terms of the principles of design and
  content

Week 14
- Class Critique of Project 4