Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

• The course includes demonstrations, slides, lectures, video/films and field trips.
• A minimum 3 hours of homework per week in the form of private exploration of the concepts and processes introduced in class will be required.
• College level reading comprehension is necessary.
• Art 131 fulfills Arts and Letters requirements for Gen. Ed., block transfer and PCC graduation.

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

1. Apply creative ways to solve problems using a variety of strategies for making drawings.
2. Implement a basic vocabulary to be able to actively participate in a critical dialogue about drawing with others.
3. Understand, interpret, and critically evaluate drawings of the past and the present from one’s own and from different cultures to initiate a life long study of the diversity of perspectives of the human experience.
4. Establish perceptual and conceptual skills to develop greater sensitivity and awareness of the visual world through drawing.

• The course may include demonstrations, slides, lectures, video/films and field trips.
• Build upon current skill set with the intent of working towards technical and conceptual proficiency.

1. Create drawings that incorporate a variety of technical skills with an awareness of the inherent characteristics of different drawing processes.
2. Begin to generate ideas/concepts with an awareness of the intended content of the work produced.
3. Build upon current skill set with the intent of working towards technical proficiency.
4. Å·ÖÞ±­¾öÈü¾º²Âapp_Å·ÖÞ±­×ãÇòÍø-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø safe studio practices in regards to the handling of tools, chemicals and machinery within a communal studio space.
5. Further expand and utilize the necessary vocabulary specific to drawing when participating in class critiques and discussions.
6. Begin to assess and self-critique personal work to strategize creative solutions.
7. Begin to develop personal work with an awareness of historical and contemporary artists working in drawing.

• Experience various processes by which the artist sees nature, conceives ideas, and executes a drawing.
• Examine aspects of the conceptual process; experiencing, visualizing, symbolizing, playing, imagining, etc.
• Bring all human senses to the experience of drawing.
• Discover an individual way of understanding the world and giving it form through drawing.
• Apply one's knowledge of material and techniques to understanding the drawing.
• Participate in studio work sessions, class discussions, and critiques.

• Become familiar with composition in the picture plane. Examine
compositional devices such as symmetry, asymmetry, rhythm,
push/pull, etc.
• Observe interaction between figure and ground.

• Gain sense of three-dimensional illusion through linear and aerial perspective, modeling in light, etc.
• Distinguish line, edge, contour .
• Examine texture: expressive and naturalistic.
• Practice the gesture in mark making.
• Understand the differences between illustration, representation, expression and their effects.
• Become familiar with various charcoals and contes.
• Become familiar with wet media: ink, ink wash, wash with dry media, etc.
• Experiment with mixed media.
• Examine papers for various surface effects and working processes.