Drawing 101: Develop Your Visual Skills (Basic skills and exercises) Course A

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Freehand Drawing


If you know how to write, you can learn how to draw. Drawing, like writing,
is a skill that can be developed over time with practice.
For instance, do you know what your eyeballs are actually looking at? Can
you mentally break the world down into shapes, lines, angles, sizes, colors,
brightness, etc.?

In drawing, one has to focus on both holistic proportional relationships as well
as focus on detail isolated from the whole. These two modes of seeing are
what underpins a successful drawing.
Skills we will work on in this class:
● recognizing edges, lines, and angles
● understanding proportion and perspective
● deciphering shadows, highlights, and gradations of tone
Come and learn what it means to “see!”

Train the eye and learn how to solve visual problems.
Develop the tools and techniques associated with artistic practice.
Understand the principles underlying all creative and representational
drawing through practical exercises.
Weather permitting, we will likely go outside for at least one or two lessons.

2-3 LP

Drawing exercises Students will be required to keep a sketchbook

Language of instructionEnglish
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Registration required via: https://plus.campus.kit.edu/signmeup/procedures/575