2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ART 211 - Life Drawing II


Description: Emphasis on drawing forms. Personal growth and individual techniques developed through projects emphasizing various media and techniques in drawing history. Application of design principles.

Prerequisites: ART 210  

Credits: 3
Lecture: 1
Lab: 5

Course Content:
  1. Contour and studies
  2. Modeling of figure with value
  3. Modeling of figure in color studies
  4. Study of bone and muscle structure
  5. Completed compositions
  6. Experimentation with media
  7. Formal elements and principles of design
  8. Historical and contemporary art examples
  9. Critique

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Utilize contour and gesture studies in finished drawings.
  2. Model the figure in black and white.
  3. Model the figure in color.
  4. Identify bone and muscle structure of figure.
  5. Develop total design awareness through development of the background and support areas of the figure.
  6. Utilize technical skill with various media.
  7. Identify the formal elements and principles of design.
  8. Analyze the formal elements and principles of design.
  9. Interpret the formal elements and principles of design.
  10. Recognize historical or contemporary examples of the fine arts or crafts.
  11. Use media specific terminology to critique and evaluate works of art.

Required Assessment:
  1. Critique and evaluation of art and artifacts.