12/21/2024 5:13:35 PM	ART 12 Course Outline as of Fall 2008	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ART 12	Title:  FIGURE DRAWING
Full Title:  Figure Drawing
Last Reviewed:4/13/2020

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	2.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	35.00
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	4.00		3 min.	Lab Scheduled	70.00
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	6.00			Contact Total	105.00
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  70.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 175.00

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  34 - 4 Enrollments Total
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Catalog Description:

Drawing the human figure employing the basic concepts and skills covered in Art 7A, such as shape, volume, plane, contour, space, light, movement, composition, and expression, using a variety of graphic tools and media.  

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Drawing the human figure employing the basic concepts & skills covered in Art 7A, shape, volume, plane, contour, space, light, movement, composition,& expression, using a variety of graphic tools & media.  

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:34 - 4 Enrollments Total

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:
CID Descriptor: ARTS 200	Figure Drawing	SRJC Equivalent Course(s): ART12

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.  Review basic drawing concepts such as shape, mass, contour, volume,

   space, scale, light, movement and figure/ground.

2.  Increase perception and awareness of visual relationships such as

   proportion, scale, gesture, positive and negative shape within

   the human figure.

3.  Develop conceptual and technical skills necessary to represent a

   living subject, as opposed to an inanimate object.

4.  Master ability to perform analytical operations necessary to draw

   the human figure from any vantage point and in any position: using

   sight measuring and foreshortening techniques.

5.  Study anatomy of the human skeleton and muscular system as they

   pertain to drawing the human figure.

6.  Consider various qualities of human and artistic expression

   which the figure inspires.

7.  Practice basic and intermediate drawing skills to achieve these ends.

8.  Examine and analyze examples of master figure drawings, historical

   and contemporary.

9.  Exercise ability to make critical aesthetic judgments through class

   critiques.  

Topics and Scope

The primary intent of Art 12 is visual literacy and demonstration of the

ability to accurately and expressively represent the human figure using

specific media in a studio setting.  This includes:

1.  Comprehension of the concept of gesture and use of techniques of

gesture drawing to express the essential action of the figure.

2.  Recognizing various factors relating specifically to the figure such

as mass, axis, proportion and distribution of weight.

3.  Ability to recognize and name basic anatomical features of the live

model.

4.  Ability to draw from and to identify major anatomical features of

the human skeleton.

5.  Ability to analyze the figure using concepts and terms of basic

drawing: shape, contour, value, textural contrasts, volumes, planes,

negative space, etc.

6.  Ability to use a variety of drawing techniques to represent the

particulars of the human figure: sketching, modeling, hatching, use of

rubbed tone, use of contour line drawing, use of ink washes, etc.

7.  Drawing the figure in relation to props and to the immediate envir-

onment, juxtaposing similar and contrasting shapes, volumes, values,

spatial axes.

8.  The ability to intelligently use and care for the graphic media and

tools for Art 12 (Pencils, vine and compressed charcoal, contÅ crayon,

chamois cloth, erasers, pens and nibs, brushes and inks.

The scope and sequence of the course will be presented as follows:

1.  Through lectures and slide lectures concerning the concepts, elements

and art historical precedents of drawing.

2.  Through lecture/demonstrations of the proper use of materials and

techniques.

3.  Through student practice and demonstration of compositional,

expressive and technical concepts.

4.  Through evaluative one-on-one discussions with individual students.

5.  Through group critique discussions and presentations of in-class

and homework drawings.

Specific areas of study within Art 12 include:

1.  Gesture:  using techniques of gesture drawing to express the

essential action of the figure.

2.  Mass:  Simplifying surface details on the figure using techniques of

mass drawing to express the overall weight, girth and shape of the

figure.

3.  Schematic Drawing:  analyzing the major angles and geometric shape

relationships in the figure and using primarily straight lines to plot

that analysis.

4.  Quick Study:  developing fast drawing approaches to figure drawing

suitable for short poses.

5.  Proportions of the Human Figure:  studying ideal and real proportions

of the figure using examples from the Italian Renaissance as well as

from actual observation of the live model.

6.  Foreshortening:  understanding how perspective affects figure drawing.

Use of plumb lines, sighting, measuring, observation of overlapping

edges, value relationships to accurately draw the figure in space.

7.  The Figure in the Environment:  considering relationships between the

figure, props and the space of the room.  Developing more complex comp-

ositional ideas.

8.  Abstraction, Simplification or Distortion of the Human Figure:

studying how 20th Century approaches to figurative art have employed

these techniques to enhance expressive rather than realistic properties.

9.  Process:  balancing the deliberate and planned, with the accidental

and spontaneous.  

Assignments:

1.  Gesture drawing (very brief poses)

2.  Negative space

3.  Silhouettes

4.  Axe (finding and demarking axial directions)

5.  Outline

6.  Blind contour (without looking at paper), quick contour, cross contour

7.  Angular contours using only straight lines

8.  Cubic, void, lanar construction

9.  Tone as a spatial clue (darker for farther)

10. Modeling with continuous tone; with hatching

11. Light and shadow: revealing lights with eraser on toned paper

12. The figure with props an environment

13. Cropping (selecting a portion of the figure)

14. Distortion, exaggeration, abstraction

15. Three values (using white chalk and charcoal on mid-toned paper

16. Drawing the skeleton next to the figure

17. The figure as landscape

18. The figure in motion

19. Drawing the head, hands, feet

20. Changing the scale: miniscule to life-size  

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because problem solving assessments and skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course.
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 30%
Homework problems
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 30%
Class performances
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 60 - 80%
A portfolio of completed work will the major basis for course grade. Othe factors: attendance, attitude, attentiveness, effort, growth, participatio

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

The Natural Way to Draw, by Kimon Nicolaides, Houghton Mifflin Co,

Boston, Copyright 1969, by Anne Nicolades.

Drawing From Life, Clint Brown, Cheryl McLean, Harcourt Brace Jovanovick

College Publishers, Copyright 1992, by Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc.

Figure Drawing, The Structure, Anatomy and Expressive Design of Human

Form, by Nathan Goldstein, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ,

1987, Third Edition.  

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