Course Descriptions for "Creative Drawing - You Can Do It!"

Packet #1

WEEK I - Introduction to supplies, basic contour drawing of one item with only the most meaningful inner lines, eye level, profile and front views, proportion, angled items and fitting the paper, adding details, Some complication, and drawing from memory.

WEEK II - Introduction to sketching half-turned items, more than half turned, sketching from above item/from below, adding detail, more complicated items, and exaggerating shapes.

WEEK III - Introduction to simple outdoor items, minimum of detail, front and profile views, eye level, each day less simple sketching (more detail).

WEEK IV - Introduction to mechanical items, simple views at eye level, front & profile views, from back, from above half turned and more than half turned, detailed, drawing from memory first then use imagination.

WEEK V - Introduction to shadowing: what causes shadows and how to determine where they will be. Supplies and techniques, textures, strong contrast, deciding backgrounds, rest of week from simple to more involved, shadowing our sketches.

WEEK VI - Introduction to simplest perspective and how it is suggested. Days 1, 2 and 3 indoor perspective. Days 4 - 7 simple outdoor perspective. More on perspective in a later packet.

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