IDG 501
Drawing Composition and Illustration II
2
Course Description
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. develop drawing compositions on various themes consisting of human figures, animated and
inanimate objects;
2. develop landscape drawings demonstrating the knowledge of different perspectives; and
3. develop illustrations with emphasis on gestures of animated images.
Course Outline
Complex work on figure drawing, drapery and physical expressions, fore-shortening and
perspective studies from human poses and three-dimensional objects. Landscapes study with
focus on perspective, linear perspective, and aerial perspective, angular and parallel perspective
in landscape drawing, such as elliptical law of perspective which comprises of aerial view
recession, optical illusion, curvilinear, rectilinear, visual reality and illusionism. Study on Gestural
Illustrations, the gestural drawings could dovetail into preliminary illustrations for animated
images.