Drawing Composition and Illustration I

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.

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 example: 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.