ART 205 Human Life Drawing

5 credits

This advanced drawing course focuses on the human form as a basis for learning about composition, anatomy (including skeletal and muscular structure), and movement. Students will exit the course with the ability to draw the human form accurately in proportions, gesture, balance, structure, foreshortening, and surface anatomy.

This course draws from the nude human form.

This course meets the Humanities general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ART 121

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Identify bone structures and surface muscle in the human form
Use important anatomical reference points to establish proportion
Execute gesture drawings
Sketch schematic and planar-analysis drawings
Apply form and cast shadows with differentiation of soft/hard edges
Draw the human form through a range of motion
Contextualize Figure Formalist and Figure Humanist artworks in their respective traditions

General Education Distribution Area Outcomes
Students who successfully complete courses in the Humanities distribution area will be able to:

Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20