Syllabus

Course Description: Basic Drawing

Module Lesson Title Objectives

1. Experiment with different drawing tools such as pencils, pens, and brushes.
Comparing the
2. Explain the differences between lines made with different drawing tools.
1.1 Qualities of Different
3. Identify different tones made with different values or textures.
Drawing Tools
1. Demonstrate graded value steps in paper, pen line, rubbed texture tones, crayon, and
Making Light and
watercolor wash.
1.2 Dark Tones with
2. Experiment with different tools and techniques to create different values.
Different Tools
1. Create a cut paper still-life project in three values based on preliminary pencil sketches and
1.3 Still Life in Cut Paper value plans.

1. Improve your cut-paper still life based on recommendation from your instructor or your
Revised Cut Paper
1.4 own thoughts on improving your work.
Still Life
1. Use your cut-paper still life as a value plan for study in rubbed textures.
Still Life with Texture
1.5 2. Experiment with different textures in your still life.
Tones
1. Use your cut-paper still life as a value plan for study in pen lines.
Still Life with Pen
1.6 2. Experiment with different textures and techniques in your still life with pen lines.
Line Tones
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1. Use your cut-paper still life as a value plan for study in crayon strokes.
Still Life with Ink
1.7 2. Experiment with different textures and techniques in your still life with crayon strokes.
Wash Tones

Drawing Studies of 1. Observe and draw an outdoor landscape in pencil.

2.1
Building Shapes
1. Observe and draw an outdoor landscape in pencil.
Drawing Studies of
2.2 2. Design spacing arrangement and values in small-scale plans.
Building Groups
1. Observe and draw an outdoor landscape in pencil.
Planning a Building
2.3 2. Design spacing arrangement and values in small-scale plans.
Landscape
1. Observe and draw an outdoor landscape in pen.
Crosshatch Pen
2. Design spacing arrangement and values in small-scale plans.
2.4 Drawing
3. Use pen and ink crosshatch tone for a completed landscape drawing in three values.

Drawing Studies of 1. Observe and record cloud shapes using pencil.

2.5
Cloud Shapes
1. Practice wash-tones with black ink, damp paper, water, and brush, working for value
2.6 Practice Ink Painting contrast.

Ink Wash Painting of 1. Complete a watercolor-wash/crayon resist “stormy sky” scene.

2.7
Stormy Sky and Trees

3
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Practice Texture 1. Observe and record 10 texture patterns in pen and ink.
3.1
Drawings
Drawing an Outdoor
1. Draw a many textured outdoor scene in pencil and produce a small value plan.
3.2 Place of Many
Textures
Planning the Light 1. Draw a many textured outdoor scene in pencil and produce a small value plan.
3.3
and Dark Shapes
Pen Drawing of
Outdoor Scene in
1. Complete a pen and ink drawing in texture tones.
3.4 Light and Dark
Texture Patterns

Experiment with 1. Use light and shadow to create form of various objects and surfaces.
Seeing and Drawing 2. On gray paper, draw with white or black crayon showing light and shadow arrangement of
3.5
Light and Shade assigned shapes.

1. Use light and shadow to create form of various objects and surfaces.
Experiment with
2. On gray paper, draw with white or black crayon showing light and shadow arrangement of
3.6 Light and Shade on a
assigned shapes.
Curved Surface
1. Use light and shadow to create form of various objects and surfaces.
Drawing A Round
2. On gray paper, draw with white or black crayon showing light and shadow arrangement of
3.7 Form in Light and
assigned shapes.
Shade

4
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1. Compare two-and three-dimensional shapes.

4.1 Shapes and Depth

Practice Finding Lines

1. Explain how an eye level line works with depth and perspective in a drawing.
4.2 Above and Below the
Eye Level
Finding the Eye
Levels of a Building 1. Find and label eye level lines, perspective lines, and vanishing points in several images.
4.3
and of a Room

Drawing a 1. Portray three-dimensional shapes through exercises and original drawings using
4.4 Perspective View perspective line.

1. Portray three-dimensional shapes through exercises and original drawings using

Drawing a Chair in
4.5 perspective line.
Perspective

Practice Room 1. Demonstrate depth through freehand perspective pencil line drawing of a room corner.
4.6
Drawing
Pen Drawing of a
1. In pen and ink outline, draw the same room view. Become sensitive to line quality.
4.7 Room Interior

Practice Line 1. Experiment with line quality in exercises.

5.1
Variations

Drawing with Varied 1. Experiment with line quality by drawing objects.

5.2
Line Qualities
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Room Interior 1. Express line texture in a pen or conté outline drawing of a room interior.
5.3
Texture Outlines

Drawing Lines That 1. Draw lines expressing movement.

5.4
Move
Practice Doodle Line
1. Draw lines expressing movement.
5.5 Motions

1. Draw lines expressing movement.

5.6 Doodle Line Designs

Studies of Living 1. Observe and sketch plant growth lines suggesting movement.
5.7
Plants

Pen Drawing of 1. In ink complete an outline still-life drawing of a plant.

5.8
House Plant

Practice Brush Line

1. Experiment with brush and ink to create an drawing.
6.1 Action and Forms

1. Complete drawings using brush strokes.

6.2 Study Drawings

1. Complete a brush and ink drawing using the techniques you've developed.
6.3 Brush Drawings
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Observing Human
1. Observe people and how the human form moves.
6.4 Figures

Custom Activity
Comparing
1. Express a sense of action or in a figure study.
6.5 Movement Lines of
The Figure

Study Drawings of 1. Express a sense of action or relaxation in figure studies through gesture drawings.
6.6
Action

Crayon Line Drawing 1. Using crayon, draw from observation of a relaxed figure including a simple background.
6.7
of Relaxed Figure