Students are encouraged to explore and develop innovative approaches to formal and conceptual content while expanding their range of materials and techniques for expressing the figure. Emphasis is on increasing an awareness of contemporary modes and on continuing to build a thorough understanding of traditional approaches to figurative drawing. Prerequisite: FD 1380 Life Drawing 2

This course introduces students to expressive issues in drawing the human figure. Students learn to analyze the figure in terms of planes, masses, shapes, action, proportion, rhythm and personal mark making. Areas covered include: gesture, quick sketch, long poses, foreshortening and composition. Prerequisite: FD 1370 Life Drawing 1

This figure drawing course allows students to exercise and develop both observational and constructive drawing skills. Students continue their study of gesture, the effect of light and shade on form, planes, constructive anatomy techniques, and achieving effective proportion through daily drawings of the draped and undraped figure. Character development, pose, composition, and illustrative storytelling themes add interest to the studies. Students use charcoal, conté crayon, inks, and pastels on various drawing surfaces. At the end of this course students shall, in a variety of media, have improved their ability to apply perceptual, geometric/constructive, and anatomical modes to the drawing of the clothed and unclothed human figure, and be able to place figures in a coherent story-telling setting. Prerequisite: FD 1380 Life Drawing 2