Adult Ed

Adult Education Drawing I

0.5 Credits
18 weeks
senior woman artist sketching.
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Projects allow students to demonstrate competence and understanding of concepts and skills by completing a career-related task. For example, the assignment might be to create a mural, a package design, a speech, a film review, or a movie set – you name it! These creative projects are about applying your learning acquired through in-depth research to real-world career tasks.

Each competency will be addressed through a project based on a real-life career task. Here are the careers you will explore: Toy Designer, Shoe Designer, Architect, Fine Artist, and Animator.

Projects

Competencies

Shading and 3D Shapes

Students will demonstrate an understanding of drawing and shading three-dimensional shapes by creating and explaining a composition of a three-dimensional shape that includes a light source and a variety of values.

Line Drawings

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the different types of line drawings by explaining the purpose of each type and drawing an item using each type.

Perspective Drawings

Students will demonstrate an understanding of perspective drawings by explaining the difference between a one-point and two-point perspective drawing and creating shaded, one-point and two-point perspective drawings.

Still Life Drawings

Students will demonstrate an understanding of still life drawings by explaining the use of space and the role of proportion and creating a properly shaded illustration of a still life.

Surrealism

Students will demonstrate an understanding of surrealism by explaining the characteristics of surrealism, analyzing different surrealist artists’ artwork, and creating their own surreal drawing.