Cast Drawing - The Art Department

Cast Drawing

ECD201 | Elective | Wed + Fri | 2pm-5pm

InstructorS

Johnathan Hardesty & Dorian Iten

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Cast Drawing introduces the student to the most foundational concepts of making successful representational art through sound draftsmanship. This method of learning to draw has been used effectively throughout history in the Italian, French, and Russian tradition. Many of the famous artists such as J. C. Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, and John Singer Sargent, also learned in this fashion.

Learning Objectives

Objectives throughout the length of this course help students to learn to handle the charcoal medium, maintain proportion in a drawing, successfully employ values and edges in proper relationship to one another, while at the same time allowing students to develop finishing techniques that improve their skills at creating polished images from life and imagination.

Learning Outcomes

This class will build patience and control, two skills necessary to create fully finished and rendered images. Each stage of the process must be grasped fully before moving on to successive stages. By the end of this class students will complete the most accurate and visually realistic drawing from life they have ever done.

Course Requirements

This course is required for all Entertainment 2D students, and is available as an elective for all other TAD majors. Prerequisite is FRM101.

Students will be issued a syllabus that will list the goals, projected outcomes, grading system, and any other resources the instructor deems necessary.

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All TAD classes include live demonstrations, thought provoking lectures, relevant presentations, instructor and peer feedback and critique, with a conscious effort made for content appropriate for artists of all skill levels and trades, and applicable to the freelance artist as well as the corporate visual communicator.

All TAD classes are streamed live and then available 24 hours a day to students On Demand, enabling a fully flexible schedule for viewing the classes and getting the direct and personal feedback required to be successful. Live classes are scheduled according to Central Standard Time (CST), adjusted for Daylight Savings Time (CDT) during the summer months.