Course Description

This course introduces students to commercial drawing techniques with an emphasis on perspective, pencil, pen & ink, marker, water color and gouache when illustrating a variety of different products and illustration formats. Creative media experimentation is encouraged through the assignments. Group 2 course.

Credit Hours

3

Contact Hours

4

Lab Hours

4

General Education Outcomes supported by this course

Critical Thinking - Direct

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge:

• Use illustration terminology.
• Use illustration terminology.

Application:

• Apply perspective principles to products.
• Demonstrate independent work ethic as an illustrator or designer.
• Integrate innovation and originality into products.
• Create stories through sequential storyboarding or character development.
• Utilize marker rendering techniques in products.
• Critical Thinking.

Integration:

• Integrate skills, tools and techniques into product development.
• Use industry standards in product development.

Human Dimension:

• Use the content in this course to inform and help others and themselves.
• Critique projects with peers and others.
• Resolve issues in products through self-reflection and feedback from others.

Caring - Civic Learning:

• Create a product based on a contemporary, social issue.

Learning How to Learn:

• Correlate research and imagination to develop unique designs.
• Frame useful questions for developing technical skills.
• Interact constructively during critiques and discussions.