Drawing II builds upon the foundation of Drawing I, functioning as a transitional course from the emphasis on technique to conceptual skills, involving personal ideas and interpretations in preparation for advanced work.

Your skills and abilities in drawing will continue to develop through a series of drawing projects emphasizing the perception of three-dimensional form and space. With each project, you will develop conceptual abilities in composition, the significance of scale and proportion, and the elements of light space and surface. You will also learn to integrate and order intuitive ideas with the elements of drawing and the perceptual world. To work their ideas through a collective or series of drawings, and develop an idea or attitude to a conclusion.

You will learn to discuss and critically analyze their work and the drawings by other students. Study will include formalist, intentionalist, evocative, positivist and criticism evolving from ideas about meaning, symbols, signs and language. Museum visits, readings, and slides will also be utilized.

Class topics include: Realism: a study in form, light and surface. Perception of a compositional structure which is created by the student. Emphasis on illusion, definition of form, light and the surface of each object in the arrangement. Also, some conceptual and ironic effects which define each student's individual expressive ability.