DESMA 21
Drawing and Color
Description: Studio, six hours; outside study, six hours. For drawing, exploration of relationship between concept and image creation while fostering development of sound drawing and observation skills. For color, exploration of development of fundamental skills in mixing and applying pigments with brush on watercolor paper, as well as use of computer as tool for working with colors. Combination of painting and software to be predominant way of exploring and presenting ideas regarding color. P/NP or letter grading.
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Spring 2021 - This class isn't exactly what you would expect from something named "Drawing and Color"— there's little to no learning about illustration and traditional drawing. That said, I still enjoyed it and it was a good foundational class. You go over design principles (like rhythm/contrast/movement) and the history of these; there were a few interesting lectures about the Bauhaus movement, for example. Majority of your assignments will be in Adobe Illustrator with a couple ventures into Photoshop. The first couple are kind of boring because you're just drawing patterns/shapes to show the design principles, but the final project a group assignment in pairs where you create a product/service, design a slide deck, and pitch it to the class. Open-ended and was fun. Overall, even though some concepts we learned were kind of elementary, this was the class that really got me used to the Illustrator workflow; learned a lot of useful shortcuts and functions that have served me well to today.
Spring 2021 - This class isn't exactly what you would expect from something named "Drawing and Color"— there's little to no learning about illustration and traditional drawing. That said, I still enjoyed it and it was a good foundational class. You go over design principles (like rhythm/contrast/movement) and the history of these; there were a few interesting lectures about the Bauhaus movement, for example. Majority of your assignments will be in Adobe Illustrator with a couple ventures into Photoshop. The first couple are kind of boring because you're just drawing patterns/shapes to show the design principles, but the final project a group assignment in pairs where you create a product/service, design a slide deck, and pitch it to the class. Open-ended and was fun. Overall, even though some concepts we learned were kind of elementary, this was the class that really got me used to the Illustrator workflow; learned a lot of useful shortcuts and functions that have served me well to today.
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