F100 Drawing is an introductory studio course that
provides students a free hand linear approach to pictorial
representation.  Various graphic, media, methods, and skills
define "formal" and "personal" geometric and expressive studies
from nature, constructed objects, and imaginary sources.
Initially, the curriculum emphasizes geometrical line principles
that develop hand-eye coordination and a visual awareness for the
interpretation of a two-dimensional image.  This entails visual
measuring, isometric and perspective constructions, reflection
principles, optical illusions, and dimensional representations of
simple volumetric objects.  Graphite pencils are used to create
clear and exact line and shape forms having specific proportional
limitations.  These studies introduce visual concepts that
underlie and are preparatory to a subsequent and more personally
expressive free-hand drawing discipline.  Line and shaded
(value-color) relationships are studied in unified compositions
and offer the student a more complex interpretation of physical
form and reflected light.  Throughout the course "formal"
analytic and "free" intuitive approaches combine a conscious,
deliberate, skills control with a personal investigation of ideas
manifesting the drawing act.  Seeing/perceiving and
thinking/conceiving through drawing reveals to each student a
personal history of visual experience that is continually
revised.  And although various studies may be defined by
different degrees of material, the visual representation can
never constitute a definite application of ideas.  The intention
and clarity of each drawing can be questioned and only suggests
continuing visual potential.  Search and discovery practice that
is progressively self-defining reveals adventurous and
independent activity while increasing the individual's
sensitivity and visual awareness.  Drawing from life in itself is
a definition of continual change - of self, and self in relation
to a larger world context.

The goals of the course are to develop through experience, by
trial and error, the student's visual imagination and
understanding.

Assignments, Tests, Grades:  Generally assignments will be given
for the following class period for that subject.  Out of class
work should be completed before the class begins for which the
assignment is due.  There will be midterm and final reviews.
Grades will be based on effort, productivity and quality of work.

No more than 2 cuts are allowed or your grade will be affected.

Texts/Materials:  Materials will be purchased by students.  Cost
is approximately $25 to $30.

Frequency of Scheduling:  Every semester.