ARTS 2324 - Life Drawing II

This studio course builds upon skills developed in Life Drawing I, emphasizing personal style and individual expression. Further experimentation with various media and techniques will be explored while drawing from a live model. Core Curriculum Course. 3 credit (2 lecture, 4 lab).

None. Recommended, but not required, is Life Drawing I.

Course Purpose 

To provide each student with the opportunity to further develop observation techniques required to draw from life. To provide each student with specific drawing media experiences, to teach the student original problem-solving in terms of drawing media and to teach the ability to develop a theme revolving around a specific idea or image. Good composition will also be stressed. This course will examine the interdependence of medium and image.

Core Competencies

This course fulfills the following core intellectual competencies:  reading, writing, speaking, listening, critical thinking and computer literacy.  A variety of teaching and testing methods are used to assess these competencies.

Please contact the Fine Arts office at the HCCS campus near you.

Central Campus		713-718-6600		(Gladys Bel, Michael Golden, Serge Kovalchuk)
Northeast, Northline Center		713-718-8089		(Darryl Lauster)
Northwest, Town & Country		713-718-5674		(Stan Kaminski, David Swaim)
Southeast, Eastside		713-718-7203		(Michael Cherry, June Woest)
Southwest, Stafford		713-718-7700		(Cynthia Millis, Pat Porcynaluk)

Required: none

This course meets for 6 hours each week in a 2 hour lecture and 4 hour lab format.
Students can expect to incure the cost of their own art supplies, approximating $100.00.

Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the appropriate Disability Support Service Counselor at the beginning of each semester. Faculty are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office.

The HCCS policy on scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion:

1.  Cheating on a test includes:

• Copying from another student's test paper; using during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
• Collaborating with another student during a test without authority;
• Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or part the contents of an unadministered test;
• Bribing another person to obtain a test that is to be administered.

2.  Plagiarism means the appropriation of another's work and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one's own written work offered for credit.

3.  Collusion means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.

Possible punishments for academic dishonesty may include a grade of 0 or F on the particular assignment, failure in the course, and/or recommendation for probation or dismissal from the College System.

Students are expected to attend classes regularly. Student's are responsible for course content covered during their absences, and it is the student's responsibility to consult with instructors for make-up assignments.  A student may be dropped from a course for excessive absences after the student has accumulated absences in excess of 12.5% of the hours of instruction (including lecture and laboratory time).

While each faculty member may weight the exams, assignments, and projects independently, the Fine Arts faculty, in general, adhere to the overall HCCS grade policy:

The grade of "I" (incomplete) is conditional. A student receiving an "I" must arrange with the instructor to complete the course work within six months of the end of the incomplete term.  After the deadline, the "I" becomes an "F."  All "I"s must be changed to grades prior to graduation.

Drop or Withdrawal Policies

A student may drop a course or withdraw from the college by following the procedure outlined by the Campust Director.  Should circumstances prevent a student from appearing in person to withdraw, withdrawal may be complete by writing to the Registrar's Office.  A drop or withdrawal request will not be accepted by telephone.  A student who ceases to attend a class without officially dropping or without withdrawing, will be given a grade of "F" for non-attendance.  A semester-hour student who fails to attend classes by the twelfth class day of a regular term will be administratively withdrawn from the class roll.  Students who officially withdraw from a course during the first twelve days of a regular semester will not received a grade and the course will not appear in their permanent records.  Students withdrawing from a course after this period and prior to the deadline designated in the college calendar will receive a "W".  A student may not withdraw from a course during the last two weeks prior to the final examination period.

ARTS 2324- Life Drawing II

Objectives and Requirements

By the end of the semester, the student who passes with a final grade of C or above will have demonstrated the ability to:  

• Complete and comprehend the objectives of all graded assignments
• Attend class regularly, missing no more than 12.5 % of instruction (12 hours)
• Arrive at class promptly and with the required supplies for that day�s session
• Participate in the shared responsibilities for studio clean-up
• Exhibit safe studio habits
• Be prepared for and participate in class critiques
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate orally in clear, coherent, and persuasive language
• Demonstrate the ability to use computer-based technology in communicating, solving problems, and acquiring information
• Complete a minimum of 1000 works in a combination of writing assignments and/or projects
• Demonstrate the ability to present works of exhibition quality
• Advance the skills acquired in Life Drawing I
• Complete and present for critique a body of work which demonstrates knowledge of advance life drawing techniques in a variety of media and on a variety of surfaces
• Complete a sketchbook which includes examples of anatomical studies in addition to class sketches
• Complete a series of drawings based on a selected theme or concept
• Complete a series of drawings based on the student's understanding of historical and contemporary aspects of the drawn figure.

The student will meet the expectations of each faculty member's independent policy on late work and make-up exams.

ARTS 2324- Life Drawing II

Description of Course Content

Further experimentation with a variety of media and expressive mark making and continued analytical study of the figure will be explored.  The student will build a body of work through class drawings and independent research that illustrates his ability to generate multiple solutions to a theme and consider interaction of media, image selection, composition, and spatial manipulation. Instruction will include discussions of anatomical structure and the relationships between form and movement and it will provide the stimulus to engage the student in active dialogue about his work and the work of fellow students as well as historical and contemporary trends of the figure in art.

Class time might include lecture, demonstration, slide presentations, studio work, field trips and critiques.

Sample Weekly Calendar

1. Orientation, materials list, grading policies, syllabus; introduce project 1

2. Studio work

3. Studio work

4. Critique project 1; introduce project 2

5. Studio work

6. Studio work

7. Critique project 2; introduce project 3

8. Studio work

9. Studio work

10. Critique project 3; introduce project 4

11. Studio work

12. Studio work

13. Critique project 4; introduce project 5

14. Student show preparation; studio work

15. Studio work

16. Final critique and comprehensive clean up

Student exhibits, faculty exhibits, visiting artists, visiting scholars, student scholarships, and student organizations are part of all HCCS Fine Arts departments.  Please contact the Fine Arts office at the HCCS campus near you for more information.

Central Campus		713-718-6600		(Gladys Bel, Michael Golden, Serge Kovalchuk)
Northeast, Northline Center		713-718-8089		(Darryl Lauster)
Northwest, Town & Country		713-718-5674		(Stan Kaminski, David Swaim)
Southeast, Eastside		713-718-7203		(Michael Cherry, June Woest)
Southwest, Stafford		713-718-7700		(Cynthia Millis, Pat Porcynaluk)