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Drawing Ideas: Developing Your Sketchbook

ART-40447

10 Weeks | Live Online

Drawing in your sketchbook regularly is one of the best ways to improve your drawing skills and to exercise your creativity, as well as develop and record ideas for larger drawings and paintings. Great ideas spring from sincere observation of the world around us. Classes will meet weekly to draw a variety of different objects. Weekly assignments between classes will help maintain your momentum. One final drawing or painting will be assigned, using any element observed in your sketchbook. Instruction includes demonstrations as well as individual and group critiques.

Quarters Offered: Spring | Live Online
Course Fee: $325
Course Length: 10 weeks
Prerequisite: Drawing I: Focus on Perception (ART-40166) or equivalent experience.
Note: Elective for Art and the Creative Process professional certificate. 

Materials: Mixed media paper pad, alcohol-based marker set, colored pencil set (Faber-Castell or Prismacolor), drawing pencils, eraser, Uniball Signo white gel pen, Sakura Pigma micron set, professional watercolor paint set (Grumbacher or Winsor & Newton), watercolor brushes

Course Information

3.00 units
TBD

Course sessions

Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5760 or ahl@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.