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Drawing the Fantastic Figure

Increase your figure drawing skills. Focusing on anatomy, exaggeration, and the human form, you’ll create a set of portfolio-quality pieces that bring your imagination to life. Merge live models, photo references, and classical and modern approaches to enhance your character development.

Advanced Design Studio III – Integrated Design Concepts

Engage in integrated building design from early concept to final detail. You’ll participate in an investigative and analytical process that employs multiple building systems, assemblies, services, variables, and performance factors to explore ways where design and construction are interconnected to successfully complete a sophisticated integrated architectural design project.

Photoshop and Lightroom for Photographers

Learn to organize, edit, and create finished images using innovative tools in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. You will gain asset management, RAW processing, image editing, color correction, and print preparation skills using the latest release of Adobe CC.

Anatomy for Artists

Understand the skeletal and muscular systems of the human body. You’ll investigate the complexities of the human form to enhance your figurative drawing skills.

Chiaroscuro

Apply classical drawing principles to render a 3D form. You’ll dive deep into the five-value system of tonal rendering, composition, value pattern, variation of form, cast shadow edges, and light and shadow relationships.

Figurative Concepts

Master your ability to draw proportionally accurate figures, both nude and clothed, for entertainment art. You’ll study anatomy, proportion, foreshortening, construction, movement and gesture, making simple still lifes and tonal self-portraits.

Ecorche

Learn skeletal construction and musculature by sculpting an anatomical representation of the human body with the skin removed. Using plasteline figures, you’ll explore morphology, structural concepts, and rhythmic proportion. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 632.)

Visual Storytelling

Discover the power of visual storytelling by studying the work of great directors and cinematographers. You will make numerous short films demonstrating a variety of pictorial concepts, refining your visual vocabulary. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 641.)

Quality of Light

Communicate using light. Learn practical skills using various light shaping tools and industry equipment. Explore the visual impact of your photos by adjusting the color, direction, and quality of light.

Photography Principles and Techniques

Explore the technical and creative side of photography in this foundational skill-building class. You will learn camera operations through technical exercises, and will receive an introduction to lighting, exposure and composition through unique image assignments. Current trends and digital technologies necessary for professional photographers are discussed and explored.