Upon completion of the course, we hope you will be able to:

• Have a developing ability in drawing.
• Show increasing inventiveness in your approach to materials and tools.
• Have an improved visual memory.
• Have a greater understanding of what drawing is and might be.
• Have more confidence in your potential as an artist and a growing sense of self-reliance.
• Decide on the nature and direction of your future studies and art practice.

What you will study

• Part One introduces you to the huge variety of drawn lines or marks, what they mean, their differences and possibilities. By experimenting with materials and tools, you’ll begin to appreciate how you can manipulate marks to achieve different effects.
• Part Two will introduce you to the use of light and how it can affect the way objects or images are seen. Tonal variation is a basic drawing skill that will help you depict light and shade across any surface.
• Part Three explores the illusion of form, creating the illusion of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface and the principles that you can apply to help you when representing real objects on paper.
• Part Four turns your attention to negative and positive space; the space that exists between and around those objects, such as might be found between vases in a still life arrangement.
• Part Five gives you the option to begin exploring mediums that have drawn your interest. You’ll be introduced to print, storyboarding and photomontage, and college and text.

At the end of each section you will submit an assignment to your tutor. The assignments will give you a chance to assimilate your learning for each part of the course. Your tutor will then provide formative feedback to further your development. This can be a written report or video tutorial.

There is no examination at the end of this course.