IL 1200 - Freshman Drawing Portfolio Review for Illustrators

Credits: 3

The Illustration Department has a unique drawing portfolio requirement for first-year Illustration students. This course helps each student to submit a drawing portfolio that demonstrates their technical control and drawing ability. This portfolio is composed of a sketchbook and a handful of drawings, that may include still-life renderings, figure drawings, and/or perspective drawings. Upon successful completion of this course, students will submit a quality portfolio that showcases their personal practice of sketching, the ability to depict basic forms with accurate light/shadow within a composition, the ability to depict accurate human proportions, and an accurate sense of depth and objects in perspective.

Prerequisites: FD 1370 - Life Drawing I and IL 1510 - Perspective

This course is a prerequisite for the rest of the Illustration Program. Students must pass this course to continue in their Illustration degree.

Notes: This course is pass/fail. Students who do not pass the review must register for the course again, revise their work, and resubmit their portfolio in subsequent terms.

Freshman/Sophomore portfolio review included.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate a personal practice of sketching (ideating, composing, drawing, observing, thinking, and researching, etc.) in some form of a sketchbook.
Accurately depict basic forms (cubes, cylinders, spheres, etc.) with the properties of light/shadow (core shadow, highlight, etc.).
Depict accurate human proportions from observation.
Use linear perspective to communicate an accurate sense of depth and objects in pictorial space.
Capture and prepare high-quality digital representations of physical work and curate them into a portfolio.

IL1200 Course Learning Outcomes Rubric

Required Textbooks:
Drawing Is Magic
Discovering Yourself in a Sketchbook
9781617691379
John Hendrix
Harry N. Abrams
2015-03-24