An introductory digital-media studio course in graphic design. Emphasis will be placed on the study of typography, illustration, and layout design, as well as the social, political, and historical impact of graphic design. Technical and theoretical issues pertinent to the field will be presented.
This course offers an overview of digital drawing fundamentals including drawing software, tablet drawing, and hybrid processes. It introduces the field of digital illustration through topics such as observational digital drawing, survey of line techniques, analog/digital interaction, and editorial illustration. Students will engage in both short-term formal drawing exercises and long-term illustration projects. Emphasis will be placed on digital drawing as both a fine art and graphic medium.
This course offers an overview of digital drawing fundamentals including drawing software, tablet drawing, and hybrid processes. It introduces the field of digital illustration through topics such as observational digital drawing, survey of line techniques, analog/digital interaction, and editorial illustration. Students will engage in both short-term formal drawing exercises and long-term illustration projects. Emphasis will be placed on digital drawing as both a fine art and graphic medium.
Students strengthen drawing skills through observation and in experimentation with process and strategy. Students gain a better understanding of design and composition in relationship to overall outcome of drawing and explore a range of drawing materials.
An intermediate level course designed for students to integrate personal research into image-making through a variety of drawing materials and processes. Students will build upon fundamental concepts and strategies of drawing and progress to experiment with a broad range of both traditional and innovative processes and subjects that will challenge and encourage the exploration of drawing in its multiple forms. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Nine studio hours per week.
Students will learn the skills necessary to create Lithography and Intaglio prints. Curriculum will focus on building a working knowledge of how both analog and digital stencils can be used to create edition able images. Undertaking several projects in each medium students will explore the use of printmaking as both a fine art and graphic medium.
This course builds upon the creative and technical lessons learned in A- S 310, Painting I. A-S 311 expands on approaches to the human form, technical painting applications and materials, and conceptual approaches. This course also introduces guided independent projects.
Concentrated painting experience stressing enlargement of formal understanding and personal expression.
A-S 305, Studio Lighting is an introductory course in lighting control in photography. This course provides a thorough background in basic techniques that students may apply to any discipline, with its primary emphasis upon the practice of the medium as a fine art. Students will receive technical instruction in types of lighting, exposure controls, lighting styles and working in a photographic lighting studio.
A-S 300 is an introductory course in digital photography as a creative tool. The primary emphasis is the practice of photography as fine art. This course also provides a thorough background in basic techniques that students may apply to any photographic discipline as well as historical and theoretical approaches to photography. Students receive technical instruction in the DSLR camera, lens choice, exposure controls, digital workflow, processing of digital files, output and presentation. Students must have a DSLR camera. Studio 9 hours per week.
