Drawing is the foundation for all the visual arts. This course will start you on your path to convincingly being able to render three-dimensional forms. You will learn to observe, understand and convey the effects of light, gravity, gesture, mass and mood on objects and the human body using a variety of drawing materials.

Introduction to Sketching And Drawing

This course offers the true drawing beginners the opportunity to discover their skills to capture, create sand complete an artwork. Open to new and starting artists, the classes will introduce the students to basic mark-making skills, pictorial strategies and design arrangements, using primarily pencil, ink and charcoals. Previous drawing studies and training is not necessary!

This course offers the true drawing beginners the opportunity to discover their skills to capture, create and complete an artwork. Open to new and starting srtists, the classes will introduce the students to basic mark-making skills, pictorial strategies and design arrangements, using primarily pencil, ink and charcoals. Previous studies and training not necessary.

Introduction to Comic Book Illustration 101C The course examines the fundamentals in comic strip or open-page drawing for newspapers, magazines, posters or books. Studies include the human figure, some animal or pet anatomy, familiar objects and social environments, in the context of a narrative or message. The program also incorporates the basics of caricature and cartooning. Class works will use pencils, ink, and colour, as they apply to media adaptations and transfers. A working background or previous studies in drawing is necessary.

The course builds on the fundamentals of drawing as the art of seeing, and moves forward to examine the visual elements as channels of creative expression. The work covers intensive exercises and projects on line, shape, value and space through their expressive, conceptual and developmental stages. The program pushes the boundaries of drawing media and tools, to discover more opportunities for achieving feeling and form in the drawing product.

Explore a wide range of drawing styles and employ them to achieve a desired out come. Become comfortable with drawing as a way of capturing images, recording ideas, and planning pieces of work to be done in other media. Be capable of drawing objects in proper perspective. Improve their observational powers and use them to explore their subject matter in a new way.

Students will continue to develop their drawing skills by exploring a wide range of both subject matter and drawing materials. Emphasis will be placed on creating expressive drawings that move students' mastery of craft and powers of expression to a new level. Pre-requisite: Level one drawing.

The masters of Expressionist painting and sculpture created brilliant drawings of great variation and innovation which always served as a foundation for their major works. To understand the developments in the plastic arts of the 20th Century one must explore the drawing techniques used with such remarkable effect. This course will introduce you to these techniques. You will more fully develop your cognitive capabilities which will in turn facilitate and hone draughting skills. The drawings of Van Gogh, Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Bomberg, Giacometti, Moore, Kitaj, Auerbach and others will be discussed. Various materials will be used including graphite, charcoal, oil sticks, ink and more. The course will consist of both conceptual and live model drawings.

Explore body language and creative stylization using the live model. Examine human anatomy as a rich source of visual rhythm, energy and expressive experimentation. Focus on pictorial gesture, sketching and rendering strategies using charcoal, pencil, pen and colour. Open to those who have taken advanced drawing or its equivalent.

Using live models, this course concentrates on body language and artistic stylization. Your experimental figure drawings will inspire you to explore the human form as a rich source of design, rhythm, energy and abstract adaptations. Employing pencil, charcoal, pen and brush in black and color, class exercises and projects direct you to observe pictorial gesture and enhance your sketching and rendering skills. Open to students who have strong drawing or illustration background.

Discover your individual signature in Drawing.  This specialized, highly- mentored Atelier class will be facilitated by VCA’s Master Drawing faculty member Victor Arcega MFA. He will inspire you to develop your own graphic strategies for sketching and drawing, select your own image/icon preferences and explore how they interact in a narrative development suitable for a variety of media: in print, video and digital forms. He will assist you to stretch your talents to make your unique personal mark. 

The course provides graduate candidates  advance concepts of image development, and pushes the boundaries of the drawing media and expressive mark-making. Students use drawing to synchronize their energy toward stylization, contemporary experimentation and personal vision.

Using live models and slides, this course focuses on body language and creative stylization.  This advanced program in figure-drawing enables you to study human anatomy as a rich source of rhythm, energy and expressive experimentation. Special attention is directed towards pictorial gesture, sketching, and rendering skills using pencil, charcoal and pen. Prerequisite: Second year drawing or equivalent.