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Catalog description

Semester course; 1 lecture and 3 studio hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: ARTF 131 . Enrollment is restricted to communication arts majors. Students will study and practice drawing from direct observation, using the human figure as the primary means to understand proportion, volume and spatial relationships. Course content includes skeletal structure, basic anatomy and the physical dynamics of the figure. A variety of drawing media are explored and assignments draw on historical and contemporary uses of the figure in art.