How to Draw - Lecture 3 (The Great Courses)

The lecture starts with discussing dividing the images into shapes and lines.  And practicing straight lines.  This is to help with the hand-eye coordination.

In this lecture, he does an overview of the course that takes the majority of the lecture.  He says it can be broken up into the following 5 sections:

• Introductory materials
• Line & formal language
• Linear perspective
• Value, texture, & color
• Figure
• Advanced approaches and projects

At the end of the overview he says the following:

• "It is equivalent what you cover at a university in 4 academic quarters.  The projects in just the final 2 lectures could extend well beyond that."

At the university that he teaches at has 5 credit hours per course per academic quarter.  That would indicate that "How to Draw" is equivalent to 20+ credit hours.

Possible courses that are covered in "How to Draw"
ART 190: Introduction to Drawing Link to course

• "Builds basic drawing skills, develops understanding of primary concepts which relate to drawing and develops an understanding of the grammar or syntax of two-dimensional language. Students move beyond their current knowledge and abilities and link new skills, concepts, and understandings to creative expressing."

ART 191: Color Studies Studio Link to course

• "Examination of color as a distinct visual phenomenon with investigations of its practical, theoretical, and illusionary aspects. Employs various media and materials in exercises and compositions that demonstrate properties of color structure, symbolism, and perception and the potential application to art and design."

ART 290: Beginning Drawing: The Figure Link to course

• "Introduction to the human figure as historically traditional subject matter as well as an important component in self expression. Covers proportion, foreshortening, and composition. Prerequisite: ART 190."

ART 390: Intermediate Drawing Link to course

ART 490: Advanced Drawing Link to course