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Drawing II / Experimental Media
ARTS 240 / MEDST 281
Beloff & Sholette: FALL 2021
SYNCHRONOUS ONLINE: MONDAYS 1:40 – 3:10
This hybrid (synchronous/asynchronous *) class ARTS 254/ MEDST 281 class focuses on drawing (including photo-montage and college) within various experimental media projects including graphic novels, animation and filmmaking. No prerequisites are required. . Students are expected to do their creative work outside of this class on their own self-scheduled time. This class is taught by Professor Sholette from the Art Department, and Professor Beloff from the Media Studies Department. storytelling. No experience in moving making or drawing skills necessary. Students will be responsible for supplying their own drawing materials, smartphone and video editing software.
* IMPORTANT: the two in-person classes are only required for Media Studies students, not Art Dept students *
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COURSE
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DETAILS
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COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
· Gain practice and experience drawing from life in a real world setting.
Investigate various ways artists have approached visually representing everyday scenes and life situations using drawing on paper.
· Recognize a variety of techniques and styles used in the art of drawing and for creating sequential narrative.
· Learn to write, edit and rewrite a short, clear description of events for your graphic novel and video story.
· Demonstrate an understanding of advanced drawing skills and to applied these to actual creative challenges.
· Practice and apply discursive evaluation (orally) during peer-to-peer group critiques of homework.
· Improve cognitive and practical knowledge of visual representation in coordination with motor skills
· Develop a rich vocabulary of examples and ideas related to drawing, graphics and time-based art.
· Evaluations and critiques using extensive examples from the history of art will take place throughout the semester.
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Email us here:
Virtual Office hours by appointment: 1.) following immediately after ZOOM class, or 2) alternately:
Beloff: Thursday 11am, please email for appointment
Sholette: Tuesdays 12 PM (please email first for appointment)
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Grades:
Drawings of Daily Life 20%
A special day 35%
Drama of Daily Life 35%
Attendance and class participation 10%
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YOU WILL RECEIVE A LINK VIA EMAIL FOR ACCESS TO YOUR OWN STUDENT WORK FOLDER If not let us know!
** Please put a note about yourself and/or a picture of yourself into your folder asap. Thanks **
ZOOM COMES VIA EMAIL
** For those students who joined the class as Media Studies 281 – THIS IS A HYBRID CLASS
There will be two in person meetings outdoors and masked on the Queens College campus. We will meet rain or shine at the covered space at the top of the amphitheater. On September 27 and November 15.
Students who are taking the class as Art 240 are welcome to join us, but it is not required.
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SYLLABUS
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** Note: attendance is taken at beginning of each meeting **
** VERY IMPORTANT: 1.) PLEASE put your name and date on all uploaded files; 2.) PLEASE be sure writings are transformed into GOOGLE DOCS and 3.) PLEASE be sure you open the sharing to EDIT so we can comment on your work. 4.) ALL WORK is due the Saturday before class by 6PM.
A PRINTABLE COPY OF THE SYLLABUS IS HERE CLICK
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CLASS ONE – Monday Aug 30 2021
Introduction to class projects:
WELCOME TO OUR CLASS: Today we will review the syllabus and the materials and software that you will need for our three projects including: 1.) “Drawings of Daily Life,” which has multiple due dates 2.) “A Special Day,” which is your 6-page graphic novel; and “A Drama of Daily Life,” which is your (approx) 5 minute video movie involving miniature movie sets, puppets and animated objects due at the end of the semester. For this class we ask you focus on starting with simple, clear pencil drawings as the first stage for any project. This is followed by discussion, revisions, and then adding stronger ink outlines and/or colors. * But please note: we want you to focus on observing and sketching from actual people, settings, events, animals, plants and other actually lived experiences. Examples of these will be presented throughout the class, but what WE ASK YOU NOT DO, is to sketch in the style of Anime characters or cartoons.
* In some cases, you might also consider creating a series of photo-collage images: but please discuss this with us first.
Here is a basic tutorial for drawing a figure:
USEFUL TIP: MAKE A COPY OF YOUR DRAWN GRAPHIC NOVEL!
Scan your drawings (or make a very well light and high resolution photo) and print several copies of each page in order to experiment with color without messing up your originals. IF, IF you can access a high quality printed with heavy paper (28-32 LB weight or Water Color paper or Bristol Card Stock at Staples, UPS, Fed X etc..) then this is even better, but only if you have access! (sadly, the Digital Lab in Klapper Hall would normally be our go-to printing shop of course!)
Will Eisner ink drawing
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
HOMEWORK
Start thinking about a subject for your graphic novel. Upload two Drawing of Daily life to your Google folder BEFORE Sunday September 12
Examples of drawings of daily life from Edouard Manet, Reginald Marsh, Edward Hopper: CLICK HERE
** VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME AND DATE ON EACH FILE YOU SUBMIT **
CLASS TWO – Monday Sept 13
Encourage students to both make and collect documentation for their short graphic novel.
Explain that we are looking for realistic drawing, not based on Anime characters or cartoons.
Students present their ideas and for a short graphic novel about something that happened to them or to a friend or family member.
Each student will read a short written description of their story and present documentation that will help them.
HOMEWORK
Upload three paragraph proposal of your Graphic Novel BEFORE Sunday September 19. This should include documentation of your story, that is photos of the people who are in the graphic novel and the locations.
PRESENTATION
Christian Cooper’s graphic novel about Birding While Black
Discussion of Graphic Novels about daily life presenting work by Will Eisner, Ben Katchor, Nikolai Maslov.
PRESENTATION BY PROFESSOR BELOFF MONDAY SEPT 21 2020
SOME TIPS FOR LAYING OUT YOUR PAGES:
1. you don’t have to fill the page: an image can go across two pages
2. don’t confine yourself to a small box (unless that is what your story requires)
3. make good use of closeup shots of what you are showing the reader
4. plan your drawings and design with the foreground and background in mind (and also perhaps a middle ground)
5. give your drawings and your design a sense of ENERGY
6. Use different angles and views to liven things up!
7. Think about the contrast of lights and darks, and drawing textures
Example of a storyboard for your graphic novel
CLASS THREE – Monday Sept 20
Review of drawings of daily life part one. Review of proposals for the graphic novel.The class will discuss and provide feedback to one another and offer suggestions and so forth to each project.
Presentation on artist’s drawings of daily life situations including works by Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence, Diego Rivera, Charlotte Salomon, as well as Goya’s Friar Pedro and the robber series.
A presentation on the work of Romaine Bearden & other artists TBA.
HOMEWORK
Upload one drawing of daily life BEFORE Sunday September 26
Upload storyboard of your graphic novel BEFORE Sunday September 26 A storyboard is a quick outline of all the drawings you plan to do, on each page. You should also include the text that goes with each image.
PRESENTATION
CLASS FOUR – Monday Sept 27
SPECIAL DAY: In Person Drawing Session, outdoors on College Campus – bring sketchbooks, pencils etc. as well as all the drawings you have done so far (Media Studies required/ Art Studio optional).
Homework
Upload two pages of pencil drawings for your Graphic novel BEFORE Sunday October 3
CLASS FIVE – Monday Oct 4
HOMEWORK
Upload completed pages of pencil drawings for your graphic novel BEFORE Sunday October 3
PRESENTATION
Presentation on Jacob Lawrence’s series Great Migration:
Presentation on early Soviet Children’s books
Screening of “The Little Screw”
Charlotte Salomon online drawings – see PROGRAM below:
CLASS SIX – Mon OCT 18
HOMEWORK
Upload all 6 pages of your FINAL drawings for the graphic novel bevero Sunday Oct 17
Presentation of completed pencil drawings of graphic novels: Review of all 6 pages of your pencil drawings for “A Special Day” graphic novel. Discussion of how to ink in and color-in drawings.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Presentation on Manga Kamishibai
Demonstration on watercolor painting
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FOR YOU TO EXPLORE ON YOUR OWN
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CLASS SEVEN – Mon OCT 25
HOMEWORK
Upload 2 pages of colored drawings of graphic novel BEFORE Sunday October 24
PRESENTATIONS
Screening “Hedgehog in the Fog”
Excerpt from stop motion animation “Lost Motion” by Janie Geiser
Screening of “Street of Crocodiles” by the Brothers Quay
Screening Boxcutter Collective at Great Small Works Online Toy Theater Festival
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CLASS EIGHT – Monday NOV 1
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HOMEWORK
Upload finished graphic novel BEFORE Sunday October 31
Review and class discussion of your FINAL full-color Graphic novels.
CLASS NINE – Monday NOV 8
HOMEWORK
Upload story outline for Drama of Daily Life BEFORE Sunday November 7
Upload one drawing of daily life BEFORE Sunday November 7
Review drawings and your story outline for “Drama of Daily Life.”
DEMONSTRATION
How to make a toy theater or Diorama.
How to do stop-motion animation.
Review miniature theater in progress and discuss next steps.
CLASS TEN – Monday NOV 15
Upload images of your diorama/stage-set/or visual imagery BEFORE Sunday Nov. 14
DEMONSTRATION
CLASS ELEVEN – Mon NOV 22
How to create motion pathways for animation.
miniature animation set: “Drawing II Anastasia Filipe”
DEMONSTRATION
How to edit still images and video in Premiere Pro.
CLASS TWELVE– Monday NOV 29
HOMEWORK
Upload YOUR WORK-IN-PROGRESS BY SUN. NOV 28TH
Review your work in progress and discuss next steps.
How to add sound to your animation.
DEMONSTRATION
* Download free sound effects: BBC Sound Effects Library.
How to add sound to your movie and export as an mp4 file.
CLASS THIRTEEN– Mon DEC 6
** VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME AND DATE ON EACH FILE YOU SUBMIT **
HOMEWORK
Upload FINISHED (or almost finished) movies BEFORE Sun. Dec. 5
SCREENINGS OF YOUR VIDEOS: “Drama of Daily Life.”
** VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME AND DATE ON EACH FILE YOU SUBMIT **
CLASS 14 – LAST CLASS – Mon DEC 13
HOMEWORK
Upload ALL OF YOUR PROJECTS BEFORE Sunday December 12TH
FINAL REVIEWS OF ALL OF YOUR WORK FROM THE ENTIRE CLASS.
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Mon DEC 13: FINAL WORK DEADLINE
ALL PROJECTS DUE – NO EXCEPTIONS.
By MONDAY May 20th: all of your completed work from all 3 projects is in your folder so we can grade you, and IF YOU CAN then put your final video on YouTube or Vimeo so we can share with future classes -ALL PROJECT DEADLINE NO EXCEPTIONS.
Presentation of your completed Graphic novels.
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