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Course Description
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AP Drawing
This course has been developed to accommodate students who have expressed an interest in completing either the AP® Drawing Portfolio Exam or the AP 2-D Design Portfolio. Therefore, all content meets the requirements as stated in the student portfolio submission. Students will create 24 artworks in this class. They will discover personal
directions,particular studio strengths, and visual ideation interests. Through a range of specific assignments, students will be involved with in-class assignments and the development of individual thematic portfolio pieces.
directions,particular studio strengths, and visual ideation interests. Through a range of specific assignments, students will be involved with in-class assignments and the development of individual thematic portfolio pieces.
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs):
ELOs covered in this course will focus on mastery of the following skills:
- 1.A Generate possibilities for investigation.
- 1.B Describe how inquiry guides investigation through art and design.
- 1.C Describe how materials, processes, and ideas in art and design relate to context.
- 1.D Interpret works of art and design based on materials, processes, and ideas used.
- 1.E Investigate materials, processes, and ideas.
- 2.A Formulate questions or areas of inquiry that guide a sustained investigation through art and design.
- 2.B Conduct a sustained investigation through art and design that demonstrates practice, experimentation, and revision guided by questions or inquiry.
- 2.C Make works of art and design that demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas.
- 2.D Make works of art and design that demonstrate 2-D, 3-D, or drawing skills.
- 3.A Identify, in writing, questions or inquiry that guided a sustained investigation through art and design.
- 3.B Describe, in writing, how a sustained investigation through art and design shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision guided by questions or inquiry.
- 3.C Identify, in writing, materials, processes, and ideas used to make works of art and design.
- 3.D Describe how works of art and design demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas.
- 3.E Describe how works of art and design demonstrate 2-D, 3-D, or drawing skills.
- 3.F Present works of art and design for viewer interpretation.
The Elements of Art and Principles of Design
Line - Shape - Form - Value - Space - Color - Texture - Rhythm - Balance -
Emphasis(contrast) - Proportion - Gradation - Harmony - Variety - Movement