Restriction(s): Restricted to students enrolled in the following programs: BFA Animation and Illustration; BA Fashion Design and Merchandising; BA Fashion Studies; BFA Illustration; BFA Product Design; BA Visual Arts; BFA Visual Communication Design; Fashion Design minor; Fashion Merchandising minor; Visual Arts minor. An introduction to drawing the human figure. Students in this course will spend the majority of their time drawing from nude models (of varied gender expressions) in a studio setting. Most classes will follow the traditional figure drawing format of beginning with quick gesture drawings, with poses gradually increasing in length of time, and ending with a single sustained pose of an hour or more. The students will be introduced to a wide range of ideas, concepts, stratagems, and materials related to the drawing of the human figure. Ideas and drawing approaches will be illustrated by looking at the visual examples of artworks by both past and present figurative artists. A brief historical overview of various visions of the human image will be presented, as will an introduction of human anatomy for artists. Concurrent with ideas about proportion, foreshortening, scale, and anatomical construct, ideas about line quality, chiaroscuro, and the figure in differing spatial constructs will be explored. Although weekly thematic ideas will be presented, most classes will include an interweaving and repetition of a wide range of concepts.