This course will assist students who are either currently completing or approaching their VCE years to develop a folio of drawings and paintings. An integral part of in this course is to assist students to develop and enhance their technical skills and understandings of the essential principles of art making.

Students will receive individual support with projects they are currently working on as part of their school curriculum and/ or folio preparation needs. Alternatively, staff will also provide individual support and assign students projects according to their needs.

This drawing course is designed for students who are interested in developing skills required to create animation concepts. The skills taught in this course include: figure drawing; character design; staging and background design; visual narrative and storyboarding.

Students will also learn to draw the human figure (from life and photo reference) both as static form and in motion. Students will be taught traditional methods of animation which will include techniques such as flip book work, and ink and paint drawn cels. Although digital work will not be directly taught in this class, the course aims to provide students with the foundational skills required for working with digital animation.

Unit 1: Character Design - In this first unit students will learn the key elements of character design. Students will begin by learning to draw the human skull; this will be followed by them learning about, and to draw, facial muscles and plane changes of the head. During the course of this unit, students will create a character; they will learn to draw facial expressions; and will create a small 3D sculpture for their character.