Description
Fine Art elective: Integrated Drawing 1
In-person class Fridays, 9:00-10:30am and additionally approximately 2-3 hours of work to be done between meetings for half credit high school elective course in Fine Arts.  There is a 90-minute Flex Time block available following our class session where students can begin their Independent Work for the week.
Registration is for the Spring 2026 semester.Â
There are NO prerequisites for this course.
For high school students, this fulfills a half credit elective in Fine Arts.
This is the first half of a 2-part series but nobody is required to take the 2nd part series. This half of the course will cover:
- Basic perceptual skills
- Lines
- Switching to the right side of the brain
- Contour drawings
- Foreshortened view
- The basic unit
- Negative space
- Perspective and proportion
There is no color or self-portrait work in this course. Those topics are covered in Integrated Drawing 2.
 Students are welcome to purchase the following anywhere but links are given to show the product image and help with accessibility. All other supplies will be provided.
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook by Betty Edwards (This is the foundation of this semester’s work and some of the second level course. It can be purchased together with the main text but that’s not necessary.)
- pad of inexpensive drawing paper at least 50 sheets
- #4B graphite drawing pencil (a regular #2 writing pencil will do if needed)
- eraser (this is where a good, white eraser might serve you well because the eraser itself won’t leave a mark. The Staedtler white vinyl eraser is really great this way: https://amzn.to/4nZ11XT )
- pencil sharpener
- permanent marker
- nonpermanent black felt-tip marker (like a Flair medium point/0.7mm tip)
- set of colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (12 pc) is a solid starter set)
- set of 12 (or more) pastel chalks (also called pastel crayons, but not oil pastels. Caran D’ache or Lyra are good choices but any will work)
At home, students will need access to the internet (home or library) to access their online course, look up information, related published materials and/or videos and do work through the Canvas learning management system. Some videos provided by illuminat-ED will be subscription-based and issued by illuminat-ED as needed. Some videos will be freely available.
Combined with our live class time, this is a total of 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 hours/week for a course total of 56-72 hours. This equates to one half credit of elective study in Fine Arts using the Carnegie unit methodology.
Also, as art is an individual endeavor and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, students are graded based on their obvious attempt to do what the assignment asks vs. the “beauty” of the final product.
