This document outlines a class syllabus for a drawing course that focuses on line, shape, form, and value. The syllabus includes 18 lessons that introduce students to various drawing techniques like contour drawing, upside down drawing, value scales, shading, and facial feature rendering. It also covers calligraphy basics, decorated letters, and using handwriting as an art form. The goal is to build students' observational and technical drawing skills through exercises that make them focus on visual relationships and break complex drawings into component parts.

2. From Signature to Portraiture; Who Am I? Mark Making, Line, Shape, Form, and Value

3. CLASS SYLLABUS: (subject to various time constraints, early dismissals, etc.) 1: Pretest (to assess what skills, schema, and iconography each student brings to the table) Students will draw their own face using a mirror, a person from memory, a house, and their own hand. These will be put into their portfolio for later use.

4. 2: Mark Making Students will use mood and music to evoke emotion and express that in line Students will understand qualities available in line Aggressive: heavy, strong, emphatically stated Analytical: probing, questioning, investigating, measuring Blurred: soft, fuzzy, smudged Calligraphing : free flowing, fluid, natural, organic Constricted: angular, tense Scribbled : circular, fast Mechanical: unvaried, no feeling, same width throughout Gestural: quickly describing movement Organizational: providing structure Lyrical: graceful, more decorative Implied: slower gestural between blur and gestural, just a suggestion

5. 3: Handwriting Students will learn that handwriting is an artform and like drawing a line with dozens of variations for each person Fastest, best, printed (cursive charts will always be available)

20. CLOSURE & ASSESSMENT: Students will fill out a rubric assessing their work during this unit