Humanities Seminar (395-0-20)

Topic

Drawing for Media

Instructors

Ozge Samanci
847/467-0483
AMS 213

Meeting Info

Louis Hall 118: Tues 10:00AM - 12:50PM

Overview of class

Drawing for Media

This course will teach basic drawing and design skills to storytellers and humanities scholars. Participants will practice with both analog tools (drawing and collage) and digital tools (Photoshop and Illustrator) and learn to combine analog and digital tools to create static images for telling stories or communicating research. Course will be particularly useful for participants who would like to follow a path in animation, comics-graphic novels, design, photography, or cinematography. This course will also introduce a path for creating comics essays as an alternative to writing academic papers. Participants will keep a journal, make weekly design and drawing assignments, participate in critique sessions, and make an individual presentation about a design work. Final project may include a comics story, storyboard or a comics essay derived from research. No drawing or software skills required for taking this course, but participants must be willing to practice drawing through a range of assignments.

Teaching Method

Class participation, weekly assignments, presentations, final project.

Evaluation Method

Student work will be graded based on their mindful time investment following the assignment descriptions.

Class Materials (Required)

-Ivan Brunetti, Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, Yale University Press; Reprint edition (March 29, 2011) Book is available as an ebook through NU library. $0

-Adobe Creative Cloud will be supplied by RTVF.

-Analog Art Materials will be supplied by RTVF.

Associated Classes

LAB - Louis Hall 118: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM