Formerly MBI Graduate program: ME:120.710
Pen & Ink "Bootamp"
Offered: First Quarter, First Semester
Instructors: Timothy H. Phelps, Professor, Lead Instructor
Competency in pen and ink rendering developed by sequential exercises and projects. Offered in conjunction with Vector Illustration.
summary
Students acquire, through exercises and supervised projects, sufficient mental and manual skill over pen and ink rendering to produce illustrations demonstrating individual style, reproducible quality, and instructional impact.
Course Description
Objectives
- sufficient mental and manual skill over pen and ink rendering
- heirachy of line
- texture, light on form, perspective
- demonstrate individual style, reproducible quality, and instructional impact.
Student Evaluations
- 1:1 faculty-student interface
- Single project evaluation form
- Scheduled class critiques
- Final grade
Assignments
- Exercises
- Anatomy illustration translation from tone
- “Think White”
- Anatomy illustration (from cadaver dissection)
Resources
- Department library
- Numerous books on pen & ink technique
- Examples from the Brödel Archives
- Anatomical specimens
Student Artwork
Unity Projects
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