Instructor Contact

Inna Razumova, MFA

Email: Please contact me via "inbox" feature of Canvas. In case when Canvas is down or there is some technical issues, you can use this email irazumov@ccsf.edu

• You can visit my [CCSF instructional website outside of Canvas] 

Communication Plan

• I will respond to your messages within 24 hours during the workweek (Monday-Friday) excluding holidays or if you are notified otherwise.
• Your work will be reviewed, and I will comment on it within 72 hours of the due date unless you are informed otherwise. You will receive a graded rubric for each discussion, quiz, and assignment. I will provide more thorough feedback in written or audio format earlier in the semester so that you can improve on assignments as we progress.
• I will participate in the weekly discussions and review all students work, but will not necessarily comment on each student's work. You will receive private comments on your submitted assignments.
• Office hours: CityZoom appointments. Please email to make an appointment with me 24 hrs in advance. There will be also scheduled office hours during the semester, please check your weekly announcements. Tutorial about how to book appointments 

Building Community

The heart of this class is the discussion forum. Each week you and your classmates will analyze and discuss the issues that come up in the material this week. Each time this class is offered, I am humbled by the thoughtfulness of all of you, your posts, and your responses to each other inform my understanding of the topics. We learn from each other, from our varied experiences, from our different world views. I look forward to participating in discussions with you.

Instructor Announcements 

The instructor will post announcements on the “Instructor Announcements” page in Canvas every week. Canvas notifies students according to their preferred Notification Preferences (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as soon as the instructor creates an Announcement. 

Q&A Discussion

A “Q&A Discussion” is located in your course, accessible as a Quick Link from the Home Page, and pinned in Discussions. This discussion is for you to ask for the assistance of your classmates or of the instructor.

Art 132 has 4 levels (A, B, C, and D) that meet at the same time and will be engaged in the same online activities. Each level has different learning outcomes and the level and complexity of work produced during the semester is expected to reflect those objectives. 

Art 132A Beginning Figure Drawing 

Introduction to the basic concepts of drawing the nude figure from life. Students develop a practical understanding of surface anatomy and proportions using a variety of media and techniques, acquire perceptual and critical thinking skills, and are introduced to the expressive potential of figurative drawing.

Prerequisites: 

Art130A Basic Drawing or Portfolio review by the instructor. Please refer to email sent to you by Anna Asebedo, Dept.Chair, about the process. Art 130 Basic Drawing is a prerequisite for Figure Drawing. Students who haven't had a basic level drawing class, or the equivalent will be dropped after the first week of classes, so please contact me if that is your situation.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Employ fundamental sighting and drawing methods to effectively draw the nude model from life.
2. Integrate a range of drawing media to convincingly depict the body in space.
3. Identify and represent major muscle groups and bone structures.
4. Organize effective figure-ground compositions using visual principles of design.
5. Identify basic historical, contemporary, and professional developments as they relate to figure drawing from diverse cultures.

Class Meetings

This class is fully online and will have a once-a-week synchronous Zoom model sessions every Thursday from 3:10-6pm. Please contact me asap if you have any technical problems/limitations with using Zoom. The rest of the learning materials such as lectures, video tutorials, discussion, and homework assignments are available for asynchronous learning that will take an additional 4-6hr per week. Each assignment has a specific grading criteria and deadline. All of the online learning is under Modules menu.

132B Intermediate Figure Drawing

Building on the previously acquired basic knowledge of drawing the nude figure from life, intermediate students will further develop their understanding of concepts and techniques of figure drawing, continue with more in-depth study of anatomy and proportion, and start working with color and experimental mixed-media approaches.

Prerequisites: 

Art132A 

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Use basic figure drawing approaches to create experimental and expressive drawings.
2.  Identify and demonstrate the expressive qualities of various drawing media while further expanding figure drawing skills.
3.  Integrate concepts of proportions, shape, plane, and value to organize figure studies into more complex and effective compositions.
4.  Identify and classify major muscle groups and bone structures while integrating this knowledge to drawing the figure from life.
5. Apply basic color media techniques into figure studies.
6. Analyze and evaluate own work and works of peers during group critiques.

Class Meetings

This class is fully online and will have a once-a-week synchronous Zoom model sessions every Thursday from 3:10-6pm. Please contact me asap if you have any technical problems/limitations with using Zoom. The rest of the learning materials such as lectures, video tutorials, discussion, and homework assignments are available for asynchronous learning that will take an additional  4-6hr per week. Each assignment has a specific grading criteria and deadline. All of the online learning is under Modules menu.

Art 132C Advanced Figure Drawing

Building on a rigorous study of drawing the nude figure from life, students will focus on developing a self-directed creative process, leading to advanced-level exploration of contemporary art issues and media, while creating a series of related figurative compositions.

Prerequisites: 

Art132B 

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate and employ a variety of drawing media, techniques, and approaches to achieve successful and expressive figurative compositions.
2.  Propose and implement a plan for creative growth that integrates personal expressive goals with advanced figure drawing techniques and approaches.
3.  Create a series of figurative compositions towards building a body of work that emphasizes coherence, critical thinking, problem solving, and risk-taking.
4. Evaluate and revise one's own work in response to critiques that address technique, drawing and design principles, emotional and expressive content, and creative goals.
5. Identify historical, contemporary, and professional developments, trends, materials and approaches in figure drawing.

Class Meetings

This class is fully online and will have a once-a-week synchronous Zoom model sessions every Thursday from 3:10-6pm. Please contact me asap if you have technical problems/limitations with using Zoom. The rest of the learning materials such as lectures, video tutorials, discussion, and homework assignments are available for asynchronous learning that will take an additional 4-6hr per week. Each assignment has a specific grading criteria and deadline. All of the online learning is under Modules menu.

Art132D Special Topics

Students will integrate advanced figure drawing skills with a focus on Special Topics such as Portraiture, Narrative Art, Mixed Media or Figurative Mural Art, to develop a personal and expressive body of artwork in a medium of their choice.

Prerequisites: 

Art132C 

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Design a proposal for successfully completing a portfolio of drawings that meets the student's goals for creative growth.
   B. Relate advanced observational, expressive, and experimental figure drawing techniques to a medium of student's choice.
   C. Create a cohesive portfolio of drawings based on a predetermined special topic reflecting a personal and expressive approach to composition.
   D. Formulate a written artist statement that explains how the drawings relate to historical, contemporary, and professional developments in figure drawing and figurative art.

Class Meetings

This class is fully online and will have a once-a-week synchronous Zoom model sessions every Thursday from 3:10-6pm. Please contact me asap if you have technical problems/limitations with using Zoom. The rest of the learning materials such as lectures, video tutorials, discussion, and homework assignments are available for asynchronous learning that will take an additional 4-6hr per week. Each assignment has a specific grading criteria and deadline. All of the online learning is under Modules menu.

Course Web Site

Students will use the Canvas Learning Management system [for assignment instructions, submitting assignments, viewing classmates' work, sharing resources, and viewing grades]. I can help with the course material and with some Canvas issues. But if you need help uploading an assignment or with the mechanics of Canvas, Canvas help is the number to call.

For 24/7 help with Canvas call: 1-844-592-2198.

You can visit my CCSF instructional website outside of Canvas

INSTRUCTOR'S WEBSITE

CHECK OUT STUDENT WORKS

 

 Please purchase your materials as soon as you can, as the art stores might be short on supplies, and it might take time to deliver. 

I found that the cheapest supplies are on Blick (Links to an external site.) and Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff Store website.  (Links to an external site.)Scroll down to find other Art stores including local ones.

The supplies highlighted in yellow are supplies you'll need by the beginning of the second week of class:  January 28

The rest of the supplies you'll need by the third week of class

• Blick Sketch Pad Board - 23-1/2'' x 26'' OR, perhaps you can find a piece of thin plywood or some other rigid surface at home to draw on.
• Blick Studio Newsprint Pad - 18'' x 24'', 100 Sheets OR Blick Studio Newsprint Pad - 12'' x 18'', 100 Sheets
• Drawing paper pads 24X18", 80lb OR 12X18". Recommended brands: Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Paper Pads and Blick Studio Drawing Pad - 12'' x 18'', 30 Sheets
• 3 sheets of Charcoal Paper - 19'' x 25'' ( you can can it out), Blue Gray or similar cool mid-gray. Recommended brands Strathmore  and Canson Ingres ( Blick #10703-2001 Strathmore 500 Series charcoal paper blue gray or 10703-2681 Stormy Gray 10711-2451 Canson Ingres Drawing paper or 10711-2661 Steel Gray

• X-Acto #1 Knife
• Gray Blending stumps: small, medium, and large - Assorted, Set of 12
• Piece of soft rag such as old t-shirt (for lifting and moving charcoal around)

Optional Supplies: Workable fixative; storage box; Portfolio case: folding type (not the pocket type), minimum 20.5" x 26"; to save money, may be handmade of cardboard. Rigid is best - to keep your drawings. The driest place to keep your drawings in the house is under the bed.

Optional suggested supplies for Art 132B,C,D:

Nice set of pastels. Set of pastel or conte crayon pencils. Conte pencils black, sanguine, and sepia. Variety of thicker and softer papers such as BFK Rives, Lenox, or other Printmaking Papers. Water brushes and india ink or markers for ink drawings.

SOME ONLINE ART SUPPLY STORES

Daniel Smith. Store website
Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff Store website
Jerry’s Artarama Store website

Amazon also has some art supplies selection Store website

 Art Supply Stores 

BLICK ART MATERIALS, 979 Market St, (415) 441-6075  
Store Hours: M-F 9am-8pm, Sat 9am - 7pm, Sun 10am - 6pm Store website

UTRECHT ART 1930 Van Ness Ave., (415) 409-1359
Store Hours: M-F 9am-7pm, Sat 10am - 7pm, Sun 11am - 6pm
and 466 Townsend St., 415 908-3811 Utrecht website

FLAX ART AND DESIGN, address: Fort Mason Center 2 Marina Blvd, Bldg D, San Francisco, CA 94123 . tel.: 415-530-3510  Store Hours: M - Sat 9:30am - 7pm Store website:

MICHAELS, address: 4925 Junipero Serra Blvd, Colma, CA 94014 Store website: 

SCRAP, address: 801 Toland St, enter Newcomb Ave, (415) 647-1746
Store Hours: Monday through Saturday, from 9am to 5pm Store website

Check out previous student work examples

More student work examples

This schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor to accommodate instructional and/or student needs. It is the student's responsibility to keep informed of such changes. Please read weekly Announcements.

Jan 19 and 21: week 1 -Orientation to the course

Jan 26 and 28: week 2 - Gesture Drawing

Feb.2 and 4: week 3 - Basic forms and structure of the body. Bean shape

Feb 9 and 11: week 4 - Skeletal Structure

Feb 16 and 18: week 5- Sighting & Measuring techniques

Feb 23 and 25: week 6- Foreshortening, Reclining Figure

March 2and 4: week 7 – Value/Charcoal/Additive Drawing

March 9 and 11: week 8 - Value continued

March 16 and 18: week 9 - Midterm Review

March 23 and 25: week 10- Anatomy/ Torso

March 30 and April 1: week 11- NO CLASSES SPRING BREAK

April 6 and 8:  Week 12 - Anatomy Continued

April 13 and 15:  Week 13 - Anatomy Continued

April 20 and 22:  Week 14 – Portrait

April 27 and 29:  Week 15 – Portrait Continued

May 4 and 6: Week 16 - Toned Paper, Full Value Drawing

May 11 and 13: Week 16- Costumed Model

May. 20  Final Critique/ Self-Portrait -3:10pm - 6pm