• This class covers how drapery works, how the understructure dictates the surface design of the material.
• From there, students will break down the simple architectural features and identify them with a naming convention.
• Take sample reference images and break them down into line drawings with a fully realized topo wireframe design indicating the surface changes and surface orientation from the viewers’ perspective.

• This week tackles the breakdown of another very important list of architectural devices, the seven-folds, why they happen and how, and developing a shorthand and a long-form design process for both line drawing and rendering

• This week steps back for a moment and goes over value schemes and how lighting works, different contrast points, and value/key structures
• Students will copy the reference lighting rendering on the wireframe to completion
• Once the rendering has been accomplished with a certain level of success, students will invent a different lighting scheme to develop a sensibility to invent form and dictate invented lighting in a general sense

• Different types of material behave differently both in tensile strength as well as in their reflective properties of light
• This week students will look at 3 very basic, commonly used materials and see how they look in their architectural builds, as well as how they absorb and reflect light
• This is a render-intensive week, students have time to put in the rendering necessary with all the different drawings required

Beyond the 3 common modern materials, there is a plethora of other materials students work with to costume and clothe the characters they invent and use of illustrations and designs,

• Students will also learn shorthand for rendering textures and patterns on the material
• Students will learn to control the value perspective of the additional textures we render over the previous tones developed
• Students will look at a dozen other material types and render them from reference
• This is a render-intensive week, so students should take time to put in the rendering necessary with all the different drawings required

• From dresses to tank tops, bodices to lace stockings, tight pants to paramilitary fatigues, students will learn about the unique tension points of the female form and how the body influences the cuts of clothing fits the characters,
• Students will develop a process utilizing the mannequin approach learned from the analytical figure drawing classes
• From the mannequin, students will then develop a well-designed line drawing pushing the architecture of the drapery over the perspective of the figure

• From tight pants to baggy skate pants, flannels to t-shirts, suits to jumpsuits, students will learn about the unique tension points of the male form and how the body influences the cuts of clothing costume fit our characters with
• Students will develop a process utilizing the mannequin approach learned from the analytical figure drawing classes
• From the mannequin, students will then develop a well-designed line drawing pushing the architecture of the drapery over the perspective of the figure

• Now that students can identify materials by their tensile strength, their reflective properties, their surface qualities, and their textures or prints, they will explore rendering characters from already existing movies from the new Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings films
• Here students will learn how to layer different materials over each other and how each previous layer influences the topmost materials and their surfaces