Maricopa Community Colleges  MMT188   20006-99999 

Official Course Description:  MCCCD Approval:  06/27/00

MMT188  20006-20025

L+L

3 Credit(s)

6 Period(s)

Action Analysis For Figure Drawing

Study of the dynamics of form as seen in human figure and nature. Prerequisites: ART116.

Cross-References:  ART188

 

 

 

 

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

 

 

MMT188  20006-20025

Action Analysis For Figure Drawing

 

1.

Student will understand structure and anatomy and their relationship to motion. (I)

2.

Student will learn to draw moving action and general form character of its parts. (I)

3.

Student will develop emphatic response to give dynamism to figure in motion. (II)

4.

Student will learn to capture the sequential motion in drawing the figure. (II)

5.

Student will understand rhythm, tension and pulsation of the natural environment, and translate these phenomena into visual form. (III)

6.

Student will learn the dynamics of figure and environment interacting in motion. (III)

 

 

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MMT188  20006-20025

Action Analysis For Figure Drawing

 

 

I. Study of a figure structure and anatomy

A. Skeleton

B. Muscle structure

C. Surface characteristics

D. Joints

II. Gestural Studies

A. Action, tension and pulsation

B. Subject mass and its alignment in space

C. Rhythmic movement and energies

III. Sequential motion of the human body

A. Moving action pose

B. Body dynamics in a complete action

C. Sequencing

IV. Dynamics of simple forces in nature

A. Anatomy of natural elements

B. Sequential studies

V. Interaction of figure in action and the environment

 

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