Combining both traditional and digital approaches to thinking and making, the student’s primary focus in this project is figure drawing. Students will be tasked with studying human form movements and applying this new knowledge to walk cycles. Then, each walk cycle will be translated through 12 drawings where experimentation, media exploration, and risk taking will be present. The final 24 drawings will be sequenced into two looping animations.

This project will offer a basic understanding of the proportions of the human figure to be generated alongside knowledge about figure/ground relationships through value. Upon project completion, students will realize a greater ability to achieve spatial depth through an exploration of mixed media. Furthermore, they will have implemented “play” into the process of making and start their journey of discovering the use of color media within color drawing applications while gaining greater knowledge about human form variation through movement, foundations of animation, and other creative processes key to their self-understanding as an artist.