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Design Principles and Drawing Class with Megan Berry: Empower Your Creative Skills

Join Megan Berry's class to learn design thinking, drawing fundamentals, and art and design principles while developing your creativity and skills. Gain confidence in the design process, drawing techniques, and art career-related knowledge through projects and critiques. Improve your skills and get inspired by famous artworks!

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Design Principles and Drawing Class with Megan Berry: Empower Your Creative Skills

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  1. CSI Design Principles Megan Berry Instructor Class Philosophy ANYONE can learn how to draw and create.

  2. Megan Berry • Bachelors Degree in Art Education • Minors in Art History & French Michigan State University • Masters Degree in Curriculum & Teaching Michigan State University

  3. Megan Berry • Davis Junior High 2000-2001 8th Grade Art/Art Foundations • Utica High School 2001-2010 Photography (started program), Art Foundations, Fashion Design, Comic Illustration, Drawing Fundamentals • Shelby Junior High 2007 Film & Photo (started program) • Utica Center for Science & Industry 2008-present Design Principles and Digital Media (designed the curriculum for both courses)

  4. Megan Berry Freelance Photographer Family portraits, special occasions, senior pictures

  5. Course Content: Design Thinking Getting students comfortable and confident with the design process. Empathy, Ideate (Brainstorm), Prototype Understanding the client or “user” Collaboration How to give and process feedback. Refine and improve ideas. Cycle can repeat many times.

  6. Course Content: Drawing Basic drawing skills: tapping into right hemisphere on the brain Using drawing as a way to communicate ideas Orthographic drawing (free-hand and in Solid Works program) Executing and understanding that drawing is a crucial step in the creative process Truly seeing the world differently in order to draw

  7. The Drawing Journey Preliminary drawing September 2010 Final portrait from same student June 2011 Self-Portraits

  8. The Drawing Journey Preliminary drawing September 2010 Final portrait from same student June 2011 Self-Portraits

  9. The Drawing Journey Preliminary drawing September 2010 Final portrait from same student June 2011 Self-Portraits

  10. Course Content: Art & Design • Elements of Art & Principles of Design: basic building blocks of any artistic creation • How art and design relate to careers • Team and individual projects • Critiques; expressing opinions effectively • Drawing inspiration from famous art of the past and the present

  11. Examples of larger projects Futuristic architectural design

  12. Examples of larger projects Repetitive Tool Design

  13. Examples of larger projects Furniture Design in Solid Works

  14. Examples of larger projects Color Theory Project

  15. Grading Large projects are graded on the following 5 criteria: Objectives Mastery of Skill Craftsmanship Creativity Work Ethic

  16. Portfolio Each quarter students will write a self-reflection (portfolio review) to assess growth in these areas: Achieving personal goals set at beginning of the quarter Progress on assessment criteria Progress on drawing skills Professionalism Their portfolios will be a well-organized, 3-ring binder.

  17. Contact Information Megan Berry megan.berry@uticak12.org

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