This course is an introduction to the exploration of mark making with a focus on creative concepts in drawing. This class introduces students to collective visual discourse through colaborative exercises forming individual works from shared perspectives. With an emphasis on discovering the formal through experimentation, students will be better prepared to approach, recognize and act upon drawings exciting fundamentals such as composition, contour, positive and negative space, tonal values spatial planes, foreshortening as well as the importance of a drawings contextual and historical significance.