One of our renowned Fine Art program’s four specializations, students who choose Drawing as their focus learn how to work with a broad range of materials, develop technical skills and conceptual awareness, take creative risks, overcome artistic challenges, and express themselves with confidence.
You will be taught by skilled instructors with strong artistic practices who recognize you as a fellow artist, united by a dedication to the medium and the urge to experiment.
Drawing students explore composition, colour, qualities of light, and conceptual concerns through observational and experimental modes of drawing. Drawing courses offer the chance to engage through research, making, reflection, and analysis to provide a thorough understanding of line, form, and perspective.
In the Fine Arts program, courses cover practical skill development and concepts in four traditional arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking) allowing the student to mix and match techniques and forms for their own unique aesthetic.
FOUNDATION PROGRAM: You will start your NSCAD degree with an immersive Foundation studies program. This first year introduces you to all the disciplines and practices we teach at NSCAD, and it will equip you with the critical and creative skills you need to thrive in art and design school.
The Fine Arts facilities are divided between the Fountain and Port campuses. After Foundation year, you will have nearly unlimited access to your own studio space – an essential component of a studio-intensive degree. Advanced drawing courses also have dedicated large classrooms.
Our faculty and technicians come from diverse backgrounds and are accomplished artists, scholars, educators, and leaders in their craft—offering students a wide range of skills, information and opinion. Through mentorship, practice and discussion, you will form and articulate an awareness of the historical and conceptual roots of your work.
Drawing is an elemental skill which provides Fine Arts graduates with many options. Many go on to become practicing artists, commercial illustrators, cartoonists, animators, book illustrators, film industry workers, curators, arts administrators, designers, and architects.
