Drawing school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

Via image presentations and essays, students are introduced to contemporary artists who use drawing as their primary medium. Students create works on paper for critique that reflect the diversity of themes, formats, and materials being practiced today. (4 credits)

This drawing course introduces students to the basic skills of graphic representation for interior decorators. Students will learn how to use basic drafting tools, take field dimensions, and draw to scale. They will develop the ability to understand and draw plans and elevations, and will be introduced to rendering, model building, perspective and orthogonal drawing. This class will include a field trip to sketch furniture and interiors.

Design Computing at the BAC encompasses a variety of technology and resources that can enhance your current capabilities, introduce you to a new program, and ultimately expand your options as a designer. Courses may be taken individually, or applied to the Design Computing Certificate Program.

Design Computing Certificate
The Certificate Program in Design Computing allows students to build expertise in computer-based design technologies, and learn skills relevant to the evolving trend...

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This course introduces the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with ArchiCAD 10 at its core. From within the BIM framework, students will learn and master the use of building components, navigate through the actively linked views of the building (plans, sections, elevations, details, perspective views, renderings), compose a design presentation, and document a project for constructability/construction. At the start of the course students will be challenged with modeling several comple...

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This course introduces students to both freehand and mechanically generated perspectives. The initial sessions will discuss historical concepts before engaging in plan, elevation and section one-point perspectives. The course will end with the study of two-point perspectives, alternate vanishing points, and rendered shades and shadows. Students will develop interior and exterior views and entourage. The course integrates analog and digital media through Sketchup exercises and an introduction to ...

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