Drawing school training courses in Chicago, IL (public, in-house or online)

This course is an introduction to the art of drawing. Students learn to use a variety of media and techniques as they explore the relationship of drawing to graphic design and illustration.

Architectural Drafting is a study of techniques necessary to produce working drawings by which a building is constructed or remodeled. Completing the certificate or degree requirements in architectural drafting can lead to employment in drafting or detailing for an architectural or engineering firm, or to jobs in contracting, subcontracting, materials supply, or other construction related industries.

In this Adobe Fireworks training class, students receive a comprehensive introduction to using Fireworks CS5 to design and create graphics.

Class Goals
•Learn to create and edit bitmaps with Fireworks
•Learn to use Fireworks’ vector tools
•Learn to work with multiple images in Fireworks
•Learn to add text to graphics in Fireworks
•Learn to optimize graphics in Fireworks

Drawing is a visual art which makes use of common instruments like pencils, pens, paint brushes, crayons, chalks, markers and pastel colors to draw two dimensional figures. Figures can be drawn on papers, cardboards, plastics and canvases. Cartooning and expressing oneself publicly through graffiti are also part of drawing. Drawings may be a symbol of something, showing show some objects or of some living beings.

Drawings can be made as a hobby or for artistic or technical purposes. A...

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Basic Working Drawings course is designed to prepare you for the various types of working drawings that are used in the industry and how they relate to the installation of fire alarm systems. For the exam, it is important for you to be able to read plans, diagrams and drawings. Other vital elements in this course are plan symbols, line weights and types. Finally, it covers computer aided drafting (CAD) and related terminology