Corcoran College of Art and Design

Spring Courses + Drawing

Browse all of our courses by Area of Study; Enrollment Option; Certificate Program; or Day of the Week. Simply click on the red link on the left to see a list of courses that meets the criteria you’ve selected.

Drawing Workshop

DR0800 (non-credit)
Beginning students focus on how to create form and space while more advanced students receive guidance in composition and in refining their technical skills.

Drawing at the Corcoran Gallery

No sections available this semester

DR0815 (non-credit)
Use the Corcoran Gallery of Art, its collections, and special exhibitions as sources of inspiration and subject matter.

Figure Drawing Short Course

DR0835 (non-credit)
Students learn to capture the human form with quick gestures, develop a quality of line with contours, and become familiar with proportions by measuring and foreshortening.

Introduction to Drawing

DR1200 (1.5 credits or audit)
For students seeking to improve their drawing skills, this course emphasizes gesture, line, proportion, perspective, mass, volume, value, tone, and shading.

Academic Drawing: Still Life, Portrait and the Figure

DR1220 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students explore the traditional methods of studying drawing used by the European art academies, with a focus on the relationships between form and tonal values.

Color Theory

DR1260 (1.5 credits or audit)
Beginning with the basics of color theory, this course explores the more sophisticated study of restricted color combinations.

Academic Figure Drawing

DR1310 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students explore traditional methods of figure drawing used by European art academies.

Intermediate Drawing

DR2200 (1.5 credits or audit)
Students develop their drawing skills and explore a wider range of materials related to drawing through still life, landscape, and the model.

Pushing Personal Barriers

No sections available this semester

DR3210 (1.5 credits or audit)
This course will encourage the student's development of his/her personal style through problem solving and a series of challenges.

Drawing Strategies and Practice

FA2201 (3.0 credits or audit)
This course encourages your understanding of the basis of spatial perception; the value of immediacy in recording; your body's physical-action component in drawing; the rich trove of mark-making we can tap into. (CE students may request special permission to enroll in this 3 credit undergraduate course.)


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Important Dates

February 20
President's Day (College closed)

February 22
Monday classes meet on Wednesday. Wednesday only classes do not meet.

March 3-24
March classes begin

March 12-18
Spring Recess (College open - Classes do not meet) Limited access and hours at the Georgetown Campus

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