Drawing is an invaluable and crucial design skill for all digital media forms. This course covers the basic drawing techniques and principles that will teach students ways to demonstrate and communicate visual design concepts. The first part of the course will have students creating simple shapes, and still life illustrations. Moving on to more complex and dynamic compositions, students will learn how to draw and communicate using perspective and variation of eye level, angles and cropping in their sketches. Students will learn to incorporate human figures and environments to communicate a simple narrative scenario. One of the major objectives of this class is to train students to develop the visual language along with the skills that will enable them to express ideas and concepts visually, via quick sketches. This course is designed for students interested in animation, video and game design, as well as students in any other courses that incorporate graphic design principles. This course uses storyboard-based assignments that are staples in digital media concept communication.