Explore your imagination and learn how to bring drawings to life through movement using Adobe Flash. Create a storyboard and explore the importance of "meaningful movement"-deciding how an object should move-to create an emotional and organic experience. Additional Lab Fee - $5

Turn your drawings into fun and engaging images that communicate a mood, a feeling or an idea. Explore drawing and image making through short- and long-term projects; experiment with different problem-solving methods; and work with media ranging from crayons and pencils to watercolors and acrylics.

Discover the power of black-and-white photography as you learn the fundamentals, from lighting to composition. Fun projects cover various photography genres (portraiture, nature, still-life, abstraction, landscape), and each student leaves with their own negatives, contact sheets and 8 x 10 prints. Held at ArtCenter's Black and White Photography Lab.

Product designers invent and design the things you buy: watches, bicycles, shoes and even toothbrushes. Learn how to come up with original ideas, create real products and then bring them to life. You'll learn industrial drawing techniques, concept development and visualization skills.

Drawing the human figure is important training for all artists. Learn about form, proportion, shape, composition, the human skeleton and simplification. To inspire your drawing, we will explore how artists from the past and present have depicted the human figure.

Learn the nuts and bolts of comic book creation: character design, page composition, penciling, inking, lettering and screentone. Polish your narrative skills and explore various approaches from single-panel gags to full-page construction. Everyone's contributions will be included in the class comic book-a guaranteed future collector's item.

Investigate personal and shared space, especially in relation to yourself and your friends. Use cardboard, glue and paint to construct one project that reflects your world from three different perspectives: the near (things we touch), the middle (the spaces that hold us) and the far (the settings we live in).

Create exciting car designs using a variety of sketching, illustration and presentation techniques. Learn how to develop and visually communicate your ideas.

Explore drawing fundamentals; become familiar with techniques in graphite, charcoal, Conté crayons, pastel and ink; and develop your understanding of line, shape, proportion, value and composition through technical exercises and abstract thinking.

Drawing the human figure is important training for all artists. Learn about form, proportion, shape, composition, the human skeleton and simplification. To inspire your drawing, we will explore how artists from the past and present have depicted the human figure.

Investigate personal and shared space, especially in relation to yourself and your friends. Use cardboard, glue and paint to construct a project that reflects your world from three different perspectives: the near (things we touch), the middle (spaces that hold us) and the far (settings we live in).

Turn your drawings into fun, engaging images that communicate a mood, a feeling or an idea. Explore visual communication through short- and long-term projects; experiment with different problem-solving methods; and work with media ranging from crayons to acrylics.

Uncover topics of artistic abstract thinking that emphasize fundamental still-life drawing principles such as proportion, positive/negative space and shape. Explore still-life ideas as they relate to ensemble, vignettes and objects.

Create fantastic characters and places and learn new ways to brainstorm in this drawing and painting workshop. Work from clothed models, special theme setups and Old Master works. Our emphasis will be on creativity, technique and building confidence.

Learn the nuts and bolts of comic book creation: character design, storytelling, page composition, penciling, inking and lettering. Tackle single-panel gags, multi-paneled strips and the longer narratives popular in manga and western comic forms. Discuss favorite comics and cartoonists from the past and present. Workshop culminates with the production of a digital class comic-a keepsake collecting all student work.

Discover the process of painting and composition while creating quality work. Fun activities include painting demonstrations, participating in setting up the composition, and one-on-one instruction. Near the end of the class you will paint from a clothed model.

Design and create your own product line-custom stationery, furoshiki gift wrap, notebooks, patterned fabric- using screen printing, stamping and stencil techniques. Learn basic design principles and be inspired by artists like Sister Corita and textile houses like Marimekko.

Take your interest in fashion to a different level. Have fun while learning how to draw fashion croquis (elongated quick sketches), creating 3D projects like paper dresses, and exploring accessory design. Learn basic fashion vocabulary and how to present your work.

Develop techniques in contour drawing and watercolor application in this drawing and painting class. Explore landscapes, portraits and narrative scenes through a variety of mediums-watercolor pencils, ink and wash - and painterly presentations.

Learn how to work with a variety of mediums including plaster, wire, aluminum foil and foam to create 3D objects. Discover how to build structures, manipulate materials and use sculpting tools. You will be encouraged to set up your own artistic problems and to explore your own creative ideas.