Brooks College Prep Academy High School – AP Drawing

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

AP Drawing Portfolio is intended to address a breadth of drawing techniques and media by creating works that each demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas using drawing skills. Students submit a portfolio and physical works of art for evaluation. The instructional goals of the AP Studio Art are to encourage creative and systematic investigation of formal and conceptual issues, emphasize art-making as an ongoing process in which the student makes informed and critical decisions, help students develop technical skills and understand the functions of visual elements, and encourage students to become independent thinkers who contribute inventively and critically to their culture through the making of art. All students enrolled will submit digital portfolios for evaluation and will be documenting their entire design process including brainstorming, practice, experimentation, and revision in order to show the development and refinement of 2D designs and chosen themes. Writing will be extensive throughout the duration of the course in order for a student to contextualize the ideas, materials, and processes used and expressed for each of their completed works and guided by the students own questions. Structured as a college-level course students enrolled in AP Drawing are expected to possess the rigor, diligence, and independent work ethic expected of an introductory college studio art class. Students will be expected to manage their time in order to fulfill portfolio deadlines including submission of images, writings, and project refinements. All projects will involve a great deal of continued work including development, building, critique, reflection, questioning, and refinement. Students will also be expected to participate in class demonstrations, discussions, and peer critiques. The AP Art and Design course framework presents an inquiry-based approach to learning about and making art and design. Students are expected to conduct an in-depth, sustained investigation of materials, processes, and ideas. The framework focuses on concepts and skills emphasized within college art and design foundations courses with the same intent: to help students become inquisitive, thoughtful artists and designers able to articulate information about their work. AP Art and Design students develop and apply skills of inquiry and investigation, practice, experimentation, revision, communication, and reflection._\- AP Art and Design Course and Exam Description, Effective Fall 2019_