Alon Chitayat

New York City — perhaps no other place in the world can one be surrounded by more
cultures, cliques, and communities. When is the last time you stopped and looked
around?
In this class, students will choose a specific community in the five boroughs and
explore and document their way of life through on-site sketching. Through this
process, our hope is to uncover and reveal insights about ourselves and the way we
perceive the world around us.
The course will begin with a survey of other interactive projects using drawing and
sketching as the primary medium for storytelling. Several sketching techniques and
media (pencil, charcoal, ink, and watercolor) will be covered, in addition to techniques
for sketching environments and perspectives, motion, gestures, and characters on site.
The class will culminate in a group show of the students’ work — work that will
celebrate the fabric and diversity of the people around us.
All levels of drawing experience are welcome!