In their assignment, sophomores and juniors chose a letter of the alphabet for their Bestiary drawing and an endangered animal whose name correlates to that letter. Medieval bestiaries typically feature a border, decorative letters, and a hand-drawn animal. 

To convey a sense of weight and movement for their animal, students started with a gesture drawing, a method to convey the action, form, and pose of a subject. After establishing the gesture, students used geometric shapes to build a scaffolding for the form and finally used contour lines and shading to give their animal a sense of volume.