Course Details

FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING

About this Course

This course is consisted of close and open-ended perceptual and drawing activities to ensure mastery the drawing skills and perceptual development. Studio problems develop the draught men¡¯s way of knowing through observation, formulation and articulation. Class discussion develops visually oriented critical abilities. Numerous drawing media are introduced. Assignments are regular part of this course, extending studio projects to encourage independent experiments and individual exploration.

Course Learning Outcomes

1) Apply techniques to create visual effects through a series of drawing exercises.
2) Develop the skills of drawing by demonstrating the mastery of structure, proportion, form, and spatial mapping
3) Apply the mastery of drawing techniques to individual drawing activities.
4) Evaluate elements of drawing.

Course Syllabus

+ Course Syllabus

1) Course Introduction
- Course Description
- Objectives
- Contents
- Instructional methods
- Evaluation
- Reference
- Lecture :

2) Marks and contents
The Basics drawing marks : points, line area

3) Space perception and structure
- Space and figure ? ground perception
- Space composition
- Space as positive and negative.
- Exercises and experiments

4) Figure Basic structural characteristics.
- skeletal or linear qualities.
- MASS : The structure of solid and spatial volume COMPOSITE ORGANISATION : The organic Union of parts

5) The Textural Weave Figure And Ground
- Textile, spatial and expressive conceptual aspects.
- Drawing texture with various media

6) Dynamics
- Dual forces in art and nature
- Equilibrium/ turbulence and illusions.

7) The HUMAN FIGURE structure and Action
- The human body
- Figure in action

8) Vision ? The Creative Factor
- Vision and abstraction
- Using non ? objective form

9) Immediate and Developmental Vision.
- The commentary recognition of subjects.
- Discovering and developing the motif

10) Creative transformation, order, expression, and symbol.
- The imagination and order
- The imagination and expression
- The imagination and symbol

11) Head And Face Transformation
The head as order, expression and symbol.

12) Experimental Drawing
Mix ? media drawing

13) Research, Folio & Design Process
documentation
sketches
exploration
exprementation

14) Personal development in selected media and techniques of art productio
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