DWG1201 · Drawing: Introduction

Overview

An intensive program facilitating the acquisition and development of practical and intellectual skills required by art and design students in the practice of drawing. This unit explores the ways drawing methodologies can contribute to the development and communication of creative practice and research. The unit challenges and expands how you engage modes of expression, develop ideas and record the world around you. Observation, analysis, interpretation and expression are studied through drawing processes in varied media and mark-making methods - becoming a generative tool for the expression of ideas, forms and narratives. A range of built and natural environments, figures and models are used within sequential projects to explore key visual elements and principles. The projects will also equip you with visual problem-solving techniques and experimental approaches to materials, that you may then apply to issues pertaining to contemporary cultural production.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate knowledge and application of drawing’s formal elements, principles, and histories within cultural, social, and environmental contexts;
2. Create drawings that respond to diverse contexts through experimentation, materials, and observation;
3. Apply interdisciplinary methods and global perspectives to develop drawing practices across diverse contexts;
4. Engage in critical discussion, collaboration and drawing-based exchange within studio practice;
5. Address ethical, equitable, and climate-aware approaches in drawing practices and material choices;
6. Use reflective strategies to sustain inquiry, translate concepts, and critically evaluate research in changing contexts;
7. Explore place, perception, and belonging in dialogue with Indigenous cultural frameworks and global contexts.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.