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 an understanding of the formal elements and principles of drawing as they are incorporated within compositional dynamics;
2. Develop an experimental approach to mark making techniques through a diverse range of media in relation to image production;
3. Analyse the processes of perception and observational drawing to represent spaces, objects, forms and structures, in relation to ideas, narratives and research;
4. Develop drawing skills and strategies to translate data, concepts and communication as a formative skill in studio research;
5. Explore the historical, theoretical, philosophical and aesthetic contexts of drawing.

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.