DWG3519 - Perceptual drawing (the figure) B

Leader: Kit Wise

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit offers an extended engagement with the representational issues prefaced in the previous figure drawing unit. In a studio class, sequential projects, using either male or female life models, will explore the visual description of the human figure in a variety of spatial contexts. This will promote the investigation and discovery of a range of appropriate representational strategies involving drawing media, use of colour and scale of imagery and format.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will:

1. have skill in using an extended range of drawing materials and processes to confidently create dynamic relationships between the figure and its surrounding space;
2. possess an understanding of the relationship of drawing to colour in the creation and manipulation of form and space;
3. be capable of making drawings in a variety of sizes including the possibility of very large scale;
4. begin to recognise individual responses to the perceptual world and make independent judgements on the appropriateness of procedures and techniques for their description;
5. possess greater understanding of the philosophical, theoretical and aesthetic issues underlying the perceptual drawing process.

Assessment

By folio 100%. Initial project or work-in-progress is assessed in the first part of the semester and contributes a weighting of no less than 20% to the final assessment.

Contact hours

12 hours per week including 3 studio hours and 9 hours of independent study

Prerequisites

DWG2509