The subject will be conducted in a studio-classroom. Teaching methods will consist of a short lecture/presentations and demonstrations presented each class, followed by drawing and art-making exercises that reflect the concepts introduced in the lecture. Throughout each class there will be individual and/or group critiques. Some of the classwork will require the students to work outside at special architectural spaces, landscapes and field trip sites. Course content includes: 1. Introduction to materials: Charcoal; Graphite; Chinese Ink ; Charcoal paper. 2. Introduction to the Elements of Art: Line; Tone; Shape; Texture; Form. 3. Introduction to 1 and 2 point perspective. 4. Introduction to the sketch as a developmental process. 5. Translating ideas to pictures. 6. Introduction to Figure Drawing: Line of Action; Gesture drawing; Angles and Proportions; Anatomical Drawing. 7. Introduction to Volume: Sculpting the figure in space. 8. Introduction to the properties of Light: Still life drawing with tone; Night drawing; Drawing the figure in space with tone. 9. Elements of Composition & Design with perceptual painting: Activating the picture plane; Balancing the picture plane; Textures and patterns; Balance, contrast, emphasis, Rhythm. 10. Figure in Space. 11. Ideas translated to concepts of drawing.
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Year Taken: AY 13/14
Grade: ATechnically speaking, DA1000 can be summarized as real-life drawing. This is the fundamental module that trains students to observe tiny details with their eyes, taking note of shadows, measurements and compositions, next using a mixture of mediums to “copy paste” what they see onto their papers.
Students will get to learn about still life drawings, perspective drawings and figure/model drawings. Drawings are in monochromatic (mine in black & white) colour scheme. Medium used will be pencils, pens, charcoal, ink, graphite, calligraphy brushes etc.
This module may sound redundant in an IT course, but it actually acts as a foundation that I found to ease the learnability of the next art modules, which you will read about them soon.
This review was reposted with the kind permission of Yunzi. Originally published at https://joysofyz.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-takeaways-from-adm-core-major-pe.html
June 8, 2021
