Draw Your World - COFA0921
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: Paddington
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
Fully online postgraduate course
Have you ever wished you could draw something from your imagination or from the real world so other people could understand it?
This fully online course will introduce you to techniques that will help you to accomplish this. You will learn how to use the key elements of drawing: line, tone, composition and artists’ systems of proportioning the human figure, such as Michelangelo and Durer. You will learn to understand the expressive uses of these elements through experimentation with a broad variety of media including charcoal, pen, pencil, ink and chalk.
Working with wet and dry, colour and monochrome materials, you will build a range of approaches that will be employed to express abstract ideas and interpret observed subjects; both found and composed. Initial exercises will involve direct observation and drawing from found real objects. As your skills develop, you will learn ways of expressing emotions though forms, culminating in the final project where you will combine skills of direct observation and interpretation.
You will be encouraged to learn from analysis of drawings made by particular established artists and you will make a study from an original drawing work of one of these. Your research into the mark making vocabulary of a particular artist will form the basis of a major study in which these marks will be transposed to lend specific qualities to the portrait of a friend.
You will need a digital camera or scanner as well as drawing materials that will be detailed when the course begins.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.
Have you ever wished you could draw something from your imagination or from the real world so other people could understand it?
This fully online course will introduce you to techniques that will help you to accomplish this. You will learn how to use the key elements of drawing: line, tone, composition and artists’ systems of proportioning the human figure, such as Michelangelo and Durer. You will learn to understand the expressive uses of these elements through experimentation with a broad variety of media including charcoal, pen, pencil, ink and chalk.
Working with wet and dry, colour and monochrome materials, you will build a range of approaches that will be employed to express abstract ideas and interpret observed subjects; both found and composed. Initial exercises will involve direct observation and drawing from found real objects. As your skills develop, you will learn ways of expressing emotions though forms, culminating in the final project where you will combine skills of direct observation and interpretation.
You will be encouraged to learn from analysis of drawings made by particular established artists and you will make a study from an original drawing work of one of these. Your research into the mark making vocabulary of a particular artist will form the basis of a major study in which these marks will be transposed to lend specific qualities to the portrait of a friend.
You will need a digital camera or scanner as well as drawing materials that will be detailed when the course begins.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.