Module Descriptors
BASIC VISUAL EXPLORATION AND DRAWING
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Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 4
10 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:
Independent Study Hours:
Total Learning Hours: 80
Assessment
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Texts
Betty Edwards, 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' ISBN
Maurice de Sausmarez, 'Basic Design, The Dynamics of Visual Form' ISBN
Stan Smith, 'Anatomy, Perspective and the Composition for the Artist', ISBN
Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the University; keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate periodicals and being aware of the work of major practitioners in their subject.
Maurice de Sausmarez, 'Basic Design, The Dynamics of Visual Form' ISBN
Stan Smith, 'Anatomy, Perspective and the Composition for the Artist', ISBN
Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the University; keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate periodicals and being aware of the work of major practitioners in their subject.
Module Learning Strategies
Project work will provide the framework through which your learning will take place and it will integrate the practical and the technical aspects of visual exploration and drawing. Through project work you will become familiar with the concept of selection and rejection as a basis for drawing. This will be demonstrated by your use of colour, and line and tone to establish form. Your drawings will encompass visual problem solving using ideas.
Inductory seminars, followed by group tutorials and crits to present work in progress and final portfolio of drawings.
Normally 1.5 staff hours per student per 10 credit module.
Inductory seminars, followed by group tutorials and crits to present work in progress and final portfolio of drawings.
Normally 1.5 staff hours per student per 10 credit module.
Module Resources
Studio workspace, and seminar room with 35mm slide projection facilities, sketch books, artists materials and drawing board.
There are no Skills Modulettes assigned to this module.
There are no Skills Modulettes assigned to this module.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Evidence provided by a portfolio of project work including appropriate research and development work (A,C).
Your ability to work effectively as an individual (B)
This assessment will be based on your knowledge and understanding of visual exploration and drawing and will result in one grade.
To achieve a pass, you must complete all of the assessment tasks and your work should show that you are able to analyse problems through drawing, demonstrate your ability to explore the use of imagery in the appropriate context and research subjects efficiently. You will produce solutions to a set of given brief(s).
In addition to the pass criteria to achieve the highest grade, your work should reveal intellectual understanding in the drawings/image-making you produce for assessment.
For an explanation of how your work will be judged please refer to the general learning outcomes statements for this level in the Programme Handbook.
Your ability to work effectively as an individual (B)
This assessment will be based on your knowledge and understanding of visual exploration and drawing and will result in one grade.
To achieve a pass, you must complete all of the assessment tasks and your work should show that you are able to analyse problems through drawing, demonstrate your ability to explore the use of imagery in the appropriate context and research subjects efficiently. You will produce solutions to a set of given brief(s).
In addition to the pass criteria to achieve the highest grade, your work should reveal intellectual understanding in the drawings/image-making you produce for assessment.
For an explanation of how your work will be judged please refer to the general learning outcomes statements for this level in the Programme Handbook.
Module Learning Outcome
A) An understanding of visual exploration and drawing (Learning, Contextualisation)
B) The ability to work effectively as an individual (Organisation)
C) The capacity to produce visual solutions with some supervision that are based on understanding and ideas (Visual analysis, Creative synthesis)
The content in brackets relates to the 10 learning outcomes for Art & Design outlined in the School's Student Guide.
B) The ability to work effectively as an individual (Organisation)
C) The capacity to produce visual solutions with some supervision that are based on understanding and ideas (Visual analysis, Creative synthesis)
The content in brackets relates to the 10 learning outcomes for Art & Design outlined in the School's Student Guide.
Module Assessment
A COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 100%.
Module Indicative Content
You will explore visual dynamics in order to demonstrate that most areas of design have a common element, that is drawing and the development of visual form. You will be shown that there is clear relationship between seeing and drawing. You will be asked to explore the role of visual dynamics. Much of the work is concerned with drawing, spatial organisation and with an exploration of ideas within visual mark making.