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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The course introduces observational drawing in a studio environment to enable students to develop and apply an understanding of the principles and foundations of life drawing through a range of techniques and concepts to support future specialised practice-led research. The course has a focus on the study of the human body and employs professional life models. Each week students are presented with different tasks and approaches to seeing and drawing observationally by identifying space, shape, form, line, gesture, expression, movement, colour, tone, and composition. The experience of drawing is broadened by testing a variety of drawing mediums and processes through haptic exploration. In class students build up a substantial portfolio of work for assessment and extend their drawing skills through take-home, guided, and self-directed activities. A deeper knowledge of drawing in context of historical and contemporary art and design practices is furthered through weekly tutorial slide presentations, written and oral critical reflections. This observational drawing course is relevant to students with any level of experience and from all visual arts and design disciplines. This course is fun, challenging and rewarding. Observational Drawing is designed to build confidence and provide invaluable foundational drawing skills that are applicable to all disciplines in new media, visual art, design and art history and theory.
Portfolio of in-class studio work (12 weeks x 4 hours)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Guided independent drawing projects (12 weeks x 4 hours)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Research and critical reflections (2,000 words embedded in independent projects)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing. Other Information Classes are delivered in a studio environment using professional life models. All classes are expected to be attended in person as there are no recording of lessons online. This course will have a Materials Fee. At the ANU School of Art & Design, each workshop sources appropriate specialist?materials,?which are made available to students?to facilitate their working?effectively,?efficiently and safely?within our programs. The School of Art & Design is able to supply materials that don’t compromise ANU obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS), and that have been assessed as suitable for each course. The Materials Fee ? is payable for the School of Art & Design to supply consumables and materials that become your physical property. You can choose to pay the Materials Fee and have these materials supplied to you through the School of Art & Design, allowing you to take advantage of the GST-free bulk purchasing power of the ANU.?These materials are also WHS compliant. The exact cost of the Materials Fee will be updated in the Class Summary for each semester in which the course is offered. The full SOAD policy can be read here: https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/required-resources-and-incidental-fees.
None Preliminary Reading All texts and resources required for the course will be available on the online course learning platform Indicative readings include; - Weekly slide show in context of that week's learning outcomes - a focus on an artist to support that week's learning outcomes - a reading specific to the themes and concepts specific to that week's learning outcomes