Course Title: Refine drawing and other visual representation tools

National Element Code & Title:

CUAACD501 Refine drawing and other visual representation tools

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Investigate drawing and other visual communication devices, ideas and problem-solving tools for professional practice

1.2 Evaluate how different practitioners use different tools and make links to own work

1.3 Examine and challenge own barriers to drawing

1.4 Determine the ways in which drawing and other visual representation tools could be used to support own practice

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Establish and follow safe work practices for selected techniques

2.2 Generate and develop ideas through the use of different materials and techniques

2.3 Consider the presentation situation when selecting techniques, tools and materials

2.4 Create variety in compositions and spatial fields using visual elements

2.5 Experiment with techniques and mixed media to produce single and multi-colour visuals

2.6 Compare and contrast the value of electronic and hand drawing for specific purposes

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Evaluate the success of completed drawings in communicating ideas

3.2 Evaluate the process of drawing and visual representation as a professional practice tool

3.3 Determine the value and place of drawing and visual representation in own practice based on experimentation

Week 1 (starting 8 Feb)

NO REFINE DRAWING

CLASSES ​due to 13 week course delivered over 16 week semester.

Week 3 (starting 22 Feb) ​Class 2

Structural Drawing

Small drawings in Visual Research Journal or on A3 size paper

Creating a “structural” interpretation of an object in line. Variance of line weight and emphasis.

Materials: Graphite pencils

Week 5 (starting 8 Mar)

Tone on Ground

Small drawings on mid tone paper (craft paper or coloured textured papers)

Creating tonal images on a
flat mid-tone ground with
white
highlights and erasure techniques in charcoal, Conté and/or limited colour soft pastel.

Materials: Charcoal, Conté, Soft Pastel

Week 6 (starting 15 Mar) ​Class 4

Rub back #1 ​Still life tableau (ceramic objects)
(A2-A1 size papers)

Introduction to easel drawing using line and tone to represent basic multiple objects.

Using viewers or phone camera view finders to consider composition and cropping techniques.

Identify the technique of producing a rub back tonal drawing.

Materials: Charcoal

Week 8 (starting 29 Mar) ​Class 6

Perspective and Spatial Relationships ​(towers of boxes)

Identifying and using strategies to describe perspective and spatial information (aerial/atmospheric, relationships of scale, foreshortening and linear perspective techniques).

Materials: Pencil, mixed media.

Week 9 (starting 12 Apr)

NO REFINE DRAWING

CLASSES ​due to 13 week course delivered over 16 week semester.

Week 11 (starting 26 Apr) ​Class 8

Small Ink work experiments ​in the Visual Research Journal

(small objects)

Experimenting with ink marks and rendering on a smaller scale from small objects on desks.

Materials: Ink, brushes, pen and nibs, bamboo, sponges and other mark making tools.

Week 12 (starting 3 May) ​Class 9

Pen, Ink, Wash and Gesture

(potted plants and vases) #1

Explore pen and nibs, washes and gestural mark making on a larger scale, washy grounds, splash and spatter techniques. Monochrome using single coloured ink.

Materials: Ink, brushes, pen and nibs, bamboo, sponges and other mark making tools

Week 14 (starting 17 May) ​Class 11

Pastels: Complementary Colour ​(fruit and vegetables)

Use of coloured pastels in layered complementary colour combinations.

Materials: Soft pastels.

In class
Visual Research Journal Exercise Sheet 4:

EVALUATE THE SUCCESS OF COMPLETED DRAWINGS

Week 16 (starting 31 May) ​Class 13

Layered Tableau

Mixed media with a range of limited colour materials.

(Selected View - vertical display of objects and photographs)

Applying a build up of materials to represent a variety of images and objects in a layered composition.

Materials: Mixed media combinations.

Visual Research Journal Exercise Sheet 5: SAFE WORK PRACTICES Checklist

(Teacher to complete and give to student for submission in VRJ)

A​SSESSMENT TASK 1: VISUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL ​SEMESTER ONE - SUBMISSION DUE

Week 1 (starting 5 July)

NO CLASSES

SEMESTER 2

Week 3 (starting 19 July) ​Class 2

Animals # 1: ​Animal bones

(Skulls and bones in a studio still life tableau)

Representation of the shapes, form and texture of animal bones.

Materials: Limited colour mixed dry media

Preparatory drawings, generation and development of ideas for creation and presentation of work (ie. thumbnails, compositional choices, technical trials, series, presentation of single, diptych or triptych panels etc).

Week 5 (starting 2 Aug) ​Class 4

Discarded Objects #1: ​TV sets

(Arrangement of vintage television monitors on studio floor)

Exploration of mixed media (wet and/or dry) to the interpretation of the kinetic and inert subject matter.

Materials: Mixed wet and/or dry media.

Preparatory drawings, generation and development of ideas for creation and presentation of work (ie. thumbnails, compositional choices, technical trials, series, presentation of single, diptych or triptych panels etc).

Week 7 (starting 16 Aug) ​Class 6

Working with Paper #1:

Collage Still Life

(Studio tableau of rooster and chicken statues, books and coloured bottles)

Exploration of image making based on the combination of magazine paper & gouache.

Materials: magazines, scissors, glue sticks, gouache.

Preparatory drawings, generation and development of ideas for creation and presentation of work (ie. thumbnails, compositional choices, technical trials, series, presentation of single, diptych or triptych panels etc).

(starting 23 Aug) ​Class 7

limited imagery of encyclopaedia/map pages.

Focus on composition and constructing a drawing.

Materials: magazines, scissors, glue sticks, gouache and other mixed media.

presentation of single, diptych or triptych panels etc).

Week 9 (starting 6 Sept) ​Class 8

Visual Research Journal on Location #1

Using Visual Research Journal to gather material on location for studio work next week.

On location in Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Museum or State Library.

Identifying the techniques in the gathering of sketch information with the intention of producing a ‘studio’ work using only drawing and no photography.

Materials: portable selection of different media.

On location drawings - using Visual Research Journal - notation, capturing visual information, generating and developing ideas for translationin the studio etc.

Week 11 (starting 20 Sept) ​Class 10

Visual Research Journal on Location #3

Narrative drawing

Working from visual research gathered from the home
environment.

REVIEW of works completed in Refine Drawing - Folio selection ​session with peers.

Development of sketches and visual research based on your living
environment into a studio

drawing. Materials: choice of media

Optional folio selection session with peers.

ASSESSMENT TASK 1: VISUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL ​SEMESTER TWO - SUBMISSION DUE

ASSESSMENT TASK 2: PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION ​DUE

Week 13 (starting 4 Oct) ​Class 12

Process to Find 2:

Self-directed project

● ​Developmental drawings

Producing 2-3 developmental drawings based on the previous week’s drawings.

Materials: choice of mixed media

Option to catch up on outstanding Visual Research Tasks.

Week 14 (starting 11 Oct) ​Class 13

Last Class

Process to Find 3:

Self-directed project

● ​Final drawing(s) REVIEW of works completed

for Process to Find.

LAST REFINE DRAWING CLASS FOR SEMESTER.

Producing a major drawing(s) based on evolving developments from the previous two weeks.

Materials: choice of mixed media

Option to catch up on outstanding Visual Research Tasks.

Week 16