Course Title: Produce drawings to communicate ideas

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2020

Course Code: VART6406C

Course Title: Produce drawings to communicate ideas

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program: C5382 - Diploma of Product Design

Course Contact: Robin Blood

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4819

Course Contact Email: robin.blood@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 80

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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

In this course you will explore the diverse application of drawing to communicate ideas. This will include developing drawing skills and confidence to communicate design concepts for objects, processes or spaces. Drawings may be for personal use or for presentation in exhibitions, for concept roughs or publications.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CUAACD301 Produce drawings to communicate ideas

Element:

1. Plan drawing work

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Identify drawing requirements from reference material and confirm with appropriate people if required
1.2 Identify factors, including contractual, legal and ethical factors, that may impact on how drawing work is undertaken
1.3 Gather information about drawing techniques, materials and equipment from a range of sources and determine how they may be used to communicate ideas
1.4 Evaluate information for its application to specific drawing briefs

Element:

2. Experiment to represent ideas

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Explore the capabilities of techniques, materials and equipment
2.2 Follow safety procedures for particular techniques, materials and equipment
2.3 Select approaches that best suit the purpose of drawings and their presentation context

Element:

3. Create drawings

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Organise materials, tools and equipment for selected techniques
3.2 Produce preliminary drawings and discuss their effectiveness with relevant people
3.3 Confirm intellectual property and other relevant legislative requirements are met
3.4 Finalise drawings, incorporating feedback on work in progress as required
3.5 Prepare drawings for the presentation context

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course, you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate your competency in the above elements.


Details of Learning Activities

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to produce drawings that represent and communicate ideas. It does not relate to drawing as an art form.


Teaching Schedule

Week Session Contents Folio Tasks
1 Introduction to semester   
2 Introduction to drawing for 3D visualisation.
Basic two point perspective. Line weight and usage. In class exercise.		 Task 1.1: Basic 2 point perspective
3 Perspective above and below the line.Quality of line.
In class exercise: Cuboids – two point perspective.		 Task 1.1: Basic 2 point perspective. 2 best pages
Task 1.2: Cuboids
Select x 2 best pages
4 Ellipses and circles in perspective Task 1.3: Ellipse and Cylinder forms
5 Cylindricanes.
In class drawing exercise.
Introduction to annotation in drawings		 Task 1.3: Ellipse and Cylinder forms continued
6 In class drawing exercise, Task 1.4: Elgo (Lego) Block
7 Transformations exercise.
Combinations exercise.		 Task 1.5: Exterior Observational drawing
8 Student Feedback and Review. Folio and Technical drawing book review.
Choosing a view. In class drawing exercise		 Task 1.6: Hair dryer
9 Idea generation.
Thumbnail drawing.
In class drawing exercise.		 Task 1.7: Pencil sharpener
10 Exploring 3D forms & detail in accurate proportion.
Observational drawing
Shadows and Shading		 Task 1.8A: Adaptor.
11 Concept development.
Drawing composition. Presentation of ideas
In class drawing exercise		 Task 1.9: Blood glucose monitor
Basic shading and drop shadows
12 Concept development.
Drawing composition reinforcement.
In class drawing exercise.		 Task 1.10: Two way radio
13 Detail development drawing composition.
In class drawing exercise,		 Task 1.10: Two way radio, continued
14 Drawing composition and Page Layouts In class Activity
15 Catch up and review
16 Assessment Task 1: Drawing manual 2: Drawing Folio submission for review
Semester break
Part 2: Semester 2
Week Session Contents Folio Activities
1 Drawing refresh: Forms, surfaces & relative relationship, study of basic geometric shapes to form an object. Bottle drawing activity (final sketch will be used for rendering exercise). Activity 2.1: Bottles, Bottles, Bottles
2 Exploring more complex forms, contour and section lines. Creating form from preliminary shapes. Finalise Activity 2.1 ready for rendering week 3 Activity 2.2: Cloud sketching
Activity 2.1: Bottles, Bottles, Bottles, finalise drawing for week 3 rendering class
3 Using Flat views, construction planes and sections to construct perspective sketches. Students are reminded to bring in an object next week for exploded view drawing Activity 2.3: Construction Planes and Sections
4 Exploring complex forms, contour and section lines. Exploded view high quality detail drawing. Students to bring in an object of there choice for Activity 2.4, exploded view. Activity 2.4: Exploded view, object 1
5 Exploded view high quality detail drawing continued. Students to bring in a second object of there choice for Activity 2.2, exploded view. Activity 2.5: Exploded view, object 2
6 Children's Furniture design composition. Large format drawing. Activity 2.6: Children's Furniture
7 Children's Furniture design composition, high quality drawing. Instructional drawing
Finalise Activity 2.6 ready for rendering week 8		 Activity 2.6: Children's furniture, finalise
8 Student Feedback and Review. Bring Activities 2.1 to 2.6 for review and progress grades.  Activity 2.1 to 2.6 due for progress assessment
9 Exploring complex forms. Construction details and features. External drawings of Architectural features Activity 2.7: Construction details
10 Automotive sketching, introduction. Large format sketch.
Profile and Elevation		 Activity 2.8: Automotive sketching,
11 Automotive sketching, continued. Perspective sketching Activity 2.8: Automotive sketching, finalise
12 Exploring complex forms. High performance product or vehicle. High quality drawing, side elevation and perspective view (final sketch will be used for rendering exercise) Activity 2.9: High performance product
13 High performance product or vehicle. High quality drawing.
Finalise Activity 2.8 ready for rendering week 14		 Activity 2.9: High performance product, finalise
14 Catch and review week  
15 Folio review and compilation  
16 Assessment task 1, 2 and 3 due  


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

Assessment is on-going throughout the course. Assessment tasks will require you demonstrate the application of knowledge and skills through practical projects and tasks including drawing tasks and a major drawing project.


Assessment Tasks

Assessment task 1.  Folio

Due week 32

Assessment task 2. Folio

Due week 32

Assessment task 3. Presentation

Due week 32


Assessment Matrix

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