Course Title: Produce drawings to communicate ideas
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2019
Course Code: VART6469C
Course Title: Produce drawings to communicate ideas
School: 320T Architecture & Urban Design
Campus: City 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
On successful completion of this course, you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate your competency in producing drawings to communicate ideas.
Its purpose is to equip students with a style of freehand perspective drawing that develops and describes their three-dimensional (3D) design ideas.
Your "personal style" will develop through an understanding of the basic skills required but should not influence skills and techniques learnt.
Details of Learning Activities
Learning activities will take place in a studio / class room using industry standard resources. The program uses repetition and copying examples from demonstration by the teacher to cement basic drawing principles. There will be in class activities most weeks and you will be expected to produce several pages of drawings in each lesson to consolidate the course content.
You should spend a similar amount of time outside of the weekly session practising the techniques learnt each week to complete assignments outside class time.
In class activities may include:
• Presentations and demonstration
• Teacher directed group activities/projects with individual input from students
• Class exercises to practice and develop skills
• Analysis/critique of relevant material
• Student presentations with Teacher and Peer feedback and review
• Personal class time to discuss and develop own work for assessment/presentation
Out of class activities may include:
• Practical work on presentation of work
• Investigation and research
• Preparing of work for presentations
• Project work
• Independent research
• Online research
You are expected to manage your learning and undertake an appropriate amount of out-of-class independent study and research.
The program aims to connect you with the "fun" aspects of drawing, and all the important principles necessary to visualise your ideas quickly and accurately.
This course will be delivered through face-to-face classes and by utilising the learning support material and resources here in Canvas.
There will be weekly drawing activities most weeks and you will be expected to attempt these during class time and practice them on your own time. It is essential to attend classes to take advantage of the expert tuition available to you.
Drawing is a complex learned skill that will take many, many hours to master. It is essential that you practice as much as you can.
Unlike most of the courses you study in this course runs over 2 semesters. You will receive feedback through the semester but your final grade will be entered once both semester have been complete.
Across the 32 weeks there will be opportunities for feedback on week 8, week 16 and week 24
Teaching Schedule
Part 1
| Week | Session Contents | Folio Tasks |
| 1 | Introduction to semester | |
| 2 | Introduction to drawing for 3D visualization. Basic two point perspective. Lineweight and usage. In class exercise. |
Activity 1.1: Basic 2 point perspective |
| 3 | Perspective above and below the line.Quality of line. In class exercise: Cuboids – two point perspective. |
Activity 1.1: Basic 2 point perspective. 2 best pages Activity 1.2: Cuboids Select x 2 best pages |
| 4 | Ellipses and circles in perspective | Activity 1.3: Elipse and Cylinder forms |
| 5 | Cylindricanes. In class drawing exercise. Introduction to annotation in drawings |
Activity 1.3: Elipse and Cylinder forms continued |
| 6 | In class drawing exercise, | Activity 1.4: Elgo (Lego) Block |
| 7 | Transformations exercise. Combinations exercise. |
Activity 1.5: Exterior Observational drawing |
| 8 | Student Feedback and Review. Folio and Technical drawing book review. Choosing a view. In class drawing exercise |
Activity 1.6: Hair dryer |
| 9 | Idea generation. Thumbnail drawing. In class drawing exercise. |
Activity 1.7: Pencil sharpener |
| 10 | Exploring 3D forms & detail in accurate proportion. Observational drawing Shadows and Shading |
Activity 1.8A: Adaptor. |
| 11 | Concept development. Drawing composition. Presenation of ideas In class drawing exercise |
Activity 1.9: Blood glucose monitor Basic shadding and drop shadows |
| 12 | Concept development. Drawing composition reinforcement. In class drawing exercise. |
Activity 1.10: Two way radio |
| 13 | Detail development drawing composition. In class drawing exercise, |
Activity 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 | |
| Part 2 | ||
| 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 | Automotive sketching, introduction. Large format sketch. Profile and Elevation |
Activity 2.7: Automotive sketching, |
| 10 | Automotive sketching, continued. Perspective sketching | Activity 2.7: Automotive sketching, finalise |
| 11 | Exploring complex forms. Construction details and features. External drawings of Architectural features | Activity 2.8: Construction details |
| 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 up and review week | |
| 15 | Folio review and compilation | |
| 16 | Assessment task 1, 2 and 3 due | |
| Note: The course schedule may change throughout the year to accommodate student requirements. |
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: Technical drawing book
Assessment Task 2: Drawing Folio
Assessment Task 3: Submission of drawing folio and technical drawing book
Assessment Matrix
Sample Matrix
CriteriaRatings
This criterion is linked to a learning outcome1: Experimentation with materiality and techniques Demonstrate an understanding of the role of drawing as a communication tool. Produce work that demonstrates an adherence to appropriate OH&S workshop practices. Demonstrate an understanding of the capability of materials that support drawing. Demonstrate an understanding of equipment and tools that support safe working practices. Drawings should show experimentation and selection of a variety of media and technique including digital, pen and pencil.| Satisfactory | Not Satisfactory |
| Satisfactory | Not Satisfactory |
| Satisfactory | Not Satisfactory |
| NOT SATISFACTORY | BEGINNING | DEVELOPING | ACCOMPLISHED | EXEMPLARY |
| NOT SATISFACTORY | BEGINNING | DEVELOPING | ACCOMPLISHED | EXEMPLARY |
| NOT SATISFACTORY | BEGINNING | DEVELOPING | ACCOMPLISHED | EXEMPLARY |
Other Information
Teaching schedule may vary according to students and task requirements
Information is correct at time of publishing
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