Course detail

Drawing of Head

FSI-YKH-AAcad. year: 2011/2012

The course is a follow up to "Draving of Product" and "Still-life Drawing". It enables students to acquire the ability to express their own visual experience, visions and ideas. It starts out from the studies of basic technical and natural shapes, discovers their architecture, relationships, proportions and details. It focuses on drawing the head using a model.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course enables students to extend their basic knowledge of drawing. Practising drawing according to the model is the base for acquiring and mastering skills and basic knowledge needed for building-up the mass and character of head in the surface.

Prerequisites

The knowledge of the perspective and its practical use in the course of drawing construction in the surface /with the emphasize to proportion/ and extend experience with still-life drawing, industrial products is expected as well as the expression of mass and basic characters of a model.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: Attendance at exercises, meeting assigned projects deadlines.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on tasks (drawings). In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim is to enhance students knowledge of drawing as the basic type of visual record. Practical exercises focus on building-up the mass in the surface, the character and proportion of heads to develop students creativity.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The attendance in education is controlled every lesson. Missing lessons are compensate by settle with a lecturer or it is resolve with the compensatory project. The excuse of absence is possible only due similar reasons as by work law, e.g. illness. Unexcused absence can lead to give no accreditation. When absence is greater 50% /for excused lessons too/, accreditation may not be given.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Larousse: Umění a lidstvo,Odeon, Praha 1974
Jiří Ševčík, Pavlína Morganová, Dagmar Dušková: České umění 1938-1989 /programy/kritické texty/dokumenty/, Akademia, Praha 2001
Edward Lucie-Smith: Art today, Slovart, Praha 1996

Recommended reading

José Pijoan: Dějiny umění 1-12, Odeon/Euromedia-Knižní klub a Balios, Praha 1986/2000, 2003
Josef Zrzavý: Anatomie pro výtvarníky, Avicentrum, Praha 1977
Česká periodika: Umělec, Art&Antiques, Atelier, Detail /1995-2000/, Výtvarné umění /1990-1996/, Prostor Zlín, Bulletin Moravské galerie v Brně

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2A-P Master's

    branch M-PDS , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

labs and studios

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Halina Keilová

Syllabus

Skull drawing using a model, rules for construction;
Skull drawing using a model;
Skull drawing using a model;
Head drawing using a plaster bust, rules for construction;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Head drawing using a plaster bust;
Evaluation of semester work, analysing positives and negatives of several drawings.