This course is intended especially for those students who perceive possibilities of a drawing discipline as useful and inspiring ones, even though they have already taken a clear view in the discipline they are studying. After exploring the possibilities of the given medium and the student's individual abilities, a project will be determined and characterized for the student to work on. The course is based on both common and individual searching for connotations of terms such as proportion, construction, motif, line, shape, expressing the character of a material, various drawing techniques and their artistic effect, light and shade, considered, exaggerated or no perspective, harmonic as well as provocative composing according to size, experiment, and on creative use of these elements in individual projects. A course of drawing is based above all on drawing according to models. The students are required to master proportions, construction, and the model build, expression of the material character (hard-soft, light-heavy, smooth-rough, etc.), mastering various techniques of drawing, their graphic appeal, techniques of observation, perception of the object, and sorting information. The students investigate nature products, objects from various materials, their compositionality, proportion, and location in the space. Further, they study the head, half figure, and act; they search for the gravity axis, utilization of the light and shade, analysis of the relation between the whole and a detail, and composition in a format. During the course, the students use various techniques and materials (charcoal, pencil, sepia, ink, Indian ink, crayon, oil crayon), and their combinations. In addition to the exercises according to a model, the students are continuously assigned individual tasks, which are more focused on their graphic creativity and individual approach. 1. Introduction to the semester - specification of technical and material requirements. 2. Objects - space, perspective, proportions. 3. Techniques of drawing and its overlaps, assigning a semestral project. 4. Objects - light, shade, structure: surfaces, textures, materials. 5. Objects - graphic shorthand, plurality, characteristics of the whole. 6. Interior - free drawing of a chosen interior. 7. Collage and drawing on an assigned topic. 8. Black and white - grisaille on toned paper. 9. Anthropocentrism in visual art - skull. 10. Study of a head - anatomic: characteristics, motion. 11. Study of a head - for a portrait. 12. Study of a head from the point of view of prehistoric or non-European art. 13. Study of a half-figure - free.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
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Hart, Christopher. Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy. Watson-Guptill Public, 2000.
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