Course detail

Creative Drawing

FSI-YKIAcad. year: 2014/2015

The course it helps students, on the basis of their talent, to extent their theoretical and practical knowledge that is necessary for drawing. It is focused on drawing of an industrial product in a perspective view. The course is a preparation for industrial design workshops.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Dana Rubínová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students acquire the basic knowledge of drawing. Drawing exercises by a model, creative drawing and associated drawing without a model is the base for mastering skill and acquiring of important habits for the creative process of drawing.

Prerequisites

The course is a follow-up to "Fundamentals of Drawing", "Geometric Objects Drawing", "Still-life Drawing" and "Drawing of Product". Elementary knowledge of the perspective drawing is assumed, as well as the ability to apply it in the course of the construction of drawing in the surface and wide experience with the drawing of still-life, industrial products including the expression of various characters, materials and surfaces in a perspective view by the model.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Creative work in ateliers.

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 course objective is to enhance students’ knowledge of drawing as the basic type of visual record and to develop students` creativity. Practical exercises emphasize building-up the mass in the surface and proportion of objects.

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

The attendance in education is controlled. Missed lessons are compensated according to the agreement with a lecturer (e.g. a compensatory project is assigned). The excuse of absence is possible only due serious reasons such as illness. Unexcused absence and absence greater than 50% /including excused lessons/ may jeopardise awarding the graded course-unit credit.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HENRY, Kevin. Drawing for Product Designers. 2. Indianapollis: Laurence King, 2013. ISBN 978-1-85669-743-9.
STUER, Roselien. Sketching. Drawing Techniques for Product Designers. BIS, 2007. ISBN 9789063691714. (CS)

Recommended literature

TERMES, Emma, CAMPOS, Cristian, ed. Product Design Sketches. Indianapollis: booQs, 2012. ISBN 978-94-60650-66-6.
ZHANG, Lei. Product Sketchbook. Idea, Process and Refinement. CYPI Press, 2015. ISBN 9781908175687 (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B3901-3 Bachelor's

    branch B-PDS , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory