Course Title: Drawing-III

Course Code:  TXD-201            

Credit Hours: 3(0-3)

Visiting Lecturer: Aneela Noor

Email: [email protected]

Course Description:

Live drawing and figure composition are going to be the focus of this subject. It will not only help the students to draw figure compositions more accurately but will also help in creating a relationship between figure and architecture. The idea of illusion and movement will be learnt through different assignments.

Learning Outcomes:

After the successful completion of this course students will be able to

·         To draw the human figure accurately displaying normative proportional relationship of body’s parts to the whole.

·         Students will depict the figure in a variety of poses using foreshortening.

·         Students will draw architectural drawings so that illusion of volume is achieved through a variety of shading techniques, such as, graduated continuous tones, lines, and cross hatching.

·         Students will convey gesture, the illusion of expressive movement, when drawing the figure spontaneously in very brief periods of time.

      Course Content:  

·         Hands and Feet Practice

·         Hands and feet Practice in Pencil (once in a week throughout the semester)

·         Hands and feet Practice in water color (twice in a month till mid-term exam)

·         Hands and feet with still life and other experiments (once in a month after mid-term exam )

·         Life Drawing

·         Life Drawing Practice in Pencil (once in a week throughout the semester)

·         Life Drawing Practice in water color (twice in a month till mid-term exam)

·         Life Drawing with experimental Backgrounds (once in a monthmid-term exam )

·         Compositions

·         Arranged Still Life Compositions (once in a week throughout the semester)

·         Disarranged Still Life Compositions (once in a week throughout the semester)

·         Figurative Compositions (Overlapping) (once in a week after mid-term exam)

Recommended Books:

1)      Civardi, Giovanni.  The Art of Drawing,  Search Press; 2010

2)      Thomas, Paul and Taylor, Anita. Drawing Foundation Course, Cassell Illustrated; 2003

3)      Civardi, Giovanni. Drawing Techniques,Search Press; 2006

4)      Ilatovskaya, Tatiana. Master Drawing,Harry N. Abrams; 1st edition, 1996