1324QCA Drawing Foundations
concepts, techniques and structures of drawing practice
Queensland College of Art,
South Bank,
Griffith University
Semester 1
Year: 2020
Drawing is foundational to the fine arts, design, photography, film, fashion, jewellery, games, architecture, engineering, software and networking, the performing arts, advertising, media, the sciences and mathematics (to name a few). In this fine arts foundation course, I have learnt fundamental drawing skills in the broad context of drawing’s conceptual and historical compass.
A subtractive drawing is erasure and focuses on light values, being a reversal from an additive process that tends to be focused on outlines and shadows.
Images: Sourced Queensland College of Art, Griffith University resources, https://bblearn.griffith.edu.au/.
Chiaroscuro is an Italian term that means ‘light-dark’, chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark. It is used to describe drawings that apply systems of value to give illusions of form and space on a 2D surface by translating lighting effects.
Kinetic Body, Gesture, Movement, Performance
One of the great deceptions in the practice of life drawing is that the human body can be utterly static. It has become an assumption in life drawing that the model will engage in a very strange sort of endurance performance. It’s called posing and requires that a human body remain absolutely motionless for anywhere from 30 seconds to an hour. Professional models take great pride in the skill and concentration required to perform in this manner.
From the root [ortho=straight + graphe=drawing], orthographic drawings show a single, flat view in schematic terms. An orthographic view of the top of a cylinder and an orthographic view of a sphere would appear the same: a circle. Artists, photographers and designers often begin first sketches as orthographic drawings as a means of understanding a space, object or idea.