Course info

 COURSE NAME:               HUMAN FIGURE DRAWING   V

CODE:                                             BAE/ART/3103

COURSE LEVEL                 YEAR III SEM I

CREDIT UNIT:                   3 CU

COURSE LEADER:          

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

 

·         This course introduces students to drawing the whole human figure or its body parts in different poses through direct visual observation i.e. drawing from a model. Students will also execute drawings from memory and imagination. Students will study form, shape, proportions, anatomy, drapery and other elements of human figure drawing.

·         The course will link as a service discipline to other courses offered. Students are not expected to rush to create tones and shades because this “kills” the drawing. Learners need to understand and master the basic human structures including but also supported by dispensing the inner skeletal structure and later muscles should be built onto the skeletal structure.    

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 

By the end of the course, students should be able to:-

·         Make good studies and draw on paper different body parts of a human being showing

how they do behave when in different poses; such body parts include the head, the neck, the chest, arms, hands, knees, legs and the feet

·         Use ideas learnt from this course unit to produce good drawings of human beings in other

       art areas such as in graphics, paintings and in sculpture.

 

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

 

·         Learners will be able to explore the language of human body drawing as a means of artistic expression

they will also able to understand the principles and elements of drawing, methods                                             by using different art media to draw.

·         Students will have been exposed to different objects, scenes and other things, where by the observation of such things evokes their analytical powers to observe anything in their sight.

·         To understand different styles of formulating the human body by using lines, tone etc and by drawing from observation.

 

 

DETAILED COURSE OUTLINE