Course detail

Open-air Drawing

FSI-YKO Acad. year: 2018/2019 Summer semester

The subject is focused on basic themes of drawing in the open air (a landscape, small architecture, architecture of historical buildings). The task is particularly to capture the objects within the observed compositions according to the rules of perspective projection, unambiguous statement of lines of individual objects or their parts. The course is organised as one week course.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Practising drawing in plain air allows students gaining habits for drawing smaller and bigger historical and modern architecture by drawing concrete objects in wider context of surroundings. Students will broaden their ability to capture the depth of spatial objects and natural elements that shape the environment.

Prerequisites

Elementary knowledge of the perspective drawing /including shadows and lights/ is assumed, as well as the ability of applying it to the construction of drawing in the surface and extent experience with the drawing of still-life and industrial products including different characters, materials and surfaces in a perspective view by the model.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through exercises in the open air.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: Attendance at exercises /one week course/, 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.

Aims

The aim of the subject in to get the students acquainted with the basics of drawing in exterior. The course focuses on drawing of landscape and architecture while following the rules of perspective. The task is to monitor the structure of displayed objects by reducing their shape and drawing the individual components and their position in the whole.

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

Compulsory attendance at seminars. Regarding the special character of the organization of the course the control of attendance is made by consultations of running results of drawings. Missed exercises are compensated according to the agreement with a lecturer (e.g. a compensatory project is assigned).

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B3A-P: Applied Sciences in Engineering, Bachelor's
branch B-PDS: Industrial Design, compulsory

Type of course unit