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2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

DESN0010 Visual Research and Drawing

20 creditsClass Size: 20

Module manager: Dr Kevin Laycock
Email: K.laycock@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

The module content is designed to introduce students to a wide range of visual research skills and to emphasize the importance of visual research to designers.

Students will be introduced to contemporary and historical research and will learn how to contextualize this through their own emerging practice. Students will also be introduced to a series of drawing processes; through this they will develop their own drawing style.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. conduct visual research from a wide range of sources;
2. assess visual information, ideas and intentions in a meaningful way and to have reached the early stages of developing their own visual language;
3. appreciate contemporary, historical and cultural contexts in relation to their own emerging practice;
4. draw from the observed sources;
5. understand of the concept of perspective as a drawing device;


Syllabus

On completion of this module students will be able to conduct visual research from a wide range of primary and secondary sources including contemporary, historic and cultural contexts.

The module will focus on the use, organisation and editing of research material from sketch books, notebooks and journals. The module encourages an awareness of current trends in the visual arts and promotes individual and group debate.

Taught sessions in observational and expressive drawing form an important part of the syllabus and thus provide a sound foundation for good design practice.

Topics will include:

1. linear drawing techniques
2. chiarroscuro
3. enlargement and reduction
4.. Still life drawing
5. mark making
6. principles of perspective

Studio-based projects will emphasise creative thinking, planning and organisation as a way of developing good professional practice. The module includes two studio based projects with an equal assessment weighting

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Practical113.0033.00
Private study hours167.00
Total Contact hours33.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)200.00

Private study

- Library research: 30 hours
- Portfolio preparation: 117 hours
- Editing and presentation: 20 hours.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Critiques given at appropriate stages of the module during semesters one (a minimum of two per project)
- Submission of projects in weeks three, six, and eleven
- Regular contact with relevant staff members.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
PortfolioProject 1. Visual Research/Observational Drawing (drawing techniques, chiaroscuro). Submission consists of a sketchbook, 2 x A2 final drawings and a research file.50.00
PortfolioProject 2. Visual Research / Observational Drawing: submission is a sketchbook, 2 x A2 drawings and a research file50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 18/08/2016

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