Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On this course you will learn the basics of figure drawing. You will master the ability to depict plastic form, volume, light and shadow with your drawing.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 08.01.2024 - 08.04.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Marja Nurminen, Westerberg-Aboularoih

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

hanna.westerberg@aalto.fi

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Practising how to convey and compose proportion, volume, mass, light and shade in life drawing.

• applies in this implementation

  See course content on the frontpage. 

  
  

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Assessment criteria: Personal progress of the student and the ability to express and utilize what they have learned.

• applies in this implementation

  •  Personal progress of the student and the ability to express and utilize what he or she has learned.

  • • Course completion requires at least 80% attendance and completion of assigned work given by the teachers by a specific deadline.
    • Students are requested to notify the teacher via e-mail, whose classes you are
      absent from of any absence due to illness or another serious reason.
    • If you are sick, make a substitute assignment which you will be given by the teachers
    
    

  
  
  

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Excercises: 84h, Independent work: 78h.

DETAILS

Study Material

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  John Raynes: Complete Anatomy and Figure Drawing (2007)

• applies in this implementation

  
  

  
  

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Language : English

  Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn I - II
  2022-2023 Spring III - IV
  2023-2024 Autumn I - II
  2023-2024 Spring III - V

  Enrollment :

  Registration for Courses: Sisu.

  Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts

  
  Minimum amount of participants is 8 students. Maximum amount of participants is 20 students.

   

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