Sketching and Perspectives

Course Code
BID 103
Course Title
Sketching and Perspectives
Course Description

Freehand drawing is still relevant today even in the current digital age. Instead of just relying on the mind, freehand drawing engages eyes as well as hand. This way, the three (eye, mind, and hand) coordinate and inform the quality of the image to be drawn as close to the way a person intends. Freehand drawing also ensures forming of important DECISION-MAKING ROUTINES (DMRs) as related to sketching that have significant impact on design. DMRs ensure that through freehand drawing, a student is taken back to the roots of drawing becoming qualitatively aware of the process through which 2D and 3D graphics are put together to solve a certain functional, programmatic, aesthetic, psychological, and social problem. Freehand drawing is also a very good means of exciting the visual side of the students that increasingly assists them in visual thinking, something that a designer is primarily responsible for. Given this, the course aims to introduce the students to the basics of free hand sketching and perspectives. It starts with warm up line drawing and shading exercises that build up students’ confidence. Later on, they are engaged in 2D and 3D studies of different basic solids. Shades and shadows form one part of the course, not to mention one-point and two-point exterior and interior perspectives. Live drawing is another instruction method that is used to sharpen the observation and eye-mind-hand coordination. The end result of this course is to enable students conceive design ideas and express them well on paper or a digital surface.

Prerequisites
None
Credits
4
Course Type
Theory, Lab
Offered
Fall