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(ELECTIVE COMPULSORY)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The aim of the course is to present the basic principles and concepts of Freehand Drawing, focusing on the detailed design of natural objects, their tonal performance and the compositional choices that will best render the drawn objects. Also, by practicing the design process, students will achieve the improvement of their visual perception and observation. In the theoretical part of the Course, the basic principles and concepts of Freehand Drawing are developed, the ways of observation and rendering, form, shading and tonal values in a work of art are analyzed and the primary visual elements in the design of objects are approached. In the laboratory part of the course, the form and light in Freehand Drawing, the design perception and the creative approach to the selected topics are developed, which students are asked to develop in their physical studies.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• identify the basic principles and concepts of Free Drawing
• achieve detailed design of objects from the natural 
• understand the basic elements of form that make up the structural skeleton of form
• render tonal scales and tonal rendering of colors 
• create with shading balances of contrasts and harmonies
• classify and correlate the vocabulary of Free Drawing that will be used in other analog and digital drawing courses

COURSE CONTENT

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. The Idea in Art – Goals and Applications of Free Drawing. Development of the basic principles and concepts of Free Design. 

2. Basic rules - Requirements - Clarity of the design 

3. Relative spacing of objects. Topic placement. Analog design

4. The rendering of light in Art. Analysis of the way of observation and rendering, form, shading, and tonal values in a work of art. 

5. The rendering of the interpretation of tones and creation in Art.

6. Symmetry and Asymmetry. The visual weights.

7. Curvature and Curvature.

8. Theory of Perspective

9. Shadow in Art

10. The scales (gradations) of black

11. The performance of the human head 

12. Portraiture, Types of portraiture 

13. Human body proportions

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Basic rules of free drawing - Necessary tools and materials

2. Placement of the subject - The rendering of the subject proportionally on our paper - Position during drawing

3. Exercising measurements from the physical drawing model using the needle, transferring the inclinations of the objects to the drawing surface 

4. Observation and recognition of natural shapes - Light and illumination, Relative brightness, luminous surface, shading and tones, illumination of objects from different light sources

5. Tone quality, molding or molding-object color and tonal gradients of writing

6. Logical Composition Schematization, Balance, Symmetry- Form and Subtraction, 

7. Shapes and lines, analysis of curves on lines, convexity and sphericality - transparency in objects, Bearing objects, Stylization

8. Perspective - surface lines - contrasts (contrasts), level gradations, outline or framing and framing of subjects

9. Shadows (texture), shadows in specific positions, the background 

10. Charcoal design and its techniques

11. Design of casts - busts

12. Stages of performing portraiture, study of facial anatomy, self-portrait

13. Human body performance, human limb performance (arms, legs) -Human body movement performance

EVALUATION

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Presentation of papers (drawings): 75%
• Submission of individual artistic creation with theoretical accompanying support: 25%

TEACHING - LEARNING METHODS

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform

eCLASS COURSE

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/3370/

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Arfaras Michalis, 2001, Freehand Drawing - Volume I - Pencil Compositions, Ion
• Arfaras Michalis, 2003, Free Drawing - Volume II - The Man, Ion

Extra Bibliography

• Vakalo, E. G., Optical Syntax, ed. Nefeli, Athens
• Herbert L. R. Contemporary Art, SCHIMA Publications.
• Klee P. (1989). Visual thinking. The courses at the Bauhaus school. Volume I & II. Trans. Ed. Melissa Publications.
• Gombrich E. The Chronicle of Art, MIET
• Itten, G., Art of Color, Texts of Visual Artists 5, Association of Teachers of Visual Arts, 1998
• Kandinsky, V., Point, Line on the surface, Athens 1980
• Karystinos, P., Stefos N., Free Drawing, Professor's book, Pedagogical Institute
• Lambraki-Plaka, M., The Treatises on Painting – Alberti and Leonardo, Vikelaia Municipal Library, 1988
• Merleau-Ponty, M. (1991). Cézanne's doubt. The eye and the spirit. Nefeli Publications