Course Details

Figure Drawing

Academic Year 2024/25

VGC001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

The course develops creative thinking skills through the study of drawing the human figure. It focuses on mastering the art of elementary relations (size, scale, canon, composition, rhythm, perspective, space and matter), as well as advanced mastery of drawing as a way of thinking and a means of expression. The acquired knowledge will help students develop the ability to sense and display space and matter as necessary attributes of architectural design.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Assume the basic drawing skills proven by aptitude test.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1st Starting and relaxation exercises - composition and format
  • 2nd The proportions of the human body - canon
  • 3rd Construction of the human body - supporting system - Skeleton - study
  • 4th The morphology of the human body - the muscular system - muscular - study
  • 5th Nude - Exercise fast drawings - sketch
  • 6th Nude - Exercise fast drawings - sketch
  • 7th Nude - Linear construction - study
  • 8th Nude - Linear construction - study
  • 9th Nude - dimensional modeling - study
  • 10th Nude - dimensional modeling - study
  • 11th Nude - dimensional modeling - study
  • 12th Nude - valeric drawing - study
  • 13th Nude - valeric drawing - study