Course Details

Figure Drawing

Academic Year 2022/23

VGC001 course is part of 2 study plans

BPC-VP Summer Semester 1st year

BPC-VP Winter Semester 1st year

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.

Course Guarantor

MgA. Václav Kočí, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Prerequisites

Assume the basic drawing skills proven by aptitude test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/254971

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