Course Details

Figure Drawing

Academic Year 2025/26

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

winter

Course Guarantor

MgA. Václav Kočí, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/294866

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