Graphics and 3D design: drawing

Number of hours per year: 60h
Credit allocation: 4

Objectives and/or skills

• In their working life future computer graphics designers will have to express themselves through different sketches for graphic purposes, advertising purposes, etc. The objective of the drawing course is to progressively lead students to master the various difficulties in the field of explanatory drawing, dialogue drawing or observational drawing thanks to the practical study of basic drawing notions and of its formal components and thanks to the study of examples of contemporary artists and designers.
• This training programme in drawing aims to develop skills linked to:
  • the production of 2D or 3D projects, layouts, 2D or 3D illustrations in computer graphics fields at large.
  • the application of fundamental graphic principles and rules, project management, creativity in the computer graphics field
  • surface, line, texture, light, volume, etc.
  • experimentation of supports, tools and techniques specific to drawing
  • practical approach to observational, representation, imagination and expression drawing
  • approach to volume and 3D modelling
  • approach to contemporary drawing and graphic design through research, visit to exhibitions, lectures, etc.
• This course arouses students’ artistic curiosity, enables them to better master the technical and conceptual means of computer graphics at large and, through various workshops, encourages students to open up to the digital culture, which is the basis of their future work as graphics designers.
• At the end of the programme students will be able to:
  • familiarize with a project and respect the briefing
  • determine the appropriate steps and production means to carry out a project
  • design a presentation model and present it to the client
  • assemble works according to the models and conceptual specifications and create the layout
  • have a critical and self-critical mind in accordance with the realities of the job and the current state of graphic design
  • produce a successfully completed graphics work.

Contents and/or production

• Observational drawing
• Character study
• Composition study
• Matters and volume
• The various drawing and modelling techniques (sculpture)
• Light and shade
• Approach to colour
• Approach to present trends and currents.

Tools and/or references

• L’art de la couleur, J. Itten
• Morphologie externe du corps humain, J. Civardi

Assessment

• Continuous assessment
• Practical exams in lab and/or in workshop