Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

INTRODUÇÃO AO DESENHO - 2021/2022

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 5.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Joana Pimentel
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Joana Pimentel

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 6 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The Course of Introduction to Drawing has as general objective the development of the capacities to understand the basic principles of representation. It is intended that the student acquires the basic knowledge of representation: structure, dimensioning, proportionality - and thus be able to graphically represent any type of model that is proposed to him.

Specific Aims/Objectives

In the specific objectives will be developed the basic structural elements of the plastic language: point, line, stain; the light value (light-dark). The theoretical knowledge and the practical realization will be the primordial means to reach the level of knowledge intended.
The drawing will be felt and understood as the first tool of the transmission of thought, reasoning and feeling.

Skills to be acquired

The student should acquire and develop the ability to look, see, observe and represent.
- Analyze the design of shape and structuring geometry: simple or articulated elements;
- To know the drawing process and the fundamentals of representation;
- Know how to use qualifying resources: light and shadow, tone and texture and color theory.

Teaching Procedures

The teaching methodology is based on two main groups: the theory of drawing and the practice of drawing. It will be of great importance the theoretical knowledge of the thinking of great authors, conducive to the materialization of this same thought in the student´s response to the practical realization proposals that are suggested to him.

Programme

The Course of the Introduction to Drawing course unit is divided into theoretical blocks of different themes and their respective practical application, through the proposed exercises during and outside of class time.
In theory:
Understand drawing as a visual language. Line characteristics and nature: thickness, gradation, gesture, intensity. Linear Perspective. The characteristics of spatiality. Shadow gradations in the simulation of the third dimension. The properties of the form. Two-dimensional/three-dimensional relationship, flat shapes and shapes with volume. The main optical conditions of visual dynamism. Composition studies.
On a practical level: 1st Block - The various exercises proposed will be performed with different techniques (graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencils, pen, etc.). Observational drawing exercises: human figure, object drawing and natural shapes drawing. Composition exercises: sketches, gestures and expressions and analytical drawing.
2nd Block - drawing in the space outside the classroom (University Campus). The student thus realizes that the exercise of drawing is essential to the understanding and representation of reality; whether they are models of the natural or the constructed.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation is continuous and focuses especially on the fulfillment of the proposals of work carried out during the teaching time destined to the Curricular Unit.
The student is required to complete the assignments proposed in the different evaluation moments.

Teaching Resources

- Computers with internet access;
- Specialized bibliography available in UL library;
- Indication of key texts for learning, elements for the elaboration of research works and other information deemed relevant;
- Multimedia material (documentaries, images, etc.);
- Conduct study visits, whenever considered appropriate. (To be done in extra curricular time).

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Think;
Feel;
Observe;
Have perception;
Analyze;
Draw.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography