PORTRAIT (Practical)

Paper Code: 
25DVAP503
Credits: 
06
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to Building emphasis on the drawing character and making them understand and illustrate each stage of a portrait from initial outline to the finished work in individual style. Analysis and demonstrates technical details and measurements in detail. Exemplifying and exploring varied mediums – Acrylic color, Pen/Pencil, Charcoal, Dry/Oil pastels, Mixed-media, Oil colors, Water colors, etc.

 

Course Outcomes: 

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Learning Outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

25DVAP503

Portrait (Practical)

CO13: Make a layout of a model with their skill while observing and analysing the features and shadows of the model with appropriate medium.

 

CO14: Construct drawings in proper measurement and prepare a submission with global needs used in a person's portrait to make in given mediums.

 

CO15: Develop a skill for face rendering considering its proportion, expression and resemblance while making an accurate portrait (denotative form).

 

CO16: Justify given submissions of portraits which prioritize the character and validate the necessary elements like proportion, balance, background and foreground etc.

 

CO17: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion,

Ideation, Tutorials, Assignments, Brainstorming, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students: Self-Learning Assignments, Giving Tasks, Visualization, Experimenting, Sketching to Learn, Free Exploration, Focused Exploration.

Layouts & Sketches, Continuous Assessment Test, Semester End  Examinations, Daily Assignments, Observation, Student Teacher Interaction and Final Submissions

COURSE CONTENT:

 

Advance study completes with the foreground and the background, character of the portrait and the expression, composition in different settings, development of personal style.

 

Submission:   7 works in Oil colour/ Acrylic/ Mix medium (Half Imperial canvass)

5 sketches of portrait study per day

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Mc Donald, Jesse, Michelangelo, PRC Publishing Ltd., 2002
  2. Smith, Oil Painting Portraits, Dorling Kindersley,
  3. Ranson, Oils, London: Brockhampton Press,

 

 

References: 

1.     Reichert, Tricia, Portrait Painting: Expert Answers to the Questions Every Artiry Artist Asks, Britain: Search Prees, 2013

2.     Jones, Rosie, Portraits in Princely India:1700-1947, Mumbai: Marg Publication, 2008.

            E-Resources:

  1. Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner pdf - BooksFree
  2. Drawing pdf | mysite (artbypaulclark.co.uk)
  3. https://youtu.be/rcfMSeilPkg
  4. https://youtu.be/ekFvihafxMY

 

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026
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