PORTRAIT STUDY (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAP 232
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

This course will enable the students to-

  1. Summarize step by step approach to building up a tone and color in black and white, monochrome and colored mediums along with drapery.
  2. Learn how to render the portrait from massing in the general shapes of the face to shading the more detailed features.
  3. Learn about drawing concepts such as negative shapes and rhythms, which will help to create a more accurate, yet natural-looking looking.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

           Course

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

 

 

 

VAP 232

 

 

 

Portrait Study

 (Practical)

The students will -

CO17: Develop visual literacy and observation.

CO18: Explore and perceive drawing skills of portrait in artworks.

CO19: Understand how to draw a technically accurate face, construct a head and its features.

CO20: Able to construct and study the portrait of live model in varied angles of face in varied mediums.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration.

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

Semester end examinations, Continuous Assessment Test, Sketching, layouts, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, regular ,display and submission of artworks.

COURSE CONTENT:

Study of portrait from life, delineation of the structure and the character of head, study of features, study of light and shade, in monochrome and color with drapery at the background in Pencil, Charcoal, Pastels .

 

References: 

Suggested Text Books /Suggested Reference Books

  • Massey, Carole, Drawing Masterclass; Portraits, Kent (United Kingdom) : Search Press
  • Dutt. Ravi, Evergreen Shading Techniques(Portraits-I), Reader,s World
  •  Smith, Oil Painting Portraits, Dorling Kindersley
  •  Rodwell, Painting Portraits, London : Eagle Edition Ltd., 2004
  • Reichert,Tricia, Portrait Painting :  Expert Answers to the Questions Every Artiry Artist Asks, Britain : Search PreSs, 2013

E-Resources:

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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