The document outlines a training session on developing drawing skills to communicate ideas. It covers selecting appropriate drawing techniques for representing ideas, experimenting with drawing tools and materials, and practicing techniques like continuous line drawing and blind contour drawing. The session aims to clarify the purpose of drawings, identify suitable techniques, select tools and materials, and have students draw ideas using the techniques. Assessment tasks involve a blind contour drawing and written questions to demonstrate understanding of concepts covered.

1. CUVACD201A
Develop Drawing Skills
to Communicate Ideas
Component of the CUV11 Visual Arts, Craft and Design Training Package.
Presented by Jennifer KING
11th February, 2013

2. 1. INTRODUCTION:
- Safety and OHS considerations/ Objectives/ Structure/ Prior
knowledge, a little about you
5-7MIN
2.
3.
DEVELOPING DRAWING SKILLS TO DEVELOP IDEAS:
KNOWLEDGE
-What is the purpose of drawing?/ Investigate drawing
materials/ Experiment with mark making- the pencil
SKILLS
- BLIND- continuous line drawing
- Continuous line drawing/ Compare and critique.
20 min
4. FEEDBACK written form
NEXT TIME WE MEET….
5 min
5. ASSESSMENT:
-Assessment task One- Drawing exercise
-Assessment task two- Written question and answer task
10 min

3. ‘Drawing is . . . not an
exercise of particular dexterity,
but above all a means of
expressing intimate feelings
and moods.’
Henri Matisse
PART 2

4. Drawing Techniques
Drawing techniques refer to the way drawing materials can be
applied to communicate an idea. Watch this YouTubevideo on
Graphite Techniques
Techniques include continuous line drawing, cross hatching and
hatching, blending, rendering, pen and ink, ink wash, scrafitto,
trois crayons, weight drawing, gestural plus many more

5. Van Gogh, Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888 (Reed pen, quill,
and ink over graphite on wove paper; 24.3 x 31.7 cm).

6. Leonardo De Vinci
Grotesque Profile, c. 1487-90
Ink on paper
"The noblest pleasure
is the joy of
understanding.”
Leonardo

7. FACE (CLAUDE)
charcoal on paper
40.5 x 30 cm.
Private Collection
1946
"If I trust my drawing hand it
is because in training it to
serve me, I forced myself
never to let it take precedence
over my feelings.”
Matisse

8. "Picasso ended up where
normally he should have
started." It's true; but in
order to achieve his pure
and linear rendering of
the bull, he had to pass
through all of the
intermediary stages. And
when you stand before
his eleventh bull, it's hard
to imagine the work that
went into it"...
Pablo Picasso, Les
11 états successifs
de la lithography Le
Taurean , 1945.

9. Drawing is a visual language…
How have these artists and others
used the various drawing
techniques to represent ideas.
Review and discuss.
CONSIDER SOME OF THE ELEMENTS OF Art AND
DESIGN: (line, colour, value, shape, form, space, texture)
The art material/ thickness of a line/ the weight of a line/
how quickly the mark is made/ the position of the marks
on a page/ how the marks were made and what they
represent.

10. Drawing materials
Lets look and experiment with the physical
properties and capabilities of tools and materials
commonly used for drawing

11. Lets look and
experiment with
the physical
properties and
capabilities of
tools and
materials
commonly used
for drawing
Graphite Pencils

12. Paper Types & Sizes

13. Take a Line for a walk…
Experiment with a variety of graphite pencils to see
how you can vary the thickness of a line by the way
you hold your pencil. Draw a number of continuous
lines down your page.
What do you notice?

14. ‘It is only by drawing often,
drawing everything, drawing
incessantly, that one fine day
you discover to your surprise that
you have rendered something in
its true character.’
Camille Pissarro
PART 3

15. Free yourself up!
• Breathing and
posture
• Good mental
attitude
• Have fun!

16. The exercise called ‘blind drawing’ because it shows that when we do not
take both the paper and the subject into account (when we are not
comparing our own results with the world as it appears to us) we end up
with a poor result, as if we are drawing blindly’. Watch this video so you
have an idea.

17. What you’ll need
A3 Paper
4B pencil
Masking Tape
A stimulus image to draw
In this session, we will play the traditional game of
drawing blind. Focusing on the image only, you will
try to get proportion and distance correct in a contour
drawing, without looking at the paper.
Draw the image in front of you and remember not to
look!
Training your eyes and training your brain to see
what is in front of you

18. OBJECTIVES-
Did we meet all the objectives?
1.1 Clarify purpose of drawings with appropriate
people.
1.2 Identify suitable techniques to represent ideas
1.3 Select tools and materials required for selected
techniques
2.4 Draw ideas using selected techniques
Final questions?
FUTURE- Next training session will cover elements
1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5
PART 4

19. Assessment Tasks
Time for you to test what you’ve learnt
PART 5

20. You will be required to complete two assessment
tasks to demonstrate your understanding of the
concepts covered today. You will have 10 minutes.
1. ASSESSMENT TASK:
Blind, continuous line contour drawing using your
own chosen stimulus.
2. ASSESSMENT TASK:
Written task- answer a series of 6 questions related to
the content you have learnt today.
FEEDBACK form

21. DET portal resources-Sites2See
Paper types
Drawing Excercises
Draw it-Basic drawing excercises (TALE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3LiR_pvsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKHVqbM_xLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjJhZ4DYh50
http://youtu.be/GXeIf-fpawo