COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
VCD1123 Drawing Fall 2 2 3 7

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Must Course
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN
Course Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. HASAN KEMAL SUHER
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The aim of the course is comprehend the difference between looking and seeing by examining three-dimensional and two-dimensional object with putting forward the three basic drawing methods such as perspective- proportion- light and shadow. Other objectives of the course are to teach how to sketch and provide a basic infrastructure for drawing practice. In order to do this the course guides the students to discover their own abilities and underlines drawing and sketching are cognitive skills that can be learned and improved. Also, the development of student’s perception and knowledge about the object’s movement by drawing sequentially from different angles and perspectives is aimed.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To grasp the difference between looking and seeing
2) To get used to the hand practices with the use of pen and paper and other drawing materials
3) To build the ability to create balance between the material drawn on paper
4) Gaining daily drawing routines
5) Revealing an idea with drawing
6) Creating and improving a visual memory by drawing the human body through out the workshops

Course Content

Course consists of 3 parts:
Learning the purpose oriented expression capacity of drawing materials such as pencil and paper and comprehending and applying the basic principles of proportion- perspective, light-shadow.
Obtaining an effect of motion by sequentially drawing an object or living creature from different angles.
Building a composition in order to express an idea by trying to create a meaning relations between linear compositions, objects or living creatures as models.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introducing of the course content and drawing materials.
2) Experimenting with the capacity of the pencil and paper by making sketches and warming up to drawing.
3) Determine proportions of an object and create a sense of depth (perspective). Doing perspective exercises of an object as model based on the information on horizon line and escape point.
4) Doing the work of perspective and proportion of an object as model (composition). The balances that facilitates the perception of a composition.
5) Learning the gray values from dark to light by pencil. The preparation of templates of gray values, giving volume to an object by light and shadow.
6) Drawing an object from different angle perspectives sequentially in the light of learned information and building compositions with these.
7) using the human body as a model to draw. Detection of the proportions.
8) The observation of human head drawn from different perspectives. Determine the proportion and perspective differences and obtaining an effect of motion by sequential drawings.
9) Sketch drawing of the human body movements.
10) Composition in order to express an idea by using an object or the human body, or both at the same time.
11) Designing a composition in order to express an idea in the light of learned information.
12) Evaluation and improvement of the composition.
13) Reviewing the composition in order to conclude.
14) Finalization of the composition. FINAL: Perspective / proportion/ bulking and composition will be evaluated.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References: Doug Dubosque; Learn to Draw Now;(Peel, 2000)
Ernest R. Norling; Perspective Made Easy; (Dover Publications,1999)
Doug Dubosque; Draw 3-D; (Peel,rev. ed.,2000)
Teel Sale, Claudia Betti; Drawing: a contemporary approach; Fifth Edition; (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004)
Tania Kovats; THE DRAWING BOOK a survey of drawing: the primary means of expression;(London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007)
Vitamin P New Perspectives in Painting; (London: PHAIDON, 2003)
Uri Shulevitz; WRITING WITH PICTURES How To Write and Illustrate Children’s Books;(New York: Watson-Guptill Publications,1997)
Wendy Tumminello; exploring STORYBOARDING;(Canada: Thomson/Delmar Learning ,2005)
Marcie Begleiter; from word to image storyboarding and the filmmaking process;(USA: Michael Wiese Publications,2001
Ed. Anna Held Audette; 100 Creative Drawing Ideas;(Boston & London: SHAMBALA,2004)

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Application 12 % 20
Homework Assignments 12 % 15
Midterms 1 % 25
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 56
Study Hours Out of Class 14 52
Homework Assignments 13 52
Midterms 1 4
Final 1 4
Total Workload 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Create design oriented application for the visual communication design field. 3
2) Resolve visual communication problems via concept based designs and an integrated perspective in the visual communication design field. 5
3) Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. 5
4) Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. 5
5) Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. 2
6) Identify complementary design solutions in the visual field in order to solve communication problems. 2
7) Perform necessary operational skills in order to finalize products in the visual communication design field. 2
8) Evaluate recent design trends and the evolving aesthetic perspectives. 2
9) Use recent design softwares that coincide with the developing information technologies and communication channels. 1
10) Interpret theoretical, historical and intellectual roots of the visual communication design field. 1
11) Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. 5
12) Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. 5
13) Display compositional solutions and aesthetic skills to fulfill design needs in a visual communication design work. 3
14) Develop academical, intellectual and critical point of view for global, local and individual visual communication design works. 4