Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

The ability to utilise the language of drawing facilitates description, recording, synthesis, analysis, decoration, interpretation, reconstruction and response in visual form. Consequently, drawing in this industry incorporates conventions and interpretations of figures and materials to design, describe and promote fashion products. Core skills and knowledge of drawing provide an important foundation for existing and evolving modes for designing and presenting fashion. In addition to traditional drawing skills, industry professionals increasingly draw upon a range of software packages to assist in the representation and communication of their designs. This unit provides an introduction to both drawing from life, and to the use of appropriate software packages putting fashion illustration in contemporary terms of media usage.

Aims

This unit will introduce you to the traditions and conventions of figurative drawing as narrative in the context of fashion industry practice. You will be expected to develop individual concepts and applications through your drawing and be introduced to a range of media and appropriate software packages utilised in the fashion industry.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Identify and apply a range of media (digital and hand) to present fashion design concepts
2. Analyse visual and contextual aspects of a contemporary fashion illustrator
3. Develop design ideas and the presentation/layout of fashion graphics

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
Through the practice of drawing and the informed observation of selected works, you will be expected to develop skills and confidence of your own drawings within the genre of contemporary figurative drawing for fashion. The application of a range of media and technical processes will assist you to realise expanded perceptions and ideas.

Topics:
- Significant fashion illustrators of 20th and 21st Century
- Fashion Illustration in contemporary practice
- Technical drawing - understanding the design details
- Fabric rendering strategies and techniques
- Life drawing - using the figure to understand 3D requirements of drawing
- Drawing the human figure - proportion, structure, line and underlying systems and conventions of figurative drawing
- Form, space and spatial relationships in terms of layout and composition of presentations
- Introduction to a range of drawing media including Adobe Illustrator
- Fashion illustration as a means to promote and communicate design ideas and concepts.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

You will engage in a variety of learning contexts such as:
- Studio practice (drawing), linked with group and individual discussion
- Demonstrations of media and technical applications and relevant software packages
- Workshops to integrate contemporary practices and industry applications
- Tutorials focusing on contemporary drawing practice

Assessment

LATE ASSESSMENT ITEMS
An assessment item submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time and you do not have an approved extension, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during workshops and discussions throughout the semester.

Assessment name: Presentation (Oral or Group)
Description: (Summative & Formative) Presentation - You are required to present an overview of a significant 20th or 21st Century illustrator.
Relates to objectives: 2
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Early Semester

Assessment name: Portfolio Part A
Description: You will select four illustrations from your portfolio that best represent your work.
Relates to objectives: 1, 3
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid semester

Assessment name: Portfolio Part B
Description: You will develop a portfolio of fashion illustrations.
Relates to objectives: 1 & 3
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

There are no specified texts or references for this unit; however you will be referred to reading lists, web sites, films, videos and electronic images in relation to your individual studio practice directions. Images will also be presented as part of the lectures.

Recommended texts include:

Hagen, K. 2011 Fashion Illustration for designers, Upper Saddle River, New York, Prentice Hall
Stipleman, S. 2011 Illustrating fashion: Concept to creation, New York, Fairchild

Risk assessment statement

You have an obligation to make yourselves familiar and adhere to workplace health & safety policy. Refer to the QUT Health & Safety web site:

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 05-Oct-2012