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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This unit will assist students to develop a level of fluency and confidence with sketching, drawing and visualising commensurate with requirements for developing and communicating visual concepts and ideas in creative production team environments, and for presenting visual components of multimedia designs to prospective clients and/or funding bodies. This unit will help you to develop skills in illustration and visualision using traditional (manual) drawing materials. Learn how to see like an artist by perceiving edges, negative space, perspective, proportion, tone and texture. Develop your drawing ability through the application of these perceptual skills, even if you believe that you have no artistic talent. Explore the legacy of Renaissance art and alternative traditions such as Egyptian, Eastern and modern art. Familiarise yourself with principles of colour theory. Discover how to draw expressive cartoon figures from fundamental shapes and forms. Note: The unit resources are presented online and so access to a computer with an Internet connection is required.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE
Improve clarity of quiz questions.
Review and revise quiz questions.
Feedback from SUTE
Update unit content with more recent knowledge, research.
The unit purposefully has significant art historical content not otherwise available in regions by comparison with metropolitan centers with significant art museums. Even so, the endeavour to renew, revise and update content will continue.
Feedback from SUTE
Improve video resources.
Video resources will be reviewed and updated where necessary.
- perceive edges and draw line contour drawings;
- perceive and draw negative space and chiaroscuro;
- demonstrate knowledge of the legacy of Renaissance art and alternative traditions such as Egyptian, Eastern and modern art;
- understand concepts related to perspective and proportion such as the picture plane, the ground plane, the horizon line, vanishing points, one-point perspective, two-point perspective, three-point perspective and perspective grids; sight angles and proportions,
- draw an informal freehand perspective drawing; draw shapes and forms in one-point and two-point perspective;
- perceive different tones and textures, and recreate them using crosshatching and shading;
- draw objects built from fundamental shapes (rectangles, triangles, ellipses) and fundamental forms (cubes, spheres, cones, cylinders);
- understand principles of harmony and contrast among colours;
- draw expressive cartoon figures and scenery; and,
- be able to synthesise and apply these concepts and manual skills in the production of: thumbnail sketches for the development and communication of visual designs; storyboards for conveying multimedia and movie ideas; and comprehensive concept presentation visuals.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Portfolio - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Portfolio - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||||||