CQUniversity Unit Profile.

Assessment item 1 instructions

Students must submit a portfolio of scans or photo images (saved as as .jpg or .png files) of the 16 pencil drawings from the tutorial exercises they completed during the first 7 weeks of the course, specifically:

Week 1 exercises:

1.1 self portrait;

1.2 person drawn from memory;

1.3 your hand.

Week 2 exercise:

2.2 upside-down drawing.

Week 3 exercises:

3.1 pure contour drawing,

3.2 modified contour drawing,

3.3 modified contour drawing 2.

Week 4 exercise:

4.1 negative space drawing of a chair.

Week 5 exercises:

5.1 Experiment with informal, one-point and two-point perspective (submit one example),

5.2 Two-point perspective drawing.

Week 6 exercises:

6.1 Observation of frontal and profile heads and filling in "blanks",

6.2 Copying a successful portrait example,

6.3 Profile portrait of a person.

Week 7 exercises:

7.1 Copying exercise,

7.2 Cross-hatching exercise,

7.3 Drawing a tonally modelled, volumetric self portrait.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)

AI Assessment Scale: Level 1
You must not use AI at any point during this assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

Submission Instructions

Collect sharp and clear and copies of the drawings as you go. In an MS Word document create a cover page with the unit name and number, your name and student number, and the assessment item number entered.

Insert one digital image file per page and label it as per the exercise names above. Save the Word file with your surname and 'Ass 1' as the file name.

Save or export the Word file to pdf format and submit this via Assessment link in the Moodle unit web site. Agree to the originality statement and ensure you submit successfully.

Because the exercises weeks 1–7 are all practice and development exercises, the assessment is mostly marked on a quantitative, not qualitative basis. However, a qualitative mark will be awarded for exercise 7.3 only.

Students receive one mark per drawing submitted, providing that it is obviously a genuine attempt to follow the instruction, for all exercises except 7.3.

For exercise 7.3 only, up to 5 marks will be awarded for demonstrated proficiency in techniques learned throughout the tutorial exercises to achieve the tonally modelled, volumetric self-portrait. As per the text book instructions, the self-portrait may be a "full-face view" or a "three-quarter view".

Total possible for assignment 1: 20 marks.

Assessment item 2 instructions

Students are to create three monochrome (black and white) visualisations, using graphite pencil on paper or a digital stylus using drawing 'brush' settings in a drawing application.
Each will employ a different viewpoint:
Visual # 1: Informal perspective (using one or more vanishing points),
Visual # 2: Parallel view (where parallel lines stay parallel),
Visual # 3: Abstracted space (organised for the purpose highlighting relationships).

The size of the drawing should fill an A4 page. Each drawing has a set topic. Please pay attention to the details of each brief:

Visual # 1: (Informal perspective)
Visualise a real or imaginary scene for an advertisement or social media meme that is to feature a chess game that has been disturbed. The setting is up to you, but the scene must also feature a bitten apple. Be sure to employ perspective (where receding lines converge) and/or foreshortening. There are no people to be seen. The view is to evoke a sense of mystery, foreboding and a dramatic sense of scale. The product or service being advertised has not been specified and so is irrelevant to you.
You are also not told what medium the advert is for. The number of chess pieces left in the game is up to you but it must be at least two: one white and one black.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)
AI Assessment Scale: Level 2
For Visual # 1 only, you may use AI for ideation. This is optional.
If you use Gen AI, your process must be declared using a template provided in the assessment instructions. Your final submission must be your own drawing. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

Visual # 2: (Parallel view)
Sketch the contents of one bag from your weekly groceries spread out on your kitchen table or bench. There must be a bottle of olive oil among the items. Remember that in a parallel view, lines (including ellipses) that are parallel in real life stay parallel.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)
AI Assessment Scale: Level 1
You must not use AI at any point for Visual #2. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

Visual # 3: (Abstracted space)
Visualise an illustration that conveys your impression of the processes involved in seeing - from when light enters your eye and forms an image on your retina, to the conversion of this image into electrical impulses in your optic nerves, to the perception one sees in one's “mind's-eye”.
This may be achieved as a series of images if you wish, but not necessarily. You may decide to use a mixture of viewpoints if you wish. The processes you visualise need not be physically or anatomically correct. The objective is to decide on appropriate viewing space(s) to represent what you think is going on at any particular stage and to unify these views into an overall concept and style of visualisation. You must include as part of the composition, the handwritten words:
“Sight is what you see with your eyes,
vision is what you see with your mind" 
― Robert T. Kiyosaki

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)
AI Assessment Scale: Level 1
You must not use AI at any point for Visual #3. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

Each drawing should be finished to the level of a concept rough using techniques taught in the course tutorials. The aim should be to make each picture self-explanatory. It should be understood without having to use supporting texts or notes (except for the words prescribed in the requirements for Visual #3 and the Gen AI template for Visual #1).

Submission instructions

If you made pencil drawings, scan or digitally photograph them. Save the digital files in .jpg or .png format. In MS word create a cover page with the unit name and number, your name and student number, and the assessment item number entered. Insert one digital image file per page and label it as per the names above.

For Visual #1, use the template provided and declare whether Gen AI was used for ideation. If it was used, briefly state how the AI image influence your submitted drawing. Append the Gen AI template to your assessment submission. 

Save the Word file with your surname and 'Ass 2' as the file name.

Save or export the Word file to pdf format and upload to Moodle. Agree to the originality statement and ensure you submit successfully.

Assessment item 2 criteria

Each drawing will be allocated up to 10 marks according to the following criteria:

• effective use of line and qualities of line (up to 2 marks)
• effective use of positive and negative space (up to 2 marks)
• demonstrated understanding of the specified representational view: e.g. perspective for visual 1; parallel view for visual 2; abstracted logic for visual 3 (up to 2 marks)
• effective use of tonality and texture to achieve shape and form (up to 2 marks)

Plus, the following additional criterion in respect of each of the visuals:

• For visual # 1: the creative originality of the concept and the effectiveness of the style and technique employed in conveying the concept (up to 2 marks)

Note: A marking penalty of -2 marks will apply to the total assessment 2 mark if a complete Gen AI declaration template for Visual #1 is not included as required. The declaration itself is not marked.

• For visual # 2: the impact and balance of the overall composition within the format chosen by the student and the realism (recognisability of the objects for what they are without taking account of labelling) achieved using parallel view (up to 2 marks)
• For visual # 3: the appropriateness of the viewing space(s) chosen to represent the prescribed processes, achievement of communication of a concept; the balance achieved with the overall composition (up to 2 marks).

Total possible for assignment 2: 30 marks.

Assessment item 3 instructions

You are to envisage a cartoon narrative and produce a comprehensive visual using colour pencil, marker visual or similar digital drawing technique, in the form of a storyboard consisting of between 6 and 10 frames. The basic plot is specified in a brief. It involves a character who morphs from ‘flatland’ to ‘3-D land’.

The brief: Twoy company is looking for a character along the lines of Mortein’s formerly successful ‘Louie the Fly’ to form the centre-piece of a multimedia campaign for a new multivitamin called ‘twoyomin’. See the following link about Louie the Fly: https://www.facebook.com/louiethefly/
The character is to be a gender-neutral, capsule-shaped, superhero type with the symbol ‘YY’ on its uniform front. The idea is that this ‘YY’ character can lead a person from a tired, drab and flat world (of vitamin deficiency) into a vibrant, vital and three-dimensional state (of good health).
The task is to conceptually develop the overall idea and in the process progress the characterisation of the ‘YY’ hero. You are to depict the ‘YY’ character introducing itself to an (unspecified) tired and decrepit looking character, in a setting that is also unspecified except that it is two-dimensional and flat. After shaking hands with ‘YY’ the tired character is transformed, as is the whole setting, into a vibrant, sparkling and three-dimensional environment. After the transformation, the facial expression and body language of the tired character must have dramatically changed and the colours employed have changed in a manner supportive of the concept. The ‘YY’ character is to appear obviously proud of having been responsible for the change.

To enable you to produce the detail sufficient for a comprehensive visual it is recommended that each frame approximately fit in A5 size format (1/2 an A4 sheet, or 200 x 140mm).

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)
AI Assessment Scale: Level 2
You may use Gen AI for ideation only. If you use AI, your process must be declared using a template provided in the assessment instructions. Your final submission must be your own artwork. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

Submission

Capture clear digital images of your storyboard visuals as jpeg or png files. Insert these into a Word document.
Use the template provided and declare whether Gen AI was used for ideation. If it was used, briefly state how the AI image influence your submitted drawing. Append the Gen AI template to your assessment submission. Save or export the Word document to .pdf format for submission via Moodle unit site. Agree to the originality statement and be sure that submission is complete.

Assessment item 3 criteria
The assignment will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Overall portrayal of the characters (up to 4 marks)
• Overall portrayal of the mood or atmosphere and effectiveness in contrasting the extremes of the transformation from ‘tired’ to ‘vibrant’ (up to 4 marks)
• Overall portrayal of narrative and action (up to 4 marks)
• Characters' facial expressions (up to 2 marks)
• Characters' poses and gestures (up to 2 marks)
• Composition of the scenes (up to 2 marks)
• Effective use of lines (up to 2 marks)
• Effective use of perspective and proportion and/or abstraction (up to 2 marks)
• Proficient use of tone and texture to render shape and form (up to 2 marks)
• Appropriate and effective use of colour (up to 2 marks)
• Overall presentation (up to 2 marks)
• Original contribution to the development of the concept (up to 2 marks)

Note: A marking penalty of -2 marks will apply to the total assessment 3 mark if a complete Gen AI declaration template is not included as required. The declaration itself is not marked.

Total possible for assignment 3: 30 marks

Assessment item 4 instructions
At approximately three-weekly intervals a new quiz will be opened. There are four real quizzes and 10 questions in each quiz. The questions in each real quiz relate to the unit lectures and required readings in the previous three weeks.

There is also a sample quiz. It has 5 questions. The outcome of this quiz does not count toward assessment.

Each real quiz is worth up to 5 marks, making a total of 20 marks available for assessment item 4.

The quizzes are designed to be undertaken progressively and it is up to each student to decide when they are ready to sit them. Once it is opened each quiz is available to be attempted until the final due date.

Only one attempt is allowed for each real quiz. The time allowed for each real quiz is 2 hours.

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