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This module will enable students to continue to identify, test and develop ideas using drawing as a means of enquiry, recording, observation and expression conveyed through subjective experience.  Students will record, translate and develop ideas through drawing and the application of drawing.

It will provide students with the opportunity to agree a plan of practical work with tutors to assist in helping them develop their individual artistic practice.  The student may wish to explore a theme or concept initiated in a previous module or advance experience of working with particular materials or technologies. It should enable students to focus on an area of personal interest and the experience and outcomes may assist and inform decision-making for future progression and personal development at level 6.

Students will develop and perfect visual processes of research and investigation,

continuing the progressive development of personally informed work based on closely observed reportage followed by experimental subjective responses.

Students will identify a personal direction for their work, developing an understanding and awareness of their individual motivations in developing imagery via this process. 

Exercises and workshops in -

- Analysing, deconstructing and producing sequences of drawings.

- Context, character, composition, character interaction, identification of narrative/communication objectives.

- Viewpoint, mise en scène, moving though spaces, layout, text, lighting, colour, monochrome.

A sustained body of explorative observational drawing will initially be produced, followed by developmental processes which seek to offer innovative and experimental advances to the student’s drawing practice.

Students will extend their current practice by an increased mastery of technique and an informed synthesis of personally informed experimentation and skills.

Students will be expected to engage in:

- open discussion of work in progress regularly throughout the module.

- verbal and written articulation of artistic and personal objectives; including the observation and recording of working practices to provide a resource for

future career planning

Students will produce sketchbooks used for reflective practice:

- drawing, observing, experimentation with media, composition, style, in accordance with exercises and workshops.

- daily entries about their progress, skills, learning, discoveries, successes, failures, reactions and responses.

- information: notes on lectures, seminars, workshops, research, discoveries, people, places, observations.

- creating visual developmental responses: ideas, diagrams, plans, observational, imaginative, narrative.

A student passing this module should be able to-

1.    Develop expertise in, and understanding of, a range of drawing methodologies both relevant to and expanding upon their personal practice

1. Demonstrate a creative and innovative attitude to drawing as a developmental process, initiating experimentation and seeking to push against limits of their current practice
2. Sustain a resourceful, independent and self motivated approach to developing and acquiring independent research skills
3. Critically examine the practical, theoretical, historical and cultural contexts in which drawing can operate
4. Question, explore and evaluate drawing methodologies, media, technologies and communication objectives.
5. Evaluate and reflect upon progress in this module and be able to articulate and define strategies towards identifying and achieving personal, academic and career goals 

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.