Course (level 6) in Arts and Fashion Portfolio Work (Including Life Drawing and Print-making)
Ayrshire College
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Campus location
Ayr, United Kingdom
Languages
English
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Earliest start date
Aug 2024
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Introduction
This course will interest you if you are applying to art school and would like to supplement your portfolio with Life Drawing, Printmaking and Sketchbook Development Skills. You should be comfortable discussing your ideas with other students and lecturers and working with unclothed life models.
The course is about broadening your artistic skills by providing you with an opportunity to develop key life drawing skills, to experiment with printing in a range of media including textiles and to learn how to use a sketchbook to develop your ideas and concepts.
The Printmaking Unit will introduce you to printmaking skills by allowing you to experiment with different methods. You will produce a portfolio of experimental prints, and plan, produce and present finished prints. This unit will be delivered along with a Design for Print unit, where you will develop skills and techniques which will allow you to investigate the commercial print process. You will research, develop, produce and present a design for print to a given brief.
The Life Drawing unit will focus on drawing the human form and take you from the fundamentals of drawing through a variety of linear and tonal exercises to experimenting with media and reacting to shifting poses and movement. You will accumulate a large body of experimental and resolved work, through which you will flex your creative muscle and become confident in drawing the human body.
Sketchbooks are a vital component of the creative process, enabling students to visualise emerging and evolving ideas. In the sketchbook unit, students will have the opportunity to expand on themes and concepts arising in their portfolio and, through practical workshops and demonstrations, they will develop a substantial body of sketchbook work.