Course Description
This course introduces students to the fundamental principles of academic drawing and painting, including form construction, line, volume, light and shadow, proportion, and perspective. It also integrates the basic principles of color theory with practical application to expand artistic expression.
The primary objective of the course is to ensure students’ mastery of the scientific and technical foundations of visual arts while fostering the development of individual artistic styles, conceptual thinking, and aesthetic perception. Instruction is structured progressively: students begin with simple geometric forms to understand relationships between form, volume, and space, and subsequently advance to more complex objects, focusing on structure, light–shadow relationships, and proportions.
The painting component emphasizes color harmony, tonal transitions, and contrast relationships, which are applied through practical assignments. Core genres—still life, landscape, portrait, figure drawing, and free composition—form the basis of studio practice. Through these exercises, students learn to depict structural form, light and shadow interactions, color tonality, and spatial depth, while balancing academic precision with artistic imagination.
