Course description
Foundation Drawing For Textile Art, Design and Fashion
This course is designed as an introduction to drawing for textiles and contemporary drawing practice more broadly.
You will be introduced to expressive, gestural methods alongside more traditional, representational approaches, in order to provide you with a broad visual vocabulary of techniques.
The course authors hope to encourage an experimental curiosity and an open-minded playfulness in your approach to drawing, grounded by a solid base of skills and theoretical knowledge.
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Course Outcomes
Through the course, you will:
- Demonstrate a greater understanding of the possibilities of drawing, be able to demonstrate more mastery of drawing media and materials and show an improved ability in looking at and interpreting what you see.
- Gain an understanding of where drawing sits in the wider creative process, and display an awareness of contemporary approaches to drawing.
- Have more confidence in your potential as an artist, designer or maker by showing inventiveness and creativity.
- Be in a better position to decide on the nature and direction of your future studies.
Training Course Content
Part One: Line and Image
Line drawing is highly versatile technique encompassing precise and accurate methods as well as more gestural and playful techniques. You’ll explore ways to draw objects, as well as experimenting with ways to translate non-visual information into lines and marks.
Part Two: Surface and Tactility
Textiles is an inherently tactile subject, so this section explores ways to draw from and with texture. You’ll be introduced to a range of drawing media and techniques, from more formal, traditional approaches to expressive methods, such as creating your own drawing tools.
Part Three: Objects and Spaces
Observational drawing assists the practitioner in rendering accurate depictions on paper, communicate ideas and encourages skilled and purposeful looking. You’ll be introduced to the various methods and guided to create your own observational drawings.
Part Four: Drape and Silhouette
You’ll focus solely on drawing fabrics in this section, capturing the pattern and texture of textiles as they are draped, bundled and worn on the body.
Part Five: Movement and Sound
To highlight the diversity of drawing, this part of the course focuses on capturing the ethereal elements of movement and sound. The resulting work will be abstract, possibly very large and transient in nature.
Supporting material: presentation advice
This part of the course provides advice on presenting your work for interview. This is an optional extra and won’t be sent to your tutor for feedback.
Course delivery details
This course is divided into five parts, each of which addresses a different approach to drawing for textiles. Within each part are between two and five topics that break the subject down into focused projects.The course should take about a year to complete if you spend around eight hours each week on it.
Expenses
- Fees for UK students: £900 per course
- Fees for students outside of the UK: £1,050 per course