‘Drawing with my Students’ – Development of Clothed Life Drawings among University Fine Art Students. Analysis of Selected Drawings by Second Year Students at Kenyatta University

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dc.contributor.authorKamau, Wango
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-16T09:43:13Z
dc.date.available2021-03-16T09:43:13Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionA research article published in East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.description.abstractStudents of Fine Art are introduced to drawing in their first year and human figure drawing in their second year. It is presumed that they have already had some element of earlier exposure in other levels of prior studies. The objective of human figure drawing or life drawing is to get the students to a level of applied skill where they can be able to draw and utilize their skill in other aspects of self-expression in other disciplines of Art. This is because life drawing is a fundamental requirement in all disciplines of art from basic sketching to detailed paintings. This paper examines selected work of students to determine the extent to which they are able to achieve this objective within the unit prescribed duration of one semester. The paper also seeks to determine whether the work produced meets the standard of drawing required at this level which then enables the students to subsequently embark on other units of drawing moving forward. This is critical since they are required to apply their life drawing skills in other units as a matter of routine individual expression. In this regard, if they are required to draw or paint an imaginative composition, they would be expected to depict human figures which not only fit within the composition and are well executed but also express the students’ ability to interpret themes and formulate subject matter. For the purpose of these exercises and in order to focus solely on the objectives of human figure composition and detailed development, the students were confined to the use of pencil for the layout, shading and detailing of their work. This is because pencil provides a wide range of manoeuvre for this kind of exercise. In this series of drawings, the students used one particular female model which provided them with the opportunity to visually interact with the individual model and be able to study and observe how the life model adjusts to various poses. This was designed to help draw inspiration as well as make the drawing exercises methodical, enjoyable and purposefulen_US
dc.identifier.citationWango, K. (2021). ‘Drawing with my Students’ – Development of Clothed Life Drawings among University Fine Art Students. Analysis of Selected Drawings by Second Year Students at Kenyatta University. East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2(1), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.3.1.291en_US
dc.identifier.issn2707-4285
dc.identifier.otherDOI: https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.3.1.291
dc.identifier.urihttps://journals.eanso.org/index.php/eajass/article/view/291/259
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/21911
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEast African Nature & Science Organisationen_US
dc.subjectLife Drawingen_US
dc.subjectModelen_US
dc.subjectObservationen_US
dc.subjectProportionsen_US
dc.subjectPencil Shadingen_US
dc.subjectAnatomyen_US
dc.title‘Drawing with my Students’ – Development of Clothed Life Drawings among University Fine Art Students. Analysis of Selected Drawings by Second Year Students at Kenyatta Universityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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