ABSTRACT

Abstract

It is general knowledge that the discipline of design normally requires students who opt for it to have had a background in art where drawing is a must. Strange indeed is the fact that the sizeable numbers of students who join the Department of Creative Design have never been exposed to any drawing activity. To avoid lamenting, a method has to be put in place to make learners improve their drawing skills in preparation for the design profession. This paper is aimed at exploring the drawing method that could make a beginner to learn freehand drawing. It is also a platform to report outcomes of using simple methods intended at achieving expected learning outcomes from students mostly with no art back ground. The sample was the 71 first year students of 2018/2019 who were actively involved in the drawing methods aimed to test their learning and how drawing can be simplified for them using common shapes. The study gave evidence that through the use of guiding measures freehand drawing can be learned, even by those who had never done art before and that such measures could be a means to improving the drawing skills of those who were exposed previously.

Keywords: Design; Geometric Shapes; Simplicity; Mistakes; Shyness.