Keyword: «drawing in design activities»

The relevance of the study is due to the need to update the training methods for designers in drawing with the aim of their readiness for project activities. Design learners should not only be able to draw from life, but also be ready to make drawings that express design ideas. To do this, you need to be able to transform images, putting a design intent into the drawings. If no special work is carried out in this direction, then even good drawings cannot be used in the project and the student will not be ready to express the design intent by graphic means. The purpose of the article is to propose a worked out set of tasks, which provides for the development of skills to make drawings and transform them in the direction of designing an object. The following methods were applied: observation of the process of making drawings, analysis of drawings and a pedagogical experiment. The tasks have been worked out, in which, in addition to academic tasks, a complex of special tasks should be solved, taking into account project activities. The essence of the tasks is to transform the image object by association with the shape and content of the object, endowing the object with certain qualities, giving the image of the object a figurative interpretation and various spatial characteristics, as well as using the resulting image in any object of design. It was revealed that the worked out tasks contribute to the development of skills in expressing design ideas by graphic means. Tasks, in which the student must apply his/her drawing in any object of the designer's professional activity, imparts a conscious and purposeful character to the student's actions. The examples of students' drawings made in the course of the pedagogical experiment demonstrating the meaning of the tasks are given. As a result of testing the worked out tasks in the experimental group, we recorded an increase in the number of students who showed a high level of readiness to use a drawing in the professional activity of a designer. The experience of working with students has shown that the fulfillment of tasks for transforming the image of an object expands the range of created artistic images and their use in design. The worked out set of tasks is approved for use in the process of teaching drawing to designers. It is intended for teachers of drawing and those educational institutions that carry out artistic and functional training of students.