The Educational Effectiveness of Support Functions for Improving Number of Drawing Strokes in Drawing Learning Support System

Abstract

Drawing is one of fundamental skills for art professional education. To acquire this skill in traditional art class is very hard work for students. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop an educational system for acquiring drawing skills and to evaluate the effectiveness of the methodology. We have developed a drawing learning support system for beginners in drawing in a networked environment. Learners can receive advice and assessments from art experts and our system without time and/or place constraints. In this paper, firstly we briefly describe our drawing learning support system. Then we discuss the relationship between drawing work and strokes in drawing process. Based on this discussion, we show some support functions to foster improvement of number of drawing strokes of novice learners. Finally, we try to clarify the effectiveness of these functions.