Drawing as a Basic Ability of Design Students in Thinking Visual and Understanding of Form Logic

This research is to find out how someone who wants to become a designer but not through the process of selecting drawing skills in design study programs. Someone who is able to draw well, with the logic of form using sketch techniques to realist forms with the logic of perspective for objects whether reflecting intelligence and creativity in dealing with design problems by design students. What is the basic ability of someone who decides to study in the design field? The logic of the form outlined in the picture is important. Whether the inability to draw will be an obstacle in the learning process in the design study program. Product design is one branch of design science that requires students to be able to express their ideas in the form of images and convey them to others. In addition to expressing ideas, students are required to record objects with pictures and sketches directly to understand what they see, both the form and logic of their perspectives and functions. In the design education curriculum, in the first year it is compulsory to take the Basic Drawing and Technical Drawing courses and Nirmana 1 (two-dimensional basic design) and Nirmana 2 (three-dimensional basic design) courses. In the profession of designers, students or young people who want to become designers, in my opinion; knowledge and drawing skills are very important, even must be owned by a designer or prospective designer. Some state universities and art and design institutions in Indonesia, prospective students always go through drawing tests, while most of them go to private universities, not through drawing tests. In this study, I made observations on several high school students who were predicted as prospective design students and for first-year product design students and students in the second year. The subjects observed in students in the product design study program are students who have never been through a drawing test received in a product design study program. Drawing is not a hobby or talent, but drawing is an ability and a way of observing objects and visual language to convey ideas.