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THIS IS ABOUT THE DESIGNING ELEMENT OF THE COURSE.


08/06/2016

BUY - MEASURE - RECORD - ASSEMBLE - DRAW - CAD - ANALYSE

Today we had a great morning going to IKEA. We were given £10 to find something to sit on. The images below show our choices.

We decided to go for the red stool below:

When we got back to university, we had to measure and record every aspect of the different parts of the stool before we put it together. This was in preparation for a technical drawing on solidworks. This was done as a rough sketch which I will turn into a more coherent technical drawing.

09/06/2016

Today was focused on technical drawings and sketching techniques. We began the day by doing a 5 minute, 2 minute, 30 second then 10 second sketch of someone else in the room which I thought was a really good way of loosening everyone up and to get rid of some of the nerves around drawing.

We then moved on to a 15 minute product sketch:

KEY WORDS:

Freehand

Observational

Tonal

Grey

Shaded

In-Situ

I am quite please with how this went considering I haven't done any 'proper' drawing for a couple of weeks. 

Following this, we were asked to do a 15 minute drawing of a product:

KEY WORDS:

Accuracy

Freehand

Instruments

Technical

Thick & Thin Lines

Not Shaded

Crated

I picked a pair of scissors for this drawing as it had a lot of interesting lines and a more complex form.

After this, Jamie introduced to idea of thick and thin lines to bring a technical drawing to life. He had a brilliant way of making us understand this:

GERRY THE SPIDER

Imagine that there is a spider on your product. If the spider wonders around and goes over an edge where you can't see him then the line is thickened. If he goes over the line and you can still see him, the line stays thin.

This is the perfect way to teach this to children in a classroom and something I will remember.

Crating was then introduced as a way of getting children to understand how to draw 3-dimensionally. You draw a box then use it as a guide to draw your product in. This helps you think about proportions and perspectives in a literal way. This is a very handy technique.