Due week 6:

1)Finish box and attached Lid: Auxiliary Vanishing Point: 4 boxes in 2 point perspective (see example and video in e - portfolio).

3) Read in book "Sketching the Basics" pages: 12-15 and 28-43.

4) Start preparing your portfolio to turn in week 7. Look into how to create e-portfolio, due week 15.

Due also next week, week 6: Phase  3:

Phase 3:

Pick your favorite design: 1 DRAWING on 1 page : This drawing should be tighter than the 3 phase 2 drawings from before. Draw the object from another view point. On the side of the page (or on a new page a smaller line drawing) you can show function, add back/front/ortho views.

In general:

Ideation is loose, sketch is a bit tighter, and drawing tighter than that.  (Rendering would be the next level after that.)

- Take your favorite sketch you like, use it as an underlay, and trace it.
- Clean up the lines, do not trace the construction, use consistent line-weights.
- Add more smaller details such as material thickness, logo, feet.
- Optional : add some texture indication to communicate your material.
- Optional : add a light shadow. (we will learn how to accurately plot shadows later).
- Add the Info block.

The "Info Block" basically means having the following on the page : YOUR NAME, project name, object name, page number.
Usually page number and title would be on the top left and name/project on the bottom right but its up to the designer. In sketching it would usually be hand-written (nice and clean lettering in between two construction lines), but if someone scans their drawings they could drop their format in Illustrator / photoshop on top.

The reason I require it is when a designer’s work is on the wall its easy to know who’s work it is, refer to their concepts by number (versus "that one over there”), and gives context as to which project it is so the audience does not evaluate it in the wrong way (especially at design studios).

Examples of shading shapes with marker, imagining where the light source is coming from.

We were drawing these basic shapes looking at Styrofoam objects, observing how shadows appear.

This was a in class demo on composing 3 shapes, layering marker shades 1 - 4, starting casting shadows with the lightest.

We watched this video about the auxiliary Vanishing point re. Box with an attached lid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=pLQ767PLZys&app=desktop

Please prepare a page (min 14 x 17) with your horizon in half (see image and draw 4 boxes in 2 point perspective:

We'll add the lid in class: