Take home Final Projects

Start from Nov. 10th / 11th.

Due on Nov 29th/ 30th.

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Week 11 - Visual Journal

Class One
VISUAL JOURNALING

"Visual journaling is a creative way to express
and record life's experiences, feelings, emotional
reactions, or our inner world - visually and verbally.
Essentially, visual journaling can become a potential
key to the artmaking process.

Exploring our own thought process through visual
journaling is essential in a world that is in a state of
continuous change. Just as there are many ways to
express oneself artistically, there are many ways to
create visual journals. By committing to the visual
journaling process, one can learn how to access his/her
inner language of imagery and express it both visually
and verbally, while exploring the connection between
image and word. Through visual journaling one can
also become capable of articulating connections
between their own personal art-making experiences
and the works of master and contemporary artists."

Here are some examples.

Now, you status is a "Young Architecture Student". What are the characteristics as being so?

Keep five visual journals. It is due the next Monday.

Requirements:

1. It should be developed mainly based on drawing (with color) and writing. You could also do magzine clipping, etc. Be creative.

2. Reflect your current understandings about architecture, but not just about architecture. You need to really develop your inner thoughts and record subtle things.

3. Use 9x12 sketch pad.

Week 10 - Theories of Colors

Do not let you drawing look CHEAP! (What does it mean? - Right! The Details!)

Homework 1:
Draw one small object, using six color harmony schemes.
a. Completementary color harmony,
b. Analogous color harmony,
c. Warm color harmony,
d. Cool color harmony,
e. Split complementary or Triadic color harmony,
f. Rectangle color harmony.


Homework 2:
Draw to copy this sketch. 14x17 paper.

Week 10 - Theories of Colors

Class 1 - Basic Theories
You could review the theories that we learned today in class here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QGexKdFUI&feature=related
Create color wheel in Photoshop.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.ross/ColourWheel/index.html

Homework 1:

1. Reshade/refine your masks design from the last weekend homework. And see if you have used some color schemes that we learned today.

Requirements:
a. Shade/color with color pencil very thick and even. Make sure you can not see the white paper anywhere within your mask border box, except the white areas that you leave on purpose.

b. See on textbook page 87 those little circles under the drawings, and please indicate the color scheme that you used in mask design. One scheme for one mask, and if you used more than four colors, just indicate from the dominant three or four colors. DO NOT draw the circles with free-hand, it will not look good. Write the names of the color scheme beside the circles using HB pencil.

Homework 2

Create a color theory graph in Adobe Illustrator like the example below. (You can use computer lab. It's gonna take about 1.5 to 2 hours. So manage you time.)

Requirements:

a. Watch these tutorial videos first to before you get started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840ziKa9MlI&feature=watch_response

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2ekXHSx5o&feature=related

b. Do not be afraid of exploring a new computer program. If you have any question, try to google it and find out the anwser by yourself. For example, what is "live trace". And notice that the videos were made in Mac, so you should notice the different on PC.

c. Set the new file on 8.5x11 paper size. When you are done, print it out and bring to class.

d. This is the color wheel that you may need to use.

Homework 4:
In the next class, we will do more practice about color scheme and detailed drawing (micro study). Here's an example.

Please see more examples on textbook page 78, 84 and 85. We will use monochromatic, complementary, analogous, cool/warm color, triadic and rectangular color harmonies to draw small scale objects. So get an object ready, fruit, vegetable, daily life stuff, and bring it to class.

Week 9 - Producing complete drawing

Class 2 - Try to use color!

Homework 1 - Mask Design.

Requirements:
a. Design four masks. It's all about your design: layout on the paper, face shape, pattern for masks, colors, etc.
b. Use 3 to 6 kinds of colors in each one (I suggest you to use 4 to 5).
c. Give each mask it's life, i.e. characteristic, emotion, facial expression and even a gender.
d. Each mask should have a background (you decide the size and shape of the background) shaded by a color that has been used in another mask.
e. Use the 14x17" sketchbook and color pencils.

These are some examples. You are supposed to design as detailed as them.

Homework 2 - try your color pencils (standard color pencil vs. watercolor pencils.)

Requirements:

a. devide your paper into two portions vertically - one column for watercolor pencil, and the other column for standard color pencils (wax-based color pencils). You decide how wide are the columns.

b. For each color of watercolor pencil, shade the area in dry first. And then, use the thin brush from our tool box, wet the tip with water, and melt a little bit of the dry area that you just shaded, drag your brush to shade the rest of the area of that color. Then clean the brush. In this step, you'd better have another paper at hand for trial.

c. After you finish all the twelve colors from water color pencil, the the other column with standard color pencils. Pick the closest color to each color from watercolor pencil areas, match and line them up horizontally.

d. Follow textbook page 50 to write texts: major titles - watercolor pencils/ standard color pencils, minor titles - the names of all the colors (the names for the close colors on one line may be different.) Write with 0.2 pen.

e. Use 12x9 inch sketchbook. Control water amount on the brush, don't let it drop! Make sure everything looks clean and nice.

This is a reference example. Please notice now the colors are gradually changing (color relatives are together, right? )

Homework 3 - pencil sketch

Requirements:

1. Pick one drawing to do. If you choose the last one, it's due on the second class of the next week. Other choices are due in the first class, together with the other two homework items.

2. 14x17 sketch paper, pencil, border lines.

Week 8 - Producing complete drawing

Class 2 - Visual Harmony


All homework is due at 10:30 am on the second class of the next week.

Homework 1 - Choose one drawing from below to draw.

Requirements:
a. Use ink, pen, black marker and 14x17 sketchbook. (If you want to, you can bring the picture that you choose to draw to photoshop, set a new file as the same size as your drawing paper, and copy the picture to the new file and "Ctrl+T" to adjust the picture. Once you set up the exact size you want, you can print it out from 9th floor. And trace it.)
b. Side boarder lines are 1 inch far from the paper edges. Same distance from the top and bottom paper edges. That means ther drawing should be exactly at the center of the paper.
c. Keep your drawing very clean.

Homework 2 - Compose your own drawing with visual harmonial principles.

If we call the areas you shade as positive, then the areas that you leave blank are negative. Lines and dots are zero. Please see the example below, figure out how the positive and negative and zero work together.

Requirements:

a. Use five kinds of object, one be from a plant, three be from our drawing tool box or your daily use stuff. But you can add some more stuff to produce particular visual pattern.

b. Use ink pen, black marker and 9x12 sketchbook.

c. Decide the hight and with propotion. Leave 0.5 inches from the sides.

d. Write major title as "VISUAL HARMONY", and list the viual harmony principles that you use following the minor title rule. See book Page 50.

e. You are supposted to do it very creative in this graphic drawing composition practice. See the following examples.

Week 8 - Producing complete drawing

Class 1 - Producing complete drawings (1): Shading patterns.

Homework:
1. Get your grade-circled drawings ready!
Before next Monday, I will give out your mid-term grades. Please check both in blog and your eraider. Since this means half of the semester is almost done, it's time for us to look back what we have learned and show your good drawings to other people. We will have our own exhibition on 3rd floor!!!
Please go over your drawings and see the grades that I gave you. If I circled your grade, usually A+, A or A-, turn them in when next class (Wednesday or Thursday) starts. I will select again and pin up on 3rd floor!

2. Drawing 1- shading pattern: Textbook page 30, the lower half page on the left.
Requirements: boxes are 1.5x1.5 in and 1.5x2.0 in. Equal distances in between and on sides. 9x12 sketchbook. (If you didn't come to class today to get back you sketchbook, you can find it on the classroom bookshelf in Room 501, or couch in Room 306.) Use pen and ink, and remove all pencil lines at the end.

3. Drawing 2 - Textbook page 30, right half page.
Requirements: Do this drawing on 9x12 sketchbook. Use pen and ink and remove all pencil lines at the end.

4. Drawing 3 - shade your shoes from your last weekend's homework. (Please refer to the previouse homework.)
Requirements: Please see page 16 and 17 of the textbook. Now since you have practiced several shading techniques, try to shade the shoes drawing using these techniques. Show the texture (fabric, leather, rubber or plastic), dark or light color as well as light and shade. See if you can see the sense of three dimension from your drawing.
Pencil only. Shade on your previous paper 11x14".

Week 7 - Modified Contour Line

Modified contour lines not only defines the shape but also communicate the light/dark, surface texture, weight and value of the drawing object. To draw with pencils, sharpen the pencils first. When drawing, press your pencil with different hand/wrist strengths, or use different pencils to get different darknesses/line weights.


Weekend homework: This weekend's homework will be evaluated towards your midterm grade to some degree.
1. Draw the food of one of your meals this weekend. I don't mean simple meal but rather it should have no less than two kinds of food. (suggested time: 30 to 40 minutes)

Requirements:
a. Put the food together in the way that you think they look good/cool/interesting. You can be creative in putting them together.
b. Just draw the contour lines. Do not shade. Pencil only. On 14x17" sketchbook.


2. Draw your shoes when they function in your daily life. (suggested time: 1.5 hours.)

What do I mean by "when they function"? These pictures are some examples, standing, relaxing, riding, walking, and what else?

Draw your own shoes when they doing their work, or your roommate's shoes. You can take a picture first, then do the drawing.

Requirements:

a. The drawing should include both shoes. But not just shoes sitting on the floor. They should be doing something. That means it would need to include an activity of your feet. But you don't have to draw your entire legs or other surrounding stuff. Keep it simple, shoes, when they function.

b. Countour lines. Pencil only. Shading optional. On you 14x17 sketchbook. Observe closely.

Week 6 & Fall Break Homework

Homework 1:
Scan your drawings. We are going to learn making portfolio when you come back from fall break.

You can scan all your drawings or you select the ones that you think you did good enough, from our drawing class or what you did for your own hobby, to put in your portfolio. I recommend you to use the scanners in the architecture library on 9th floor or scanners in the main library on the 1st floor. Save them in your flash drive and bring it to class next time when we come back from fall break.
If you scan the last project we did (they are still in the hallway on the 5th floor, you can take them down for scanning), make sure you scan all your group members drawings also. We will bring the whole thing to photoshop, collage the drawings again, and put your individual drawing as focus of the project.


Homework 2:
Choose to do one drawings below.

Requirements: 14x17 inch sketch paper. Border lines. Pencil only. Pay attention to the brighter and darker part of a shadow. Use pencils of HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, etc.

Week 6 - Projected shadows for isometric drawings

Class one homework
Do these shade and shadow drawings on page 21, 22 and 23 in the textbook.

Requirements:
1. Light source: left-up to right-low, 45 degree parallel light. (Think twice before you begin drawing, because some of the projected shadow drawings in the textbook are not from this same light source. You just use these shapes, and draw shade and shadows on your own.)


2. Strictly follow the notes on page 24 (or the handout of the solution page.)


3. Use pens of 0.5 for shapes, 0.05 for shade and shadow. Erase all pencil lines except pencil dash 45 degree lines.


4. Draw on grid paper. Draw everything on one to two papers, if possible.

Let me know if you have further questions.

WEEK 5 - WEEKEND HOMEWOK

For all the isometric drawings you do, do not forget about tracing the outlines with the HEAVIEST LINEWEIGHTS!


Homework 1 - Choose to do one of the two isometric drawings below, a or b.


a. This is kind of like a ball.
Requirements:
1. look at the drawing carefully first - shape and shading.
2. Put the isometric paper under the grid paper. And do the drawing on grid paper.
3. Trace and shade. Black markers are allowed to be used to shade. No pencil line will be seen at the end.

b. This is a bookshelf.

Requirements:

1. Look at the drawing carefully first. Notice that some boxes are closed, some have glass cover.

2. Do it on grid paper. Trace with pens. Don't forget about the dots. Make it look nice and clean.

Homework 2 - Carefully copy the architecture isometric drawing below. (You all need to do this one.)

Requirements:

Do it on the 14x17 sketch paper. Place the isometric paper under the sketch paper. It is hard to see through, right? Then use either the tracing table in the classrooms or use WINDOW (make sure you do this on daytime)! Tape your isometric paper on tracing table or winder surface, then tape your sketch paper on top of the isometric paper. With the guidelines on isometric paper, do this architecture isometric drawing.

You DO NOT need to trace with pen for this drawing. Just pencil lines! First sharpen all the pencils that you are going to use, and keep them sharp untill you finish the drawing. Drafting with the hardnest (2H, H, or HB). Use 4B or 6B to trace the out lines.

Make your drawing clean and clear, no matters if you are a girl or boy. You're going to be an architect, right?

First Month Grade

Week 5

Class one - Orthographic and isometric drawing

Please carefully see the example above. (The line weights are missing from both drawings in both of the drawings in the example. Please think back how we did line weights in class today - first use 0.2 to trace all the lines, and then for orthographic drawing, you use 0.8 to trace the closest part; and for isometric drawing, you use 0.8 to trace the very out outlines. )

Also, you should pay attention to the layout of the drawings. According to engineering drawing standards, in orthographic drawings, the top view is on the top, the front view being on the left low corner while the side view on the right low corner. And put the isometric drawing at the right side of the orthographic drawings, as an 3-dimemtional reference.

Homework

For the isometric drawings today, you are supposed to put the isometric drawing paper under the grid paper as the reference of the 30 degree lines. Do all the drawings on grid paper.

1. Draw the 3 orthographic views of each object below.

Requirements:

a. Find the most appropriate proportion of the measurements, and a proper size to put onto paper. Draw the seven objects on three sheets of paper. Organize them to look nice. You don't have to draw the isometric drawing, but just the top, front and side views. Notice the layout of the views, and write the view name, just like in the example.

b. Ease all the pencil lines. Leave pen tracing lines only.

2. Do the isometric drawings below. Leave pen lines only!

a. Carefully copy the drawings above onto one grig paper. You don't have to shade! But draw out the cube dividing lines.

b. Drawing the isometric views according to the measurements of the two objects above.

c. Copy the isometric drawing above. You don't have to write the measurements.

Week 4

Class one homework,

1. Finish the drawing that we did in the last half of the class.

2. All project group members have the group project pictures ready in JPG/JPEG files, bring them to the next class, and I will teach you how to make panorama in Photoshop. We will do that in the computer lab on 9th floor.

3. Do this drawing - people sketching.

Drawing people as part of your sketch is always not easy. But people or people's activities are very important in our architectural sketchings. Let's see some examples first.

Some of you are avoiding drawing people. So we need some practice. This is for today's homework.

Requirements,

Draw all the people figures on one grid paper. Draft with pencil and trace with pen. And erase all the pencil lines.