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.

Term Project 1 - Collaborative Panoramic Drawing

This project is part of your mid-term test. It is like this,

3 to 5 students team up as a group. You go out to take several pictures from one spot. You put the pictures in photoshop to form a panoramic view from that spot. And each of the students in one group drawing from the pictures that you've taken. The pictures could either be interior or exterior. At the end, put your drawings together just like how you would have collaged the photo pictures in photoshop to form a panoramic drawing. You, as a group, will be expected to give a short presentation about your outcomes next Monday. The project is due the first class next week.

Here are some panoramic photo collage examples,

Requirements:

1. The number of pictures should be no more than two times of the number of student in your group, meaning if there are 3 students in your group, the picture number should either be 3 or 6, so that each of the students do one or two drawings from the picture.

2. There's limit place that you are supposed to take pictures about,

Interior - Anywhere inside the architecture building.

Exterior - Architecture building, Bussiness admistration building, English building, and the ourdoor area that these three buildings surrouding.

3. You are supposed to use 14x17" sketch pad to do the drawings. Pencil and color pencil. Ruler is recommended to use.

4. Use a cardboard to collage your drawings to form the final panorama. You can choose whatever color of cardboard that make your drawings look better, though black is more commonly used. At the right low corner of the cardboard, use a 2.5x3" white cardbord/paper to write/print the place that you did the drawings about, and the group members' names.

5. In the presentation, you can talk about the why your group chose to take pictures and draw this spot/object, what were the feelings when you do the drawings, or what you've learned from the team work, what you could imagine the future would be about the place that you drew, etc. It can be creative. Please write what you want to say before presentation, and rehearse a little bit. It would be formal. And I will grade you afterwards. 5 minutes presentation for a group.

6. Always try your very best to make it look good!!!

Perspectives in our life!

Perspective is how we see the world. Once you choose a good perspective angle, you will find the world is more beautiful and amazing than otherwise. Are you good at recording our amazing world through good perspectives using camera or pen?

Week 3 - Weekend homework

Hey, guys!

From today on, please don't sign at the front of your drawings. Please write your NAME AND DATE in print at the left low corner at the back of your drawings. Because your portfolios are supposed to be anonymous.

1. This is a exterior one-point perspective. (Suggested finishing time: 3 hours.)

Requirements:
a. Use the 14x17" sketchpad.
b. Pencil and ruler. Then use color pencils to shade. Please be PATIANT!
c. You don't have to trace with pen or erase any pencil lines.


2. This is an interior two-point perspective. (Suggested finishing time: 1 hour 15 min.)

Requirements:
a. Use the 9x12 sketchpad.
b. Trace with pens. And shade with color pencils.



3. Shading practice. (Suggested finishing time: 2 hours.)

This drawing provides some very good ways of shading with pen. When you are not sure about shading in the future, you can always go back to see how you did shading in this drawing. I want you to follow the exact shading ways in this drawing. I will send the picture to your emails too, in case you couldn't see the shading technique very clearly here in the blog.

Requirements:
a. Use the grid paper.
b. At the end, only pen lines can be seen.

Week 3

Perpective

1. What is perspective?
2. Important terms.
3. Three different types of perspective

Homework:

Finish the following two drawings on your grid sketch book.

Requirements: Use ruler to draw the lines. Pencil drafting and shading, and pen tracing. Please make your drawings clean and clear.

Week 2 - Weekend homework

This time, we will use the 9x17" sketchbook. When you turn in your homework, you don't have to tear the papers down. That means, you just need to turn in your sketchbook. You will need to write your name on the cover of your sketchbook, but sign your name and date each of your drawings at the same time.

1. Building sketch (Suggested time to complete: 1 hour.)
Requirements:
a. 9x12 sketchbook,
b. all pen (you could use pencil to draft)
c. please pay attention to the way of shading.


2. Building sketch (Suggested complete time: 30 min)

Requirements:
a. 9x12 sketchbook
b. pen lines
c. use markers to shade

3. Interior sketch (Suggested complete time 2 hours.)

Requirements:

a. 9x12 sketchbook

b. all pencil lines

c. please notice that there are light and dark differences in pencil lines and shadings. (Use different pencils. For example, 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B, in this sequence, the hardness of lead is getting lower (softer), that means the lines you draw with them are getting darker. That is to say, 2H draws the lightest lines, HB draws darker, and 8B will be the darkest.)

Week 2

Draw from pictures:

1. Light and shade, light and dark;

2. Three basic elements: points, lines and planes.

3. Sense of space and volume.

Examples:

Homework

Requirements:

Just like how we did in class, draw from the picture onto 14x17" sketch paper. Pencil first, then remove pencil draft lines, and trace and shade with pens of different thicknesses. Don't forget to draw it horizontally on the paper and fram lines first.

Important Door Codes

Hey! In case you may forget these combinations,
Architecture building: 351594*
Room 306: 3-12-54 (push 1 & 2 and 5 &4 at the same time. )
Room 501: 931354*

Don't forget to hit the *s.


Good luck, Cathy

Week 1 - Weekend homework

(Don't forget to sign your name and date. And write your name in print letter at the left low corner at the back of paper.)


1. Finish tracing the grid paper if you didn't finish in class.

Requirements: Relax your arm and fingers, trace a line from top to bottom and move steadily and fast.


2. Measure with your pencil and draw your microwaver or school bag or computer (laptop or desktop).

Requirements: Choose one from the assigned iterms. Just like how we did in class, still using the 11x17" grid paper. Firstly, draw with pencil; then trace the ourlines with 0.8 pen. Whether draw it vertically or horizontally, depend on your object's shape, page full. You don't have to shade it. At the end, erase some unnecessary pencil lines and frame lines.



3. Textbook page 134. Draw the building views on to your 11x17" grid paper. All four on one page.

Requirements: You must not put paper on top of the drawings in the book and trace them, you are supposed to draw them yourself. Don't draw them as the same size as in the book, that means since the grid paper is bigger than our book, you need to enlarge the drawings from the book a little bit, to make it look good on our grid paper, maybe 1.1~1.3 times bigger.

First you need to equaly devide the grid paper into four parts, so you can see how big one drawing should take. Then you are to carefully draw out the first view of the building, and then you can just use the same measurements to draw the other three views, since the four of them are of the same size in generall. At the end, you put different details to each one.

Don't use ruler anywhere. Just draw lines with help of the grid. Use pencil first to do drafting, then use markers from our tool kit or pencil to shade, just how it looks like in the book. At the end, trace the lines using 0.5 or 0.8 pen, and erase all the pencil lines.

4.
Requirements: Same as how we did in class and how you did last time, 14x17" sketch paper, drawing board, graphic crayon, frame lines and then remove it.