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.