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.