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Object drawing
If your Major Textiles Project is based on one of the following focus areas: furnishings, non-apparel or textile art, you will need to illustrate your visual design development with good quality rendered object drawings. This tutorial provides links to relevant web sites, references and an activity for you to complete which will help with the basics of object drawing.
Outcomes
This material addresses aspects of the following syllabus
outcomes:
H2.1 The student communicates design concepts and manufacturing specifications to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Source: Board of Studies NSW, Stage 6 Textiles and Design Syllabus, Preliminary and HSC Courses (2007)
References and links
The following web sites present different object drawing styles:
Activity
Take a look at five illustrators and write a sentence describing each illustrator's style. Be sure to identify the rendering techniques they have used.
Some books on object drawing are:
Baird, T. (1988) Communicating design, Heinemann Educational Books, Oxford, UK.
Fair, D. and Kenny, M. (1987) Design Graphics: Drawing and presenting your design ideas, Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Tufnell, R. (1986) Introducing design and communication, Hutchinson Education, London.
Exercise 1: Drawing practice
Sketch six different designs from a magazine that relates to your focus area. Select designs that are presented in different ways.
Exercise 2: Thumbnails
Take a pencil and some paper and draw thumbnail sketches of objects similar to those you are interested in designing. Spend only 30 seconds on each one.
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Take a look at the thumbnails of three different lounges. These were done in about five minutes.
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Select one of your 30 second thumbnails and develop it further. Spend about five minutes.
Exercise 3: Rendering
Using sample thumbnail 1 print out five copies or use one of your own drawings to complete five of the following renderings:
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Pencil
HB pencil
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Chinagraph pencil on black card
chinagraph pencil on black card
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Ink and markers
ink and markers
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Water colour
water colour
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Acrylic paint
acrylic paint
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Mixed media
pastel, pencil and black marker
Note the use of a black marker to frame the image.
- Computer generated
http://www.jason-brooks.com/
http://www.mariacardelli.com/
Manufacturing specifications
In the manufacturing specification section of your supporting document you are required to include production drawings. These must at least include front and back views, pattern shapes and pattern markings. The views presented should show the most significant features of the object.
While the lamp drawing below shows the whole lamp, only the lamp shade would be presented for marking. Note the use of lettraset for the numbers.
The orthogonal drawing below shows the dimensions of the lounge chair clearly.
Workshop
Contact the Whitehouse Institute of Design for
possible tuition options.
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