Tuesday 21st of Sept. 10' & Thursday 23rd of September 2010 : III. Design as Communication: Representing Things & Ideas (part 1&2)

For Tuesday we had to pick 5 different hand tools and draw them in 3 different dimensions each. Then in class that day we had to pick one ( I chose my cherry key chain) and start drawing it a lot, to get "the hang of it", and eventually we started using specific methods to do so ; we drew using a gestural method, then using a painterly and calligraphical method, and in total we had to have finished drawing at least 20 using each method of our object for next class.That day most of the class also took professional pictures of their object, in my case, I used a black background, to contrast with the silver edge of my object but also to contrast with the red and green of the cherry part).

Here are all of my 5 different hand tools, in 3 different views:
#1: my eraser

#2: my stapler

 #3: my cup

 #4: my DVD remote control

My final object: the one I chose to use for all my drawings: my cherry key chain

On Thursday we had to gather up all of our drawings that we did during the drawings that we finished but had started on Tuesday ( in the 3 different methods : (gestural, painterly and calligraphic) and hung them on the wall. Then we continued to draw using the same methods but more using new ones, such as the graphical method, where we had to draw our object using only straight lines, right angles but also the other method where we had to draw it using only the following geometrical shapes: circles, triangles or square. Not much of the students had brought photocopies of texture for the collage of their object so we left that part, and moved on to the next method, which consisted in using alternate marking tool, nothing traditional no pencil/pen, brush, marker). After we finished making several drawings of that type, we moved on to the next method which had to be a drawing that conveyed a specific meaning (using only one line. That was the 8th method and I think we stopped at that one in class, but a little while before leaving all the students gathered in front of the walls where all the drawings were hung and the teacher asked one by one which set of drawings/which object he or she liked the most and why. I thought that was interesting to know everyone's opinion, to learn from differences.  

Here are my drawings that I hung on the wall:

Here are some of my drawings:

 Gestural

 Painterly/Calligraphic

 Using only straight lines

 Using non-traditional material; in this case a wooden branch and ear cotton cleaner

my table: the paint and ink and wooden twigs we drew with

The room we took our object's photo-shoot in

We did a critique session at the end of class, to see what's interesting in every object and to know how to improve , what to do, etc.