At the start of day1 of 3DD week we were given various drawing tasks. Unfortunately I left the sheet in class, meaning I do not have photos of the images so I'm going to have to explain it from what I can remember.
The first thing Geoff Henman (3DD pathway lead tutor) told us to do was to draw a squiggle, from that squiggle, we were then told to create a piece of furniture that would hold up two people and a cat. The more complicated the squiggle is, the more trouble you would have with creating the furniture. My squiggle was a little bit more complicated than most, but I somehow managed to fit two wonderful drawings of stickmen and a fluffy little cat somewhere on the furniture, I also had room to add a plasma TV.
We were then given instructions to draw ten dots on an area on the page, and then asked to transform that into an architectural plan of a two bedroomed bungalow house by joining the dots together. While doing this task, I came to realise obvious points you forget to think about, such as a hallway. We use corridors and hallways everyday but when told to count the rooms within a house, we forget to mention these spaces we take for granted. Without a hallway, all rooms within a house would have to be connected to each other, and I am pretty sure we wouldn't be happy if the only way for us to get from the kitchen to our bedroom was to walk through the bathroom.
We then transformed a simple drawing of our favourite piece of clothing into a lamp, in my case, it was a top. I had the light shining through all four holes on the t-shirt outline I drew. So, the head section, two arm sections and the waist opening.
"Draw your favourite fruit". So I did. I drew a blackberry, but little did I know this had to be changed into a rabbit hutch. I'll be honest, I didn't do a good job with this specific task but what I did was, use the blackberry as shelter rather than the hutch itself, then I created an "underground world" for the rabbits. I think the idea was good, but wasn't portrayed as well as I hoped in the given time (which was a few minutes).
We were also given other tasks such as; drawing two horizontal, one vertical and one diagonal line on the sheet and then creating a shopping mall plan from that. Here I learnt that the size of the car park is what determines the size of the mall, in my plan the car park was placed underneath the mall itself, making both the exact same size (from birds eye view).
Because we weren't told beforehand what we were expected to create, we drew our shapes, squiggles, dots etc. freely. And so, through this task I learnt that design and ideas are stronger and less restricted when its source is random and the aim is not planned. You can create anything from anything. A shoe can be a sofa, a bucket can be a lamp, a phone can be a car, milk bottles can be candle holders, etc. When Geoff told us to create some sort of mp3 player, everyone was stuck for ideas, once you're given a specific aim, you find it difficult to break away from designs you already know. We forget that it's okay to have an mp3 player that looks like a shoe, flower or a duck. Sometimes it's better to let ideas find you rather than you finding ideas.
The first thing Geoff Henman (3DD pathway lead tutor) told us to do was to draw a squiggle, from that squiggle, we were then told to create a piece of furniture that would hold up two people and a cat. The more complicated the squiggle is, the more trouble you would have with creating the furniture. My squiggle was a little bit more complicated than most, but I somehow managed to fit two wonderful drawings of stickmen and a fluffy little cat somewhere on the furniture, I also had room to add a plasma TV.
We were then given instructions to draw ten dots on an area on the page, and then asked to transform that into an architectural plan of a two bedroomed bungalow house by joining the dots together. While doing this task, I came to realise obvious points you forget to think about, such as a hallway. We use corridors and hallways everyday but when told to count the rooms within a house, we forget to mention these spaces we take for granted. Without a hallway, all rooms within a house would have to be connected to each other, and I am pretty sure we wouldn't be happy if the only way for us to get from the kitchen to our bedroom was to walk through the bathroom.
We then transformed a simple drawing of our favourite piece of clothing into a lamp, in my case, it was a top. I had the light shining through all four holes on the t-shirt outline I drew. So, the head section, two arm sections and the waist opening.
"Draw your favourite fruit". So I did. I drew a blackberry, but little did I know this had to be changed into a rabbit hutch. I'll be honest, I didn't do a good job with this specific task but what I did was, use the blackberry as shelter rather than the hutch itself, then I created an "underground world" for the rabbits. I think the idea was good, but wasn't portrayed as well as I hoped in the given time (which was a few minutes).
We were also given other tasks such as; drawing two horizontal, one vertical and one diagonal line on the sheet and then creating a shopping mall plan from that. Here I learnt that the size of the car park is what determines the size of the mall, in my plan the car park was placed underneath the mall itself, making both the exact same size (from birds eye view).
Because we weren't told beforehand what we were expected to create, we drew our shapes, squiggles, dots etc. freely. And so, through this task I learnt that design and ideas are stronger and less restricted when its source is random and the aim is not planned. You can create anything from anything. A shoe can be a sofa, a bucket can be a lamp, a phone can be a car, milk bottles can be candle holders, etc. When Geoff told us to create some sort of mp3 player, everyone was stuck for ideas, once you're given a specific aim, you find it difficult to break away from designs you already know. We forget that it's okay to have an mp3 player that looks like a shoe, flower or a duck. Sometimes it's better to let ideas find you rather than you finding ideas.
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