Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence

Produce freehand sketches that communicate design ideas.

 

The candidate’s design ideas will explore and communicate the use, purpose (function) or visual appeal of their design, including the use of:

2D views

3D form using isometrics, perspective, oblique or planometric drawing methods

sketching techniques, such as: quick rendering, crating, and the use of line hierarchy.

 

Produce freehand sketches that clearly communicate design ideas.

 

The candidates designs will be that of the criteria for Achievement and will also show:

proportion

detail, eg, construction, structure, use and operation (function)

shape, form, and finish (aesthetics).

Produce freehand sketches that effectively communicate design ideas.

 

The candidate’s designs will show in-depth visual information that:

conveys the intent (meaning/purpose) of the design ideas

is in the form of related sketches, eg, exploded views, sectional, sequential, detail, assembly, etc.

 

Find your own style - don't compare your drawing to anyone else's , you are you, no one else!

Don't be afraid to be messy You want your drawings to show that

you like the design (even if you don't!) HAVE FUN WITH THE DRAWINGS AND

TRY NEW THINGS Your drawings don’t have to be perfect!

Eric Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower Sketch Loose style - the sketch contains energy

and expresses the idea Heavy lines help 3D look of drawing, can

give the idea of shadow

Frank Ghery's sketch for Walt Disney Concert hall and the reality.

Very loose and energetic

Series of sketches show thought process

Style of sketch suits the end look of the building

Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoie What pictorial view has been used? More realistic looking drawing than earlier slides Shadow enhances 3D look

Leonardo Da Vinci flying machine sketches

Most of the information is conveyed in the drawing with a few notes

Pen drawings and uses hatching for shadow

Colour helps to define shape and show materials being suggested

These are all detail drawings to show how this design goes together - can you figure it out?

Don't rub any lines out –- all lines are useful

You want your designs to show what you think of them –- you are supposed to be selling your ideas!

Use details of small area i.e. buttons to help explain your idea

Remember that you want the viewer to understand the scale of the item, how it is used etc

Include hands or other relevant items to help show this

Crating to help work out proportion

Close ups of details

Splashes of colour

Using coloured pencils to sketch your designs gives them a more construction like feel.

Overlap images and elongate them or stretch them to show feeling of object

Sequential drawings show how your design works.

Don’t be afraid to try out new ideas Overlap the sketches - they don’t have

to be perfect, the aim is to show your ideas. When we are thinking we don’t think in a straight line.

Add colour by using markers or pencil or by drawing on pieces of coloured paper.

Add texture through shading or textures on coloured papers.

Look through the book called SKETCHING and find a style you like and copy it.

Remember that it is said that:A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS What do your pictures say? Are they easy to understand? Ask a friend to look at your sketches

and tell you what (if anything) is missing from it

Enjoy the process as much as possible!