Sharnia King Design: March 2013

Contrast and Transition

I have been working on an iteration that incorporates the design principles transition and contrast.

I have constructed different types of models that were inspired by aspects of my line drawings.

While creating these individuals models, I was in a way just drafting ideas and techniques at bending the wire. Through this process I began to develop models that were becoming more and more thought out and linked to design principles.

I am going to continue creating wire models and use the iteration process to develop my ideas, working towards a final model.

Today, we begun to construct wire models using our key words to the project. My chosen principles of design that I am trying to portray through my models are contrast and transition. I had done many line drawings trying to come up with some beginning ideas. However, with the change in medium I found it quite had to take my line drawings and make a 3D form from them. But as I discovered, a whole new dimension to the shape of the form was allowed meaning there were more possibilities of directions for force the wire.

Here is an image of my first attempt at using wire. The very first models were flat and two dimensional. But as i progressed the models started to become more three dimensional and becoming more dynamic as opposed to the previous static models.

Our goal with this task is to create an orthographic view of an object from our bag. This orthographic view was to include a plan, front elevation and side elevation, as well as adding two sections and a detail. This is to analyse the different views of the object and how the views combined recreate the object in our minds, especially if the object is unknown.

I have begun to draw my orthographic drawing, however I am finding it quite difficult as this is the first time I have attempted to draw in this way. As the use of construction lines was being explained I found it difficult to remember where everything went. However with help, I found construction lines a very handy tool to help draw the object in proportion from the different views.

This is what I accomplished during class.

For hatch we had to begin drawing squares of patterns and textures surrounding us. We used our view window to abstract details from larger objects. I found this technique really helpful as it meant I was able to focus on one small part without seeing the remainder of the object.

We had 2 create 24 equal squares and then arrange them in a gradient. At this point I have created the 24 squares but have not yet arranged them in a gradient. This is my progress of the hatching so far. Some are dark, some are light, some are in between which is what I was trying to achieve.

Where to now?
I am about to scan my hatching and cut them out. This a good way to arrange the gradient effect as I can visually see the changes of colour in each square in relation to the others.

We began by receiving two random images that were given to us by our tutor. We had to analyse the composition of the images and choose one to recreate in our own work with five objects from our bag.

The five objects I chose from my bag were my glasses, my watch, my house key, my headphones and my pen. I felt these objects had a large variety of sizes, straight and curved lines and also textures to them.

I created my identity drawing with my objects in place as a draft to IDENTITY.

I have created a series of line drawings that are replicated from my final card model or have taken one aspect of my model and focused on recreating this aspect.

This was the first drawings of my final model. Here I have begun to draw the general form of my model from different angles. By doing this you are able to imagine the model as a whole.