2D Symmetrical Sketching
2D Symmetrical sketching is vitally important and used at all stages of designing. Professional designers and advanced sketchers use this technique all the time as it makes sketching easier.
Equipment you will need:
To complete the following tasks you will need, as a minimum: some plain paper (ideally A4 white paper); a sharp pencil (ideally a mechanical pencil); a black fine line pen (0.5mm); some coloured pencils including some brown shades.
Step 1
In order to design your Resin poured tea light holder you should start by sketching out a series of rectangles for the Top view, with a centre line running horizontally across and vertically through the middle of the rectangle. The proportion of the rectangle should be approximately 1:6 i.e. 50mm height x 300mm wide. You should then sketch three circles (to represent the tea light candles. You can do two if you would prefer!) - you could potentially use a coin to draw around to get the circles; or a circle template or even a compass, although it is preferred if you try to sketch the circles freehand.
NB You cannot use a ruler!
If you have an iPad and the Procreate app you may use this if you want to.
Step 2
Directly underneath your TOP view rectangle you should 'drop' some feint (light) 'leader lines' and sketch another rectangle that is the same width (length) as the initial one but that is not as high (perhaps 1:8 proportion) - see example. This will be the SIDE view. Again add centre lines both horizontally and vertically, as well as additional guidelines to aid your sketching.
Step 3
Repeat this process three more times on your page so that you have four rectangles of 1:6 proportion each with a 1:8 proportion rectangle underneath - see example (which has 6!).
step 4
Now it is time to start sketching your designs for the 'river' of resin. Do this first and then start thinking about the overall shape from the TOP view. Once you have added your design for the top view you can drop leader lines to the SIDE view to help you line up the design work.
