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Design Brief
Design Brief
Torches
Torches
In the winter months the nights draw in quickly each day. As you don’t always arrive home or back to the boarding house in the daylight, there is often a need for a small aid to help you put your key in the front door lock, punch in a key code or just get around in the dark.
You are required to design and make a slim-line torch that will help light up a small area so that you can see in the dark.
Design Restrictions
Design Restrictions
Restrictions are set so that solving the design problem is made easier for you.
You should therefore consider the restrictions set out below:
The material that is recommended is Acrylic, however you can use any laser cut material
The finish of your torch must be of the highest quality
You must use the electronic components provided
You must provide a means of affixing a key / keys
Your torch must have no sharp edges
Your torch should not exceed the dimensions (sizes) given. These are shown in the drawing
The hole shown (dotted line) is for the slim-line coin cell battery.
You will use two layers of 3mm Acrylic, 70mm x 50mm for the top & bottom and one piece of 5mm clear Acrylic, 70mm x 50mm for the middle
The shape in the middle is for the switch.
The holes are for the screws to join the layers together.
Material Research Poster
Material Research Poster
The picture below this paragraph is my material research poster. I made this on procreate and I think I did okay. Anyways, we researched on the internet for information about the materials that we're going to use this year.
I really like this. At first, there wasn't any sketches hiding in the back, but Mrs Douglas suggested that we should add some because they actually kind of look cool. I tried my best- the sketching part was good- but I didn't really know where to place it. But the coin looks amazing. The torch monster- not so good.
Things we need to include:
Things we need to include:
We needed to include: Products that use the same materials as we are going to use (what uses 3V coin cells, etc, etc). We also needed to include labels for each product and it's function. Additionally, we need to add a list of themes and ideas for our own torch designs.
What I like
What I like
I like the sketching of this coin and where I placed it. I also like the design of the page- the curvy lines that seperates the text into sections according to the material or the subject.
What I don't like
What I don't like
I don't really like the monstrous torch design in the middle- but I didn't know where to place it. I did trace it in a hurry so parts of it doesn't look too perfect. I think I should move it upward a bit, because currently it's cheek is being blocked by a photo.
Layers:
Layers:
Layers!
Layers!
I have a lot more than this because I keep adding layers without noticing. Let me show you how much I have!
And I have even more :(
Oh, and the images! Most of them are from google, except for the 3V coin cell battery. I normally use google images because they're higher quality then mine. Um, unfortunately, I'm not that good at photography ToT
Opinions:
Opinions:
Chloe's opinion
Chloe's opinion
Chloe says:
It is a nice an neat poster. But i do think that it could have a more collected theme with the photos and pen lines.
Hannah's opinion
Hannah's opinion
Hannah says:
It a nice poster and i think it could be...
(She didn't know what to say )
Overall, I think I did really good for the first poster of the year. The design and information was all there- and I had a checklist to prove it! Something that would make this poster even better is for me to make the drawing more neat, and place it in a more convinient spot, so it would actually look pretty, because right now, it just looks... slightly messed up.
Monday 26th September
Monday 26th September
Today, we started with our sketching skills. Firstly, we did a warm up, where we had to hold our pencils at the tip, and draw straight lines without rulers.
Grip
Grip
We hold our pencils like this in order to create neat ghost lines, which are slightly more easy to erase. If we hold it near the pencil part, it automatically makes the pencil lines darker.
Warm ups:
Warm ups:
My warm-up!
My warm-up!
This is my warm- up! I'm not really good at drawing straight lines with rulers... anyways, most of my lines aren't so straight, but some of them are straight.
We're also not allowed to layer our lines and get multiple layers creating one of them. We can't do that. We have to just draw straight lines to warm up our hands for sketching activites.
Sketching activity
Sketching activity
Sketching:
Sketching:
After the warm up, we create crates that help us draw designs. It's the box that surrounds the shapes. We also hold the pencil at the edge to get ghost lines.
I think for the sketching I did pretty well! Now, we have to fineline.
Fineline pen thickness
Fineline pen thickness
We're going to be using 0.5 fineline pen! The 0.8 is clearly more thick- the 0.5 is more suitable for finelining small detailed designs.
Monday October 6th
Monday October 6th
Fineline
Fineline
I've finished finlining my work! I think it turned out well. Occasionally, the shape didn't relly meet the edges so I changed that with the fineline pen right there on the spot.
As you can see, I've colored in most of the shapes. But it's not jsut coloring. These two are special techniques that we mostly use in D&T instead of rendering inside the shape.
Color block
Color block
A color block is basiclly when you draw a block of any shape or style around your design. It doesn't have to be block- it can be anything! This one is pretty easy to draw because we just draw a shape around the design and color it in.
Clor surround
Clor surround
Color surrounds are a little more difficult than the color blocks, but if you manage to do it, it looks really pretty. Firstly, in order to do this, you have to color a dark line around your shape, just outside the fineline. Then around the darker line, lightly color around it, and blend them in together.
I personally like color surrounds a lot more than color blocks, because we get to expirement with the shading, and we get to render.
I also haven't really finished yet- I have two more to go. It's okay, I'll finish it later.
It would be even better if....
It would be even better if....
It would be even better if I finished it, and included a lot more color blocks.
What went well...
What went well...
The things that went well were my color surrounds, because they ended up looking really pretty.
Materials
Materials
These are the things I used! We have a pencil, a 0.5 fineline pen, and three color pencils.
Design Ideas
Design Ideas
Design Ideas
Design Ideas
These are my design ideas! I really like what I've drawn so far. Here are the steps that we use to draw these:
Crates
Crates
We use lined "crates" to help us draw our designs. They're really simple to draw- just a box and two center lines!
Circles
Circles
After that, we draw the circles (basically the eyes) and the noes in the middle, and the mouth. That's how I describe them.
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