D&T e-block (IGCSE)

2D Basic Shape Sketching - L1

In this lesson we have learn to use the crating tecnique which teaches us to use ghost line to help guide with shapes that we are aiming for in a 2D dimension. As well as that I have also press my pen harder on the actual shape so it can show which line to be focus and which is to not be focus. What I have also learn is we also have to try and draw fillets in the corner of each shapes. Fillets in this term mean the rounding of the corner of interior or exterior designs.

In this sketch you can see I have drawn various straight ghost line which is all connected is a guid for me to make the final shape by connecting the ghost lines. Which as you can see I have drawn the harder line on the actual shape.

Examples drawings of the 2D shapes

I have been testing out two blue pen which I personally like the top one more because it's easier to hold than the bottom one due to it square shape. From research the top pen is called 'pental' and the bottome one is called 'Caran d'Ache 888 Infinite ballpoint Pen'.

Theses are the cirles I have drawn using two different methods. The circle on top I have use the crating method by drawing a light box and drawing a light diagonal line following it. After that I curve the corners and creating the circle. On the second method, I have only drawn it by lightly moving my arm in a circular motion.

2D Basic Shapes Sketching and rendering - L2

You may also see that the square on the bottom of my sphere sketch have a lighter line to show the differences between the two shape and the shadows.

Why I outline my sphere this way?

For this part, you may see that I have outline the sphere with the same thickness all around. This is because if you look at the right photo you may see that even if there's uneven shadow or light, the edges are all still dark due to it being 3D. Therefore I wanted to show you the same perspective to my sphere, so that's why I have outline the edges really thick.

Here is the overview picture of what I have done in my previous lesson of rendering, but as you can see I haven't done as much and this is because i thought it was a bit difficult when I had to try and balanced the light and the shadow. You may that I have made the shadow too dark in shape 4 which caused it to look imbalance, making it not look as realistic as the other shapes.

I have chosen this picture to be the focus of this part due to the white pen that I have drew on. If you look on the shape head you will see my white pen which I think I drew a pretty realistic line on making it look like an actual light reflection.

For this shape, you will be able to see that the inside line is more darker than the outside line. This is because I wanted to make it look more realistic since the the inside line would be in the inner layer of the shape in reality, causing it to be darker.

The mistake I have made in this shape is the shadowing. What I have noticed is that the shadowing may be too unrealistic and theres some section in the shadow where it's too dark, which can make the shape look less realistic and dull.

Personally I actually like this shape a lot, due to all of the colors being balanced; not too dark shadow nor too light reflections line, as well as that, I think I drew this shape pretty neat.

Mistakes I have made

Steps of rendering

Further notice: In this paper I haven't drawn or fine line anything, all these shape have already been added in the paper due to this being a rendering practice paper.

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First before I actually start rendering, I would chose the color I wanted out of all the copic markers I have. After I will have to outline the shape with the tip of my copic marker, although I didn't push too hard because I didn't want this line to be the main focused.

You may see after I have outline the shape, I will now be adding color on only half of the shape, usually you should fill in the color on the opposite side of where you want the light to shine from. As for this case I have decided that my light would be position on the top left corner of the paper, therefore there would have shadow on the right side of this shapes. So that's the reason why I fill in only the right half of my shape.

Pen I have favourited

The main copic pen I have use in this task are mostly 3W and 5W. I have decides to use these two during my process are because I though warmth would look really good as a light shadow, like a reflection shadow. This can make the shape looks more surreal from the color. Although there's other color that you can choose.

In this step I have add 3W on where there would be reflections or shadow to show the warmth. As well as that I have also added some extra layer of shadow to be the other shadow color.Near the center I have also added another line so it look 3D

Here you will see how adding another layer of the same color on top can be affective to the shapes and shadows.

You may see in the left photo that although there's already shadow added, it doesn't really stand out as much as the second picture on the right. This is because I have added another layer on top so it stand out more and look more sharpen.

This is the final result of all shape, in all of the shapes now I have completed the rendering stage and added a more obvious shadow by using black pencil and shading the right edges of each shapes. As for the reflections I have decided to use white pencil to follow through the shape angles to create another type of reflection.

You may see that all of the shape will have shades in different positions, this is due to some of the object being on eachother. For example, you may see the big red whisk being behind the green whisk causing there to be more shadow since the shape are creating shadow behind one and another. I will explain further more in the picture below.

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