Drawing Tutorials

A big part of engineering is planning. Why would you just build something blindly, not knowing if it will work or fail? When building a building, they don't just put the construction workers to work. They start with the architects, who design the building. Then they move to the engineers, who calculate how to make the building work; specifically its structural and material components. Then they propose it to some government counsel that deals with safety. Then they have the construction workers build it. Same goes with anything being built. The point of these drawing tutorials was to gain a better sense of the skills of technical sketching. It is good to pour your ideas out on paper so you can pick the best one. This course made all of us better at sketching and conceptualizing products.

We did this by following a course of videos while taking notes and sketching the ideas stated in the video. The course used principles of progressive overload: starting out easy and systematically getting harder for growth.

All of my notes/sketches are displayed below.

Rapid Ideation Sketching - Creating big ideas in a short amount of time through sketching down all ideas that come in your mind.

Isometric View - Having equal dimensions of each top, front and side in view.

Conversational Sketching - To casually sketch in order to prime rapid ideation.

Orthographic View - Sketching each side individually to capture a better idea of the object as a whole.

Point - A position in space.

Vertices - A corner or end point of a 2D or 3D object.

Line - Connection of two points

Planes - A 2D section of a 3D space.

Surfaces - A drawn part of a plane.

Curves - A line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length.

2-Point Perspective - Drawing an object approaching two vanishing points, usually one on the right and left

Vanishing point - A point where the distance seems infinite.

Horizon Line - The surface you draw a 3D object in relation to the vanishing point

Form - The visible shape or configuration of something.

3-point Perspective - Drawing an object approaching three vanishing points, usually on the right, left, and bottom.

Scaffolding - Drawing lines in perspective to a surface to better understand where you are in space.

Occluded Lines - The outer limits of an object in a drawing

Shadows - A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

Vignette Lines - a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.

Over the course, I felt I was very strong in time management. I'm not particularly good at spacing out and putting time forth to do a task. But during the series of videos assigned, I did pretty good completing all drawings and notes by the deadline. Additionally, I also felt I excelled in drawing. I would say I have great focus and attention to detail. So if I actually take the time to focus on drawing, I'm pretty good at it. I think I have a good grasp of space on a 2D surface.

However, during this course, I did have some setbacks and downfalls. One was with my organization. When I was trying to compile all of my work for this website update, I had trouble finding my work. I threw these papers in various areas of my desk. This also translated into my work. I had weird ratios and positioning of notes to drawings. I will definitely try to fix this in future assignments. Organization maximizes efficiency, I just get lazy sometimes. Another downfall of mine was my problem solving. When I was drawing and had a difficult time, I would just trace the object. I should've calmed down and taken it slower to try and perfect the object. But again, laziness prevailed. In future sketches, I will not be tracing. Even though most of our ideas are original, so I'll almost be forced to draw it myself.