New Medium

orthographic projection

Presentation drawing

A presentation drawing had to be done for the orthographic projections of the Artist studio. We were suppose to include the floor plan and an Interior Elevation of the studio. The Drawings were traced into marker paper from our previous drawings and inked by free hand. We were taught a new method of drawing, I don't know the exact name of the method but I call it the "shaky hand method" :p by using this method it is very easy to control the lines and draw them straight.
after drawing we had to render the drawing with marker. I have never used marker and this was my first attempt.

Presentation drawing

Although marker pad is used for rendering with marker so that the markers don't bleed, it bled a lot for me. I had to redo it again and learned to control the marker. Although in this also there are few places that the marker has bled out of the lines. I received 7/10 for this work and the comments I received were: "Good techniques of sketches", "label the area in the plan" and "Improve the colour scheme"

A whole new challenge

Two point perspectives

Estimating Line method

This was a new method of drawing perspectives that we learned in this semester.
two point perspectives means that in this drawing there would be two vanishing points.

before drawing a two point perspective, we are need to draw a grid. To draw this grid first we have to draw a two parallel line for eye level and ground level.
Then we need to set two points on the eye level for vanishing points, and two other points named Station Vanishing Point a.k.a SVP.
A lot of lines had to be drawn from these points to form a grid and to minimise confusion we were told to use different coloured pens for different points.
After forming the grid we had to choose any view we wanted to draw form the floor plan and draw it on the grid. I chose the kitchen.

Draft of two point perspective

To draw the final drawing of the two point perspective, we had to resize the image to fit into A3 paper and to be traced back into tracing paper by ink.

Two point perspective

I got 6/10 due to lack of details in my furniture. I was advised to refer books for examples of detailing and also to improve my line quality.

Photograph method

the next method of drawing two point perspective was the photograph method. we were asked to find 5 pictures of two point perspective and our lecturer Ms. Norji selected  the 2 best pictures for each of us. 

In this method, we had to find out where the vanishing points were of each picture and then draw the perspective view.

two point perspective

 I received a B+ for my first drawing and a B for the next and I was told to improve my line quality in both of my drawings.

two point perspective

Exploding with pressure

Paraline Projections

Exploded drawing

After the sections and the interior elevation, we were given to draw an exploded drawing of the artist studio. Exploded drawings are never easy. You end up drawing so many lines and end up not knowing which line is which. To draw the construction line I had to erase so many times and redraw.
for this exploded drawing we were told to explode the drawing by dividing into 4 parts.
The most challenging part for me while drawing the exploded drawing was the staircase, Luckily i ended up drawing a nice and accurate staircase. (which took me 3 tries) Yaay mee!!

Draft of Exploded Drawing

the picture of the draft is not very clear as it has been drawn with a 3H pencil.

Exploded Drawing.

The final is drawn on a tracing paper with ink and is traced from the draft. I received 7/10 marks. The reason I lost 3 marks was, I didn't draw some dotted lines that had to be drawn. The dotted line shows where the exploded drawing has been divided from. I have also missed the drawings of the railing in the mezzanine floor.
This work ends all the orthographic projections for this semester.

More Drafting!!

Orthographic Projections

Sections

The next assignment given for us was to draw a section for the given floor plan. Section was also to be drawn in 1:50 scale. We needed to draw 2 sections from any where we wanted. From my previous drawings you can see the where I made the section cuts. one horizontal and one vertical.

before drawing the section I had no idea what a mezzanine floor was. I just thought it was a fancy name given to second floor. and here is my first attempt of drawing the section.

I did not realise I was doing wrong until miss Norji explained it to me. So I took another tracing paper place it on this and traced the ground floor, the parts I have done right and added the mezzanine floor. Below very faded you see the guidelines I drew for my second section and later traced back to a tracing paper and inked it.

This was my drawing of two sections Section A-A and Section B-B. I 

received 6/10 for this. the things I have done wrong in this was forgetting to put minor technical details in the drawing. Like the circles in the labelling of grid lines and also the dimensions on top. I have also missed to draw some details on the floor. 

Elevation.

After section came the drawing of the elevation. we were told to draw an interior elevation of the floor plan. this drawing was done on cartridge paper and pencil.

I got 6/10 for this work. I missed to draw some details and the dimensions of the drawings are not of the standard font size. I was also told to tidy up my drawing.

The first week of semester 2

Orthographic Drawings

Floor Plans

The semester began with learning to draw Orthographic drawings.

The first assignment was to draw a Floor Plan of a given artist studio.

It had to be drawn in scale of 1:50 with drafting equipments.

Ground Floor Plan

The artist studio consists of a living area, kitchen, studio, utility, bathroom and a sleeping area on the mezzanine floor.

I was absent for the briefing of this assignment as I was down with the flu during the first week of college.
 This affected a lot while I tried to keep up with the coursework at home, as I was unable to clear the doubts that I had with the lecturer and this led to some mistakes in my drawing. Like, not knowing to draw the dotted lines on the staircase.

I got 6/10 for this assignment. Things I needed to improve according to my lecturer was to have different thickness of lines and also to improve quality of lines. 

  

Mezzanine Floor plan

This is the drawing of the mezzanine floor of the artist studio. For this drawing I received 7/10 and was told to improve on my line quality.

The hardest part of this assignment was to complete the writings on the right column of the paper. It is much harder than it looks.

Reflected Ceiling Plan (R.C.P)

This work was also given on the first week, and had to be done at home and be submitted on the next class. This assignment was actually easier than the rest as the plan had to be traced form the previous floor plan, saving a lot of time by not having to measure an draw the guide lines. The ceiling plan is traced from the ground floor plan and the other ceiling details are added.

As I was absent for the brief of this assignment I really didn't know what was happening in the plan.
I have drawn a lot of floor plans before in my previous semester, but this was my first ceiling plan and I had no idea what I was doing.

It is quite embarrassing to admit that I got only 5/10 for this assignment. I have never gotten such low marks before.

The main reason for the low marks of this assignment was because of my line quality. I really have to improve my line quality. The plan needed to have dimensions and I missed that, as I just copied what was in the brief given, and I just copied as it was. That is also the reason why the name of the drawing is also wrong. However I should have known if we are drawing a plan we need to give the dimensions, hope to never make that same mistake again.