05-Basics of Sketching
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Drawing Kit Tutorial
Children’s Museum Visit
Ideas Milestone
research + bring top 3 new ideas to lab
separate sheets, in your notebook, and as refined sketches
using the drawing tools and
graded on idea quality techniques from class today
and sketching effort
Reminder:
One of your team’s ideas will be the
starting point for the final toy!
Sketching
why bother?
Sketching
Communication, not art!
Sketching
The language of idea generation
Ping-Pong Ball Blaster
A toy blaster that fires plastic ping-pong balls, stores several at once
inside its shell, and automatically resets with each pull of the trigger.
New balls are loaded via the port on the top, several can be loaded at
a time. Pulling the trigger once fires a ball out of the front and after…
Why sketch clearly?
clarity creativity
10
7.5
2.5
kudrowitz, wallace 2010
What’s the process?
Mental Models
Basic Skills (simple shapes)
Basic Rules
Practice
Quiz!
1. Sketch a picture of the
side view of a car. any car.
*use protective paper
2. Put your name on the
back of the sketch
Mental Models
Car Sketching
with strong mental model
with strong
with a weak
and drawing ability mental model mental model
high detail low detail
Models and Ideas Sketches
Architecture Proportion Detail
What’s the process?
Mental Models
Basic Skills (simple shapes)
Basic Rules
Practice
The Basic Skills
lines, circles, ellipse
Uncertainty is Visible
What’s the process?
Mental Models
Basic Skills (simple shapes)
Basic Rules
Practice
Rules: 3D with perspective!
1 Point 2 Point 3 Point
This Class
The Horizon or Eye Line
Horizon
refrigerator
Vertical Lines are always vertical
Proportions
The Cube
Close Vanishing Points = High Distortion
Close Up Objects
Where are the Vanishing Points?
Almost
Parallel
The Cylinder
Horizon
The Cylinder
ellipse minor axis
inline with cylinder
center axis
Horizon
Cylinder on Cube
Cube on a Cube
Products of Basic Shapes
Start with physical models
Putting it Together
Logistics
Practice your basics
Try using perspective sketching for idea generation
Bring drawings supplies to class again on Wednesday
Select at team finance person [email protected]
Questions?!
