Categorie: Drawing

  • Minimal Visual Communication

    Minimal Visual Communication

    This assignment is all about creating a personal vocabulary of simple symbols and representations to swiftly put ideas on paper with.

  • Shading

    Shading

    Assignment: draw a shaded torus, hose disappearing into the distance, helix-shaped tube and a custom Pokémon design.

  • Isometric Drawing

    Isometric Drawing

    Playing around with common and less common 3D shapes in an isometric grid.

  • Organic Shapes

    Organic Shapes

    After touching upon rigid three-dimensional shapes, we move on to the more primitive organic shapes: circles, balls and “beans”. We were asked to practice drawing balls of various volumes: one that would inflate against the inside walls of a cube, one that’s being squashed, one that’s being stretched, and one that’s being squeezed by a […]

  • Spatial Drawing

    Spatial Drawing

    For this lesson’s assignment, we were asked to draw multiple pyramids, tetrahedrons, icosahedrons, a table and a chair, each within the space of a three-dimensional cube. Of these shapes, the icosahedron remains a challenge I have yet to tackle…

  • Symbols Versus Shapes

    Symbols Versus Shapes

    For this lecture’s assignment, we were asked to draw a vase using the negative space between two faces (as per a certain famous optical illusion) and to draw a Picasso. First naturally, then upside down. The idea behind this, as far as I understood, was to get more familiar with seeing and thinking in lines […]