Week 10 & 11: Class Overview

Week 10

Project 1 re-submission:

1. Assignment 2

- Theme

-Who lives in the house

- Function

- Culture references

- find the references, and can customize it to suits the theme

- don't make it too complex 

- what is the spaces about?

- floorplan

- material & structural design

- scale & composition

- use simple geometry first to set up the space and make sure that human can move in it

- rule of third

- golden spiral

- use these to find the focal point 

- design principle: contrast, balance, composition, repetition, texture, perspective, colour

- Story: visual communication

- check how much space is required for characters to move

- Markers blocks

- must have a moodboard 

Steps of drawing:

- do a floorplan first

- start draw, add a horizon 

- identify the floor, wall, roof

- add in simple geometry as furniture

- identify structure and space

- add in a character to see if the character can fit in or not

- draw a different angle

- reasonable and fun

- simple space

- should choose to exterior or interior to do 3d modelling

- storytelling: what to the charcter do? activities? move from where to where?

- use blender to create a mock up space and then draw on it

- mark the space first

- add in story and detail

- add in shading and light

- find references from real photo, not concept art
- next week, 3 spaces or 1 space but 3 angle or 3 themes

Week 11

Project 2 & interior:

- Ideation (brainstorming, sketch

- Silhouette (readability), the first identity of the drawing, establishment

- Value, focal area, lighting (grey scale)

- Ambient, mood - warm, cool

- Line refinement

- Texture

- Polish present

- Composition

- Sketches should be quick

- use gradient tool to create ambient

- identify what elements is special in your drawing

1. Pick 1 area 

- exp: bedroom, hall, kitchen, bathroom

- the best represent the culture of your actors

- the most utilize space

2. Add in a human as scale

3. Structure

- Wall

- Floor

- Column

Photo bashing (should discover myself)

- Find an image and put it into photoshop

- Overlay it or choose any suitable mask option

- Pick colour from the image

- Use brush to brush over the drawing

Painting sequence:

1. Value

2. Refine the value

3. Add colour

4. Add detail

First idea sketch:

Lecturer's comment:

- Can choose one from the detailed one, keep the horizontal overall one

- Can be more creative, try to add more story in

- The overall one can start value