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CONCEPT: Generate line drawings of your arm & hands
with contour, gesture, structural, and mechanical line, and translate
those 1D lines into 2D planes & 3D volumes with linear materials
(white card). Finally, create a drawing based on the 3D sculpture.
PROCESS:
- Use your 3D sketchbook to make preliminary line drawings of arms
and hands, yours or someone else’s, using different kinds of line e.g.
contour, blind contour, cross-contour, fluid, scribbled, gestural,
geometric, structural, hatched, cross-hatched, etc. Continue to use
your sketchbook to develop sketches that explore linear construction
ideas.
- Choose one or more of your drawings and make a simple copy to study
from. You are now going to interpret the 1-Dimensional lines in this
drawing and translate them into lines made of white card to describe
2-Dimensional planes and 3-Dimensional volume. The linear interpretation
of the arm/ hand should be at least lifesize.
- Cut, fold, tear thin strips of white poster board NO WIDER than ¼”.
These can be varying thickness, even thickness, short or long. They
can be cut by hand, torn, or cut with a knife or paper cutter. Cut,
bend, or shape these lines and use white glue to join them together
to make lines that begin to generate planes & volumes. Imagine
you are creating a 3-D line drawing, or taking a line for a walk in
3-D space. Continue to sketch in 2D with line drawings and translate
those ideas into 3-D.
You can consider 2 possible directions for your design:
- An OBJECTIVE solution: a realistic arm/ hand, finishing
the design as a formal, representational study. Some sources of inspiration
could be computer-generated line drawings of hands, skull & muscle
structure diagrams.
- A SUBJECTIVE solution: adding something personal,
expressive, or abstract to your design, perhaps adding colour.
Make an 18” x 24” drawing based on your finished 3D arm/hand.
MEDIA:
3D Sketchbook
White poster board cut into thin strips (it could also be coloured card)
Knife
Metal ruler
White Glue
MAJOR 3-D ELEMENTS (from your Definitions List)
LINES: REAL & IMPLIED
PLANES: REAL & IMPLIED
VOLUME: IMPLIED
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
REPRESENTATION
ABSTRACTION
CONSIDERATIONS:
- Working with line only (1-D element) to generate 2-D planes and 3-D
volumes.
- The importance of good, clean, accurate construction techniques.
- Inventive use of the materials.
- Objective or Subjective solution to the problem- a realistic study
or an expressive idea
- Presentation: your finished design could sit on a horizontal surface,
hang on the wall, or be suspended on string & move.
- The journey of your idea as it translates from 1D line to 2D sketches
to 3D volumes and back again to a 2D drawing.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
1 finished sculpture plus a minimum of 20 pages of sketches in your sketchbook.
4-6 hours homework per week. Plan your time accordingly. You may use
Algonquin 102 to work on your project outside of class time.
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