Weeks 8&9 - Measured Constructive Drawing and X-Y-Z
Section Drawing
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This week
is a double post week – we had to do both measured constructive drawing and
X-Y-Z section drawings, which are both very technical styles of drawing. I did
these drawings separate to each other – I had a ruler for the X-Y-Z but not for
the measured constructive drawing, as I did them at the same time as my last
post’s orthographic drawings.
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Going
into these weeks, I was worried because it was again highly technical drawings,
and I feel like I probably could improve on these pieces much further with more
time and practice.
Measured constructive drawing – Symmetrical Object:
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Using reference
from life and my own orthographic drawings, I attempted to construct the bottle
as best as I could. The same issue has carried over from last week’s drawings –
I really could have benefitted from a sharper pencil and more confidence, maybe
even using this as my rough sketch then lightly rubbing it out and lining it
afterwards with a very sharp pencil.
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To
measure the bottle, I used the bottle top and neck as a unit to measure the
length and the width of the rest of the bottle. I believe the proportions are
almost correct – the bottle is slightly too wide – and I did not think to try
and use diagonal lines to find the centre of where the bottle neck protrudes,
so the bottle neck is too far back on the bottle.
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If I were
to do this again, I would focus less on trying to get the detail at the front
of the bottle and focus more on line weight and clean line work, as this seems
to be a running theme among my technical works.
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Measured construction drawing – lung tonic bottle |
Measured constructive drawing – Asymmetrical Object:
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Using reference
from life and my own orthographic drawings again from week 7, I had very
similar issues with this bottle to the symmetrical piece. However, the
proportions on this one is more obvious – I used the bottle head as a measurement
and measured that the height of the bottle be split into 3 various sized sections
of the head, neck, and body. However, I did not measure the protrusion distance
and incorrectly proportioned the neck to body ratio, so the neck looks extremely
long.
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To fix
this, I will have to gently rub out the original drawing and go over with a
sharp pencil and define proportion lines with a ruler this time to ensure all
proportions are correct, and the lines look less “fluffy”.
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Measured construction drawing – spray bottle |
X-Y-Z Section Drawing:
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To follow
in the footsteps of many other students, I decided to draw a boot for my XYZ
section drawing. However, I really did not understand how to construct the grid
properly, so while I did start the drawing with a Y plane version, then making the
footprint on the X plane and building up the Z plane, the planes did not mesh
well, and the shoe isn’t in proportion as a result.
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I do
still like the drawing of this shoe – and this week showed me using a ruler and
a very sharp pencil for the first time which shows immediate improvements in
line quality.
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If I were
to do this again, I would rewatch the presentation video and try to carefully
replicate the grids used in the example, so that I could reapply my boot
drawing to that like a grid.
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X-Y-Z drawing of a boot |
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