CHAPTER 1: THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
“An artist can make a cart with square wheels, but an architect can’t” – Louis Kahn, American Architect.
An architectural drawing is a technical drawing of a structure or building. These are used by architects to develop a design, to communicate their ideas and concepts, to convince clients, to enable a building contractor to construct it, and to make a record of a building that already exists.
Drawing, sketches and animations are just some of non-verbal languages used by architects to show their works. Truly, architects communicate through drawings. Architecture students are going to be doing a lot of drawing in their five years. Sketching and drawing will seems to be the foundation
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Conceptual Framework
The input of the study was based on the opinions and experiences of the respondents. In developing ideas and themes, it serves as the focus of the series of in-depth interviews. The researchers generated themes that are supported and connected to the experiences and views of architecture students.
In the process of interviews, the themes are produced as the output. The study revolves in these themes and the data gathered through interviews were used as the primary foundation in building more concepts as the research is ongoing.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This study aims to explore the advantages of having good drawing skills. The research main question is how important for an architecture student to have skills in drawing?
Specifically, the study aims to explore the following topics:
What are the advantages of having good drawing skills?
How can an architecture student improve drawing skills?
What are the factors in enhancing the quality of drawing?
SIGNIFICANCE
Drawing skills are highly important for student of architecture since it serves as one of the basis for tasks in the course. This study may establish understanding an architecture course through drawing skills. Furthermore, the results in the research could be of beneficial specifically to the
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It may help them to decide whether the students will continue pursuing architecture or not.
College Architecture Students
The study can also help the college architecture students to enhance their drawing skills. Also, this research can encourage architecture students who have low confidence because they think that being not good in drawing is a hindrance in succeeding.
College Architecture Professors
The College Architecture Professors will understand more the capabilities of each student. Professors may conclude that not all the students have the talent or the same level of skills in drawing. This research will increase the awareness of the professors about the differences of the students and how to adjust to help them to enhance their drawing skills.
Future Researchers
The research can also be beneficial to the future researches since the information presented in the study may be used as reference in conducting related researches. This study will also give them a background and overview about the importance of drawing skills for architecture students.
SCOPES &
Drawing takes coordination between your hands, eyes, and brain. Drawing strengthens your fine motor skills. According to Wells, The more you practice drawing, the better your hand, eyes, and brain can harmonize together. Your hands become an instrument to help you record the world around you.
Moreover, they are based on seeing positive and negative shapes and noting shape, proportion, angles, direction and sub-shapes (Dinham, 2015, p. 2). Any object can be used in an observational drawing, likewise anything that is of interest to the artist or the audience. A viewfinder, such as a piece of square cardboard with a postage stamp sized cut out may be used to help isolate sections of the object, thus aiding students’ “…understanding of spatial relationships” (Dinham, 2014, p. 374). An observational drawing demonstrates the process required to carefully view and draw an object. It highlights the importance of paying particular attention to recognise the leaves lines, shape, and edges and the need to take the time to draw meticulously. Observational drawings have a positive impact in the classroom because they allow students to explore the visual world using their senses, such as their sight, to express ideas and make meaning of these processes (Dinham, 2015, p. 1). Therefore, it is recommended that the processes of observational drawing should become a regular arts practice in the classroom and must be incorporated in the curriculum several times a
These three exercises are the most important when studying to draw. There are further common methods and formulas you could and should train. You can improve your drawing skills on your own - just get and draw life sceneries. Start with simple ones and step-up the degree of difficultness as you
To create art takes a lot of planning with the mixing of colors and shapes of different sizes. Children will learn decision-making, and will learn from their mistakes when something does not turn out as they plan. (Mincemoyer.)
The reasoning behind this essay is to prove to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh-Online Division that I, Adriana Petoskey, have the ambition, passion, and autonomy to take on the responsibilities of what comes with obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design.
They were evaluated by their depiction skills and techniques, and competence in using art materials. However, the instruction of the art teacher in my high school was unique. She obtained permission from the school and to modify the curriculum for the students in order to get them motivated. She truly wanted to encourage and excite her students through her art classes. As adolescents felt that, “design” was attractive at that time.
I have been learning about the art since I was young. It was 4 years ago that I started studying the art for my dream, a production designer. Even though I have learned and experienced so many things, I still do not know a lot. In Korea, we learn drawing first when we begin to learn about the art. Such as Rendering, sketches, and animation, drawing is necessary in the art and design. I learned the perspective, how to use charcoal and pencil, and still-life in Drawing 100. However, I am pretty sure that Drawing 101 gave me an opportunity to learn advanced study such as how to do portraits, still-life by pastel, and three-point perspective.
Ever since I was gifted a sketchbook for my sixth birthday, I developed a passion for drawing. Whether that was scribbling out random characters for my amateur comic strips or designing outfits for my pretend fashion show, I enjoyed every second of it. One day as I strolled through the career center at school, a particular dual enrollment course caught my eye. The class was encompassed around technical drawing and applying it to architecture and engineering graphics. Knowing I have been drawing since I was young and held an interest in architecture, I wanted to challenge myself by taking this class.
Some of those students were drawing before to write into their journals. They also organized their thoughts by using mapping ideas. These students are good with both forms of languages, written as well as oral. They enjoy reading, and writing.
To be a successful interior designer, the ability to draw my ideas for clients in the moment is important, this skill requires gesture. Sometimes computer programs such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign demand too much time while meeting with a client. These are helpful tools, but not when trying to gain a new client. I need to be able to decipher information that a client is describing in what they wish their space to look like. I then produce a drawing showing them my interpretation as a trained designer. This quick output would be
Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and
The idea of observation in children is very important, because that what children do they observe. To help think, sort or identity, kids use their eyes as well as the other senses. From their youngest moments children are attracted to shapes. Beaty stated “children need to observe the things they are interested in and to express their feelings in the graphic language of drawing”. The first shape they may be attracted to is oval, circular objects because that what they see first, they see their mother’s round, oval face. Children can draw from what they have seen. If one asks a child to look at a picture, or object, they will draw it how they can saw it. The ides of art are sometimes or if not often, seen as a way as express ones emotions with
4. To discover whether a concept artist’s way and theory of art suited to be made as guidelines for art students in producing artwork
Architecture is vital function for all parts of society. Without architects people would have to rethink how they enter buildings, fearing roofs caving in or structural beams giving out. The rigor of an architect’s training leaves these possibilities and worries an unlikely prospect, not considered in the day to day in a person’s events. Architects make both functional and beautiful structures that are appealing to the eye, as well as useful to the world. The world wouldn’t be able to live in functional cities without the qualities of the architect’s skills. The world would have to worry about a door frame falling on their heads as they walk through the door for their daily workday, into the building that houses their jobs, their pay based on the efficiencies of the buildings layouts. Hopefully a person office is the one in the corner with the view, built to capture the sights outside the window and the prestige of the position, all thought of and created by an architect. Architects have an extremely specialized task to perform. They have to make sure that a building is stable in all conditions and useful and also that it looks appealing to senses, capturing the light at dawn, changing with the light at dusk. Architects do great things and create even greater things, often unnoticed, but worthy of mention. Architects also have very fun creative jobs where they can go to a rigorous job and make sure everything is going as planned and the building will meet the needs
Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what