DESIGN ESSENTIALS ANGIE TAYLOR CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER ONE - DRAWING

• Communicating via a visual language
• There are many software applications that allow you to create great imagery without necessarily having strong drawing skills THIS INCLUDES ILLUSTRATOR WHICH I WILL BE USING IN MY PROJECT
• When drawing from real life, you take into account the structure and how "lighting interacts with it"
• Always carry a sketchbook
• Try to treat yourself to quality drawing materials. Better quality paper is made from rag whereas cheaper paper is made from wood pulp
• Propeller pencils: hard case, replaceable leads of different weights, dont need a pencil sharperner
• Lead in pencilas is measured by letters and numbers indictating hardness
• Harder the lead, sharper the lines
• H stands for hardness
• B stands for blackness
• Soft graphite with a high B factor make blacker lines but less defined strokes
• HB is average: equal amount of hardness and blackness
• PAINTS: 1. Watercolour = watersoluble, translucent ideal for building layers, wet
  2. Masking fluid = prevents paint from bleeding into areas that they want to remain white
  3. Poster (Gouache) = quite heap, opaque, harder to layer
  4. Acrylics = very flexible, water based, can be painted thinly or thickly, dries quickly, becomes water resistant when dry
• When drawing start by breaking down into basic geometric shapes
• Do freehand sketching, use lots of little strokes
• Create depth by playing around with shadows
• Be aware of the light source
• DIRECTIONAL LIGHTS include spotlights, torches, floodlights; anything pointed in a direction. illuminates a small concentrated area
• POINT LIGHTS shine light in all directions, e.g a light bulb
• PARALLEL LIGHTS are distant light sources. They are directional but because they are in the distant, the light spreads
• AMBIENT "refers to the environmental lighting hitting the object from nondirect sources"
• Crosshatching is a way of providing shading with small strokes that cross over each other, best to use on flat surfaces
• Adding tone and contrast to an object will give it a sense of strength and drama
• TONE refers to lightness and darkness of a shade
• CONTRAST is the distinction between the light and dark tonal areas in an image.
• PERSPECTIVE: geometric technique used to add depth to flat artwork, has 3D qualities
• XYZ axis
• VANISHING POINT: "the point at which the lines that are projected from the edges of an object meet together"
• FORESHORTENING: things appearing to get smaller the further away they are
• DEPTH OF FIELD: blurry background, adds depth to an image, I WILL TRY TO EXPERIMENT WITH THE FOCUS RING ON MY CAMERA