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Activity 15. We're going to use this creating technique now
to produce some complex drawings.
The first one's going to use the vertical double cube
to produce a chess piece.
The second one's going to use side by side cubes
to convert into a piece of furniture, something like a sofa.
I start off as I have done in the other activities
with this Y shape here.
And I'm using those to estimate where the other lines go to.
I project that front face up
and I'm going to approximately judge the height of that
and then project those, cross over there
and using my other lines to help estimate that
and project that down to there.
Okay, so I've got two cubes one on top of the other.
I'm going to convert this into a chess piece
and this is like the one that appears in the work book.
I'm going to join those two corners together
and then I'm going to join that corner
and that corner and if I use my thicker nibbed pen now
I can actually begin to strengthen up that drawing
so you can see what it is.
What it's supposed to be.
That's the advantage of having one of these thicker pens on hand.
You can begin to identify what is the construction line
and what is the outline.
I could further increase that image of tone
by using that technique we used at the beginning of these exercises
to give you some idea of shading on this object.
Just rather quickly put in.
You can see we appear to have now two wedge-shaped pieces
which could be some abstract form
or I could begin to develop that into something else.
It's a way of developing design sketches
using the simple creating technique.
The side by side cubes,
again I start exactly as I started before
having the single shape,
project that line out, project these lines out,
estimating where that's going to be
and projecting those back like that.
Now I'm going to use that double cube to convert into a settee.
If I begin to block in my outlines to here
and then construct these.
And I'm using the lines that I've already got as guidelines
to help me draw the object under consideration.
So you'll see this begin to emerge in a minute.
So here's my sofa.
It's a rather cubic sofa, probably not very comfortable.
I'll turn that around.
And you can see I've got a passable representation of an object
which has been constructed into those cubes.
So we've got two objects that begin to show us
sketch representations of objects
but they've been constructed by some very simple cube forms
which are easy to produce.