Unit 3: Communication of Ideas

Question 1

What is important when solving a design problem?

Answer 1

Putting your ideas on paper.

Question 2

What will help your picture your ideas in your mind?

Answer 2

Notes and drawings

Question 3

What will illustrate to everyone what you’re thinking?

Answer 3

Drawings.

Question 4

What is the easier method of explaining your idea to someone?

Answer 4

Showing them a sketch.

Question 5

What are the first lines to be drawn?

Answer 5

Construction lines are the first to be drawn.

Question 6

List four things about construction lines.

Answer 6

• They are light and thin
• They can be easily erased
• They are used to develop the sketch.
• They can be horizontal, perpendicular, vertical, circular, or parallel.

Question 7

What are object lines?

Answer 7

They are thicker and darker lines that outline the object.

Question 8

What are detail lines?

Answer 8

They are thin, dark lines you use to for any detail in your sketch.

Question 9

What do we use drawings for?

Answer 9

To communicate ideas.

Question 10

List the order in which the sketches are drawn.

Answer 10

1. Preliminary sketches
2. Development sketches
3. Presentation drawings
4. Technical/Working drawings

Question 11

What two types of drawings are used when designing and developing an idea?

Answer 11

Artistic and technical.

Question 12

List some points about preliminary sketches.

Answer 12

• Quick, rough, and freehand.
• Used to convey info related to shape, form, overall appearance.
• Include info on key ideas, eg. Materials used, etc.
• After one is done, others can be made.

Question 13

List some points about Presentation Drawings

Answer 13

• Shows what the finished product will look like.
• Very artistic (usually 3D)
• Accurate but DOESN’T show too much technical info. – Main purpose is to sell or explain the design.
• Rendered to show colours, finishes, suitable materials, etc.

Question 14

List some points about Technical/Working Drawings

Answer 14

• Final stage of the Illustration Design Process
• Precise and detailed, provides exact and complete info
• 2D
• Shows orthographic views
• Shows shape, dimensions, size, specifications, etc.
• Uses drawings to build from
• BLUEPRINTS.

Question 15

Why are working drawings called working drawings?

Answer 15

Because the drawing should be so detailed the one can actually build someone from it.