Week Two: Monday

In today's lecture we discussed semiotics, in particular Icon, Index and Symbol. I learned the difference between these three aspects. In class, we were given a range of different paper and all sorts of pens/pencils/paint to work with. The whole class was focussed around drawing our object of choice in ways that we never would have thought of before.

For me, the drawing in class has been so useful for my self confidence as I have always thought that I'm not a great drawer. This exercise didn't change my artistic abilities but the way I view my own art. I realised that even without making my drawings super realistic, I can still tell exactly what the object is and it even gives it more life when I didn't think about the details such as shading and highlighting. My most favourite drawing exercise we did was with the craft paper and ink where we were given 10 seconds to quickly draw just the silhouette of our item. I think that my drawings came out the best here. This is a technique that I feel quite drawn to using in my designs as abstraction is more my style than realism.

A scan of the 10 second silhouette drawings I referenced above.

Workbook