ITAP LECTURE 4


Drawing in your RVJ

Drawing is a very important part of design as it gets your ideas from your head onto paper or an RVJ so that they can develop further or into other things. Drawing and creative thinking are the same thing, when designing you shouldn't draw just to make a nice picture, you should draw for ideas and get all of the different ideas in your head down onto paper so you can see the journey of your thinking, these drawings do not have to be perfect as long as they communicate your ideas. Drawing also doesn't have to be just pencil on paper, you can use all different kinds of medias from pastels and paints to sticking down 3D and textured objects. Drawing is about exploring your ideas, techniques and methods to create peices of art. It is also about exploring your imagination and showing the development from what your original ideas turn out to be.


Cyclic Design Process

The design process is the same each time. You think about the brief and what you're going to do, you plan what you are going to create, you make the final outcome, then evaluate what you have done. While designing something this process can happen time and time again until the very final piece is created. You could come up with hundreds of potential ideas before finding the final solution that will work for example Thomas Edison designed over 10,000 prototypes of the incandescent light bulb until he found one that worked. While designing you should constantly ask whether it could look better and if it could work better.