Week 1

Week 1

In our first environment design class, we delved into the fundamentals of sketching and its critical role in our journey as budding designers. I am convinced that sketching is an indispensable tool for sparking creativity and honing design ideas, engaging our senses in the process. It facilitates quick visualization and provides flexibility through techniques such as texture, shadow, and materiality. Our lecturer illustrated these concepts with examples in his slides, showing how adding elements like texture, shadow, and materiality can enhance the appeal and communicative power of our drawings. During the session, we also explored various sketching techniques we will learn this semester, including drawing perspectives, creating objects from geometric shapes, human figures, landscapes, and sketching interior features.

The first exercise our lecturer assigned was simple: draw lines freehand on a blank sheet of paper without using a ruler. At first, I was surprised by this task, but I quickly realized its purpose. Repeated practice taught me that this exercise is meant to build our confidence and speed in drawing, encouraging us to make each line boldly. This practice helps us develop the skill to sketch quickly and effectively convey our design ideas.