Methods for Improving Undergraduate Students' Sketching Skills

Dong, Hua; Cifter, Abdusselam Selami; Fan, Zhong

doi:10.7227/ijmee.41.4.7

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“…Consequently, learning how to interpret and represent on paper a volume observed in real space helps to represent other similar volumes when they cannot be seen, giving the industrial designer powerful tools to represent fictitious geometries of new conceptual designs. In addition to learning to improve observational skills, to achieve an adequate skill in freehand sketching, it is necessary to practice it continuously over time, introducing the manual drawing as an inseparable part of each design project that students face (Dong, Cifter, and Fan 2013). Trying to find a solution to the difficulties of the students in the use of freehand sketching is what has motivated to propose a different learning methodology in this subject.…”

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confidence: 99%

Enhancing Freehand Sketching in Industrial Design: Description and Implementation of a Drawing Methodology for More Effective Representations

Miralles¹,

Lizandra²

2018

The International Journal of Design Education

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Freehand sketching is an important part of the design process that allows one to communicate in a quick and gestural way the first ideas about new concepts and is a medium for graphic thinking. It is important for architects and designers because it is a mechanism of representation, conceptualization, and abstraction for the communication between the creators and their audience. All academic courses related to industrial design include subjects aimed at acquiring skills in the use of manual tools of graphic representation, recognizing their importance in the integral training of the designer. However, sometimes the methodologies implemented in some subjects fail to develop adequately the skills of the students, who finish their studies with shortcomings in the field of graphic representation. This paper describes exercises that are part of a methodology designed to help students of industrial design acquire the skills to make an agile and effective use of freehand sketching. Through different uses of the elements of formal expression, the exercises address topics such as shape analysis, composition, light, color, and descriptive illustration. The methodology is applied experimentally in a subject of the bachelor's degree in industrial design and product development engineering at Jaume I UniversityUniversitat Jaume I, introducing the students to different instruments and techniques of sketching and proposing various enriching ways of direct observation of the objectual reality that surrounds them. The paper concludes by evaluating the positive impact of the implemented methodology.

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Section: Methodology and Detection Of Shortcomingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Freehand Sketching in Industrial Design: Description and Implementation of a Drawing Methodology for More Effective Representations

Miralles¹,

Lizandra²

2018

The International Journal of Design Education

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“…In fact, one of the main problems highlighted by these analyses is the students’ difficulties in understanding the three‐dimensional shape of objects starting from their two‐dimensional representations or their poor sketching abilities . In the literature, there are several examples of analysis and optimization of this type of problems usually resolved with the creation of ad hoc courses, with the development of specific software tools, or the use of 3D CAD applications to improve the understanding of the spatiality of three‐dimensional objects .…”

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TDEG based framework and tools for innovation in teaching technical drawing: The example of LaMoo project

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Motyl

Paderno

et al. 2018

Comp Applic In Engineering

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This work presents the development of an integrated framework and related tools for innovation and improvement in the teaching of Technical Drawing. This framework is based on the “Technical Drawing Evaluation Grid—TDEG.” This grid is currently used, by the authors, for the definition and the development of different kinds of tools for supporting both teaching and learning and for the evaluation of Technical Drawing and engineering graphics topics knowledge in general. In particular, this paper focuses on the problems related to knowledge evaluation and assessment of Technical Drawing using online tests. Then, the LaMoo project which is a tool under development for the structured construction of questions for online tests in Moodle environment is presented.

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“…Thus, once the industrial designer learns how to represent on paper a volume that sees in real space, it may be easier for him or her to represent other volumes not seen. Additionally, to improve manual sketching skills it is also required daily, continuous and intensive practice during the entire course, using hand-drawing in each design project developed by students (Dong et al 2013). …”

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Sketching as a communication tool and a vehicle for exploring new ideas in Higher Education of industrial design. Implementation and analysis of new methodologies

Navarro

Miralles

2017

Mult.J.Edu.Soc.Tec.Sci.

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Freehand drawing is a basic tool to explore shapes and visualize ideas during the first phase of projective process in industrial design. Sketches, expressive and quickly executed, allow designers to highlight the most interesting aspects of the product to be designed and help to define its shape and general features. Due to the immediacy that characterizes the manual drafting industrial designers in training learn to become able to translate any ideas graphically and thus able to communicate with other designers, initiating a dialogue on the product to be designed. In the Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering at the Jaume I University of Castellón (Spain), the subject 'Artistic Expression II' maintains and strengthens the knowledge gained in other subjects about the different graphic techniques, making drawing a means of expression for represent, synthesize and define the shape of objects. However, it has been found that the subject procedures were not adequate to achieve the learning results proposed, so it was necessary to apply a new approach. This paper describes the implementation of a new methodological strategy on this subject, adapting it to the European Higher Education Area, with the aim that students in Industrial Design acquire the four core competences of this matter. We describe the activities designed to achieve each of the competences and the implemented methodology for each of these activities. Finally, the results are analyzed and the overall positive impact of the measures taken is discussed.

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Methods for Improving Undergraduate Students' Sketching Skills

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Enhancing Freehand Sketching in Industrial Design: Description and Implementation of a Drawing Methodology for More Effective Representations

Enhancing Freehand Sketching in Industrial Design: Description and Implementation of a Drawing Methodology for More Effective Representations

TDEG based framework and tools for innovation in teaching technical drawing: The example of LaMoo project

Sketching as a communication tool and a vehicle for exploring new ideas in Higher Education of industrial design. Implementation and analysis of new methodologies

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