Design and sketch
Creative sketch, also called design sketch.
So why should the selection of candidates for design majors be different?
The reason is that creative sketch, compared with still life or portrait sketch, tests whether candidates are flexible and novel in conception, have a basic understanding of plane composition and are suitable for learning design. These are reflected in my own art studio. Some students feel that they can't draw creative sketches and have no ideas in their minds, so they feel that they are not suitable for learning design.
Design sketch is different from ordinary still life sketch, which can directly exercise the part of our ability that we need to learn.
At that time, after the entrance examination of fine arts, I gradually came into contact with creative sketches and prepared for the environmental design major of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. I had many factors such as motivation, interest and self-confidence, so I studied these carefully. And I also like to draw design sketches, which is very meaningful in itself, so I really want to talk to you about this topic.
In retrospect, the study of design sketch at that time had a great influence on my professional study now. I read very few professional books, and I have eaten a lot of old books in my current study. In many assignments, I can feel my perception of the three major components, which were accumulated at that time.
First of all, I want to ask you, what are we sketching for? To put it bluntly, what are we painting to learn?
The specific arrangement of art classes in our school should be slightly different, but the learning objectives are probably the same.
First of all, it must be to cultivate interest in art and improve artistic accomplishment, because everyone is basically a science major. The most important thing is that a large part of education in our country lacks beauty, regardless of arts and sciences. Through art study, everyone will have some basic understanding of beauty in the course. And after class, I am interested in beauty and art, to learn about art and other types of design. Such as industrial design, fashion design, graphic design. These are all very interesting.
Secondly, it is also the direct purpose, which is to let students have certain painting ability.
But there are two misunderstandings in this part.
Everyone says that students of art design and environmental design draw well, and feel that their drawing ability is a disadvantage and a shortcoming. In fact, there is no need to worry that your poor painting level will affect your studies.
Because the requirements of architecture specialty for painting are different from those of art specialty.
An obvious example is that the recognition of the old eight schools of architecture in the industry is much higher than that of the relevant majors of the Academy of Fine Arts. In some good art colleges in China, such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, there are architectural design majors, while there are many environmental design majors, but their recognition is much worse than that of some engineering colleges such as the Old Eight Schools. Because of what, a "master painter" can't become a "master architect" directly. The gap between the two types of students in the primary stage of my task lies in thinking, which the Academy of Fine Arts can't learn. In our school, the senior and senior students who are more successful in art design have basically made up this part of the idea at the undergraduate stage. In other words, this kind of thinking in engineering universities is the basis of architectural design. In other words, this kind of thinking is much more important than the skill at hand in painting.
The ability to draw is not so important, but it doesn't mean that the sketch course is not important, but that our learning goal is not to be so proficient in the kung fu of our opponents, but to learn to say what we want to say through our own drawing ability. When the students of our major study art before the undergraduate course, what they pursue in the picture effect is the sense of picture. If the basic sketch knowledge is expressed in place, the stronger the picture effect, the higher the score. From an artistic point of view, the more works with pure beauty, the more handed down from generation to generation. However, the painting of architecture major is not like this. Architectural painting emphasizes interpretation. When the basic modeling ability is enough, the painting ability we need to learn from sketch will come to an end.
Then, under the gradual exercise of the overall ability of painting, which aspects should we focus on?
Sketch will be of great significance to the basic learning stage of design, and sketch is of great importance to design.
Sketch is the foundation of all fine arts, and all beautiful things are closely related to sketch.
Sketch is the expression of comprehensive processing of visual information, which has inherent significance: there are cognition, aesthetic concept, imagination or other thinking activities about the internal mechanism of things in front of us; There are also external observed objects, such as proportion, light and shade, texture, perspective, shape and other external forms.
In the direction of architectural design, more composition techniques are used. Composition is the relationship between cold and warm in density, black and white and color. These are all a kind of balance. How to put several massive objects is the balance? This is composition. If this block object is a building, then this is the design of the block. In fact, we don't have to be good at sketching, and we don't need to study texture. But it is very important to know composition, learn to arrange pictures, observe and reorganize, which is the third aspect we should learn through sketching.
And design sketch can directly exercise this part of the ability.
Design sketch is a professional basic course to express design intention and train the ability of drawing design forecast diagram by expressing visual communication and modelling technique in scale, perspective, three-dimensional space concept and analysis of human internal structure. In other words, in the process of learning design sketch, you can establish your own design basic thinking.
So what is the relationship between the design sketch and the design on the screen?
Let's go into time and look at the picture and talk.
Just use these two schemes to give you a feeling. You can observe for yourself. Many excellent architectural designs will not have redundant parts or abrupt designs on the floor plan. These abilities of balancing and arranging objects can be exercised through the ability of composition during sketching.
The above dozens of sketches illustrate the real design sketches. In essence, design sketch and design are the same thing. What we do is to talk about the reasonable combination of different modeling elements, and then show it in a realistic way. The essence of design is also the process of planning and constructing the shape and structure of things. The design sketch itself is a design, and it is a layout, layout framework or page in itself.
In these small drafts, we can find that there are only a few objects. In this limited object, limited texture and limited time, a complete design process has been completed. This kind of examination is the secret of screening students in major art colleges.
The difference is sketching. Sketch tests basic skills more than design.
I hope that through my explanation, you can better understand why we should learn sketch and what we should learn. I also hope everyone can fall in love with painting. Painting is a wonderful thing. .