Blog Entry 3 (Covers Week 5 + Practical 2 )

Week 5

In week 5, we were introduced to one point and two point perspective drawing. But before that we started small first. We practice sketching straight lines without a ruler and drawing circles. Then we started drawing milk carton and book in one point and two point perspectives.

After all this warm up sketching, the class was asked to draw a coffee maker in either one or two point perspective. I choose to sketch it in two point perspective.

Below is the picture of the sketch i drew:

I know i know, its ugly🥲. In fact i don't even know if this counts as a two point perspective sketch anymore. But hey this is my first time. At least i tried🤩.

As part of our report, we had to draw our eventual product in one or two point perspective also. 

Here is the sketch in two point perspective:

Beside sketching, we were also introduced to Fusion 360. I was quite excited on starting this lesson as this is my first time creating something that can be 3D printed 😄. Fusion 360 is a software for 3D modelling. The teacher started us off by guiding us step by step on how to create a key-ring tag using the software. After familarising ourself with the various function in the software, the teacher than task us to design a photoframe using the software. It is a group work so since we had 4 members in the group. We each took a component to do. 

I have embed the photoframe here:

Practical 2

We also had our session on practical 2 this week. At the start of the lesson, the teacher introduced the many different type of cardboard joinery. After that, we were given cardboards and tools such as hot glue gun and pen knife etc to produce a cardboard model that contains at least 6 different type of cardboard joinery. 

At first, we were quite clueless on what to model to do. You can say we were like headless chicken🐔. Because of that, we spend the next 30 minutes not starting on making the model but on discussing what model to do. An idea about making a sword was suggested but after thinking about it we realised that it was quite hard for a sword to meet the 6 joinery requirement so there were some disagreements to proceed for this idea. In the end, we finally decided on making a vending machine model. 

To get a better idea on how to start, we search up some youtube videos on how to make it. However, we only did that to get the general structure of the vending machine. We all decided not to follow the videos step by step and instead to let our creativity take over and modify some things here and there. To be honest we didn't even have a sketch drawn before we started which is a bit risky but luckily it was successful in the end🥳. We just kinda make up the dimensions and modifications on the spot as we go along making the model.

Finally after around perhaps 1½ hours of making the vending machine model, we were finally done with it!!!🤩 I took some pictures of the model we make.

Below are the pictures: 

The front view of the model

The inside view of the model

The top view of the model

The so call "push button" mechanism

 

The "compartment" for holding the product

And other pictures i took😎

Oh BTW, this model is actually a working mechanism 😎 because when the push tab is push, the pepsi can model we make can actually be dispensed into the bottom door.

I have learn a lot through this practical. I have learn about the different types of cardboard such as that cardboard is made out of liners and fluting and that actually there are different categories of fluting and so many more.

Another takeaway i feel could be helpful for future learning is that, i sort of learn how to manipulate the cardboard into the different shapes i want. I have a feeling this will not be the last time i will be using cardboard to make models. So having hands on experience and knowing how to work with cardboard will definitely help me in future learning.