Thinking Through Drawing Portfolio

|Thinking Through Drawing

Portfolio Jocelyn Martos Castillo 2022

Contents Convention

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Redrawing

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Sequences & layering

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Translation

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Drawing in the field

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Drawing with lenses

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Bibliography

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Task 1

Convention “Draw your breakfast in plan, section and elevation”

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I found it interesting how three-dimensional particularly challenging and made me realize elements were broken down into two-dimensional the layered shapes forming a singular object. representations of them. Furthermore, cutting As a result of this exercise, I gained a better through the irregular shapes like the round understanding of how even everyday objects plate, the spoon and the angled sandwich was have complex physical properties.

Plan

Elevation

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Section AA

Section BB

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Task 2

Redrawing “Make 6 copies of the Latina library facade with your own alterations & carefully copy a Moodle drawing”

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Latina library facade

Tried playing with curved shapes, extending them from the balcony to the platform.

Redrawing 1

Redrawing 2

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Redrawing 3

Redrawing 4

Experimenting with different curves and contrasting them with straight lines forming sharp points.

Redrawing 5

Redrawing 6

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Figure 1: N. 79/100 Axonometric, 19301983 (Source: Collection Centre Canadien dÁrchitecture, no date.: Online)

Used fineliners of different widths, square ruler and french curves. I struggled slightly with the finer details like the hand railings and stairs. Some parts were overlined and still felt a bit awkward using the french curves.

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Task 3

Sequences & Layering “Draw a series of perspectives describing a route”

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At the circuit for environmental interaction of the Grau seawall, Magdalena del Mar, Lima, Peru Even when walking through a small portion of the circuit the textured surroundings of the plants and trees was eye-catching and exciting. The drawings move from the outside of the circuit to the inside and arrive at a prominent resting point. I used cross-hatching to highlight the natural textures of the space and show the hierarchy of the elements in the landscape as seen by the eye.

In the last panel, despite arriving at a “destination“, the composition allows seeing that there is more path to explore.

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Task 4

Translation “Copy a drawing from any of the slideshows using the ´wrong´ instruments”

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Copy of The origin of painting by David Allan (1775) 23 cm x 16 cm - School tempera on sketchbook paper

Figure 2: The origin of painting (Source: Lucas, 2022)

The painting reflects on what one would seem unsophisticated or inadequate. It was hard understand as ´wrong´ instruments. As a result to paint details and lines precisely, which caused of thinking about how brushes are extensions the scene´s elements to become synthesized of our bodies, I decided to apply the school into their basic shapes. Nonetheless, I like the tempera with my fingers, a medium that may expressive quality of imperfection.

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Copy of Track prints as narrative devices in “Walibri graphic art and sand drawing” by Nancy Munn (1960) 23 cm x 20 cm - School tempera on plastic cellophane bag

Figure 3: Emu and eggs (Source: Lucas, 2022)

Continuing on the idea of ´wrong´ instruments come through the paint and made evident the I used cellophane as support for the school different densities of tempera created by the tempera. Using a platic surface allowed light to strokes made by my fingers.

Figure 4: Emu and snake (Source: Lucas, 2022)

Painting with my fingers did not only made property of finger painting made it difficult to lines less crisp and precise (as seen with the create longer, continous strokes. For example, in previous painting) but doesn´t allow a uniform the snake the outline had to be painted in shorter application of the medium. This particular strokes.

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Skills task 1

Field drawings “Present 8 pages of your sketchbook recording your field trip”

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Diagrams, plans, elevations, and axonometries were helpful tools in dissecting how space composition, design, and circulation contributed to the user’s experience. Additionally, I also got to understand elements like structure in relation to shape.

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Skills task 2

Drawing with lenses “Compose a series of carefully taken photographs exploring a theme.”

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Textures of Cajamarca At Cajamarca, Peru

Banos del Inca hot springs

Former men´s hospital

Cathedral

Bethelem church

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As the first conquered city of the Spanish invasion, Cajamarca has colonial architecture preserved in its baroque churches.

The intricate concrete designs that adorn these historic buildings contrast with the rough stone walls that support their imponent vaulted ceilings.

In the street, colourful indigenous art decorates the urban landscape of white adobe houses and stone walls on which terracotta tiles lay. In Cajamarca the natural and man-made textures of its buildings speak for its history and culture, combining Spanish and vernacular motifs and materials.

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Women´s former hospital

Cane roof

Wild chamomile

Cumbemayo

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Bibliography Collection Centre Canadien d´Architecture (no date) N. 79/100 Axonometric.[Online] [Accessed on 12th December 2022] https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/details/collection/object/334408 Lucas, R. (2022) 4: Thinking in gesture. 207-page lecture notes, in lecture 4 for module ´Thinking through drawing´.

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