Final Week before Revision Period

For this week, I'm going to finish up all the unfinished tasks and assignment for my Graphic Communication subject, compiled them and present them in a port folio form. That's one.

Two, I'm going to submit my term paper on Tadao Ando for my Intro. to Built Environment subject. Pray hard I'll get 20% solid.

and three, I'm going to submit the maths assignment. Hopefully I'll get the 10% and that'll adds up to my 36% carry marks. I'm going to need at least 39% out of 45% to get a solid A.

Then, I can finally focus on my preparation for final exams.



that's all for now. Until next post, au revoir!

IBE Assignment

As for today, I decided to work on my Intro. to Built Environment term paper where we're required to choose any international prominent architect (still practicing) and discuss his works, contribution in the field of architecture, experience and educational background. We can also include critic of his works in the literature if we want to.

It's a 10 to 15 pages of course including photos and this is to be submitted on next Wednesday. 

Me? I chose Tadao Ando. 

Well, I love Frank Lloyd Wright (who doesn't?) and since Tadao Ando is in fact influenced by his works, and of course Le Corbusier's, Louis Kahn's, and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe's works too and therefore, I chose him. 

...yeah, to those who know me definitely will say it's because he's Japanese and he even built his firm in Osaka (Tadao Ando Architect and Associates) instead of Tokyo where people believe that it's better to start in the most populated city in the world. No my friends, it's not because of that. 

Anyway, I'm going to gather some information from the Internet and going to the library probably tomorrow to borrow some books (our library's collection on this guy is unbelievably small. Only 6 or less books. Not to mention those in other campus libraries) and hopefully be done by Monday cause by Monday, I need to start on my Maths assignment and of course to work on my port folio. 

until next entry, au revoir!

Am I Serious?

A classmate asked me a question this afternoon.

"Which department are you going to next semester?" 


Before this, I would definitely say it it right out. But all of a sudden, my voice stuck and I was speechless. For a moment there, I was 100% sure that I have a second thought regarding this matter.

No, E. I told myself. This is it. After 4 wrong stations in 2 terminals, this is the one. I got the ticket in my hands right now and all this while I am almost 80% sure about the road I was about to hit. There's no way I'm backing out of this.

"I'm going to architecture, if God's willing. Of course it depends on so many factors we know but yes. That's the plan."


Right after that, I got my IBE mid term's result.

One word. Awesome!

Next, we set the date for our final exam which is going to be on 3rd of January. Maths' paper going to be on 8th.


Dear God, I need the strength to keep heading forward in my life. Give me guidances and patients so I could go through this. Amin.


Au revoir,

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GC: Assignment #15

The 15th assignment given to us today is the lettering assignment. Pretty easy I guess...

I'm still working on my previous assignment though~

Got Math quiz on logarithm and matrices next Thursday...

Nothing much to say... it's been real crazy for the past 2 weeks... with the finals are getting closer...

Class of 2011...

Well, for Graphic Communication... :D

From left: Mirwan (Cambodian), Abdullah (Palestinian), Nabil (Malaysian), Hazem (Canadian), our Bro. Zakaria a.k.a Zack, almost invisible Bayan (Saudi Arabian), Huda (Nigerian)

At the back: the tallest Awni (Palestinian) and Ahmed (Palestinian).

Peace 'em out!

GC: Assignment #14... Part I

So we arrived to the 14th assignment~ few weeks left before the port folio day... *Nervous!

Okay, first of all... after doing a little research on residences during Nara period (8th century), I decided on Fujiwara no Toyonari's mansion.

The first source I could find in our own Resource Centre is this book : 'What is Japanese Architecture: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture' by Kazuo Nishi and Kazuo Hazumi, first published in 1985 by Kodansha America. I got the second edition, published in 1996 by Kodansha International.

About the book: it's a super guide for the understanding of the form and structure of traditional, historic Japanese architecture. Many diagrams of structures. Not lots of photos - but the illustrations of construction techniques, plans, sections and elevations give a different perspective than the plentiful picture books of Japanese architecture.

A clip from the book. Just a preview. This is copyright material. 

The challenge here is to understand the measurement used during this period which are the ken (translated to 'bay' in English), shaku, and sun. Up to this day, 1 ken is approximately to 1.818m, and every ken is equivalent to 6 shaku and 1 shaku is equivalent to 10 sun. For this very assignment, I only used up until shaku and that's it.

About this mansion, it belonged to Fujiwara no Toyonari and according to the book aforementioned above, it was thought to have five ken wide and 3 ken deep. Referring to the one after Sekino Masaru, seems to me the mansion was built symmetrically.

I also found the mansion being illustrated in D.K. Ching's book, Design Drawing. The illustration in there is clearer and closer to the real measurement.

As for the assignment, we have to do the floor plan, the elevations, and later on the axonometric plan view. I'm half way done for the floor plan (I was home throughout the previous week) so I barely started the drawing.

Any who, I'm going to gather some information on IBE's assignment before getting on with this one.


Signing out!

E

Books Suggestions

I've been asking here and there... and for you guys out there who have some time to check out some books during your free time, I'm planning to post series of entries of books suggestions that I picked from lecturers, seniors, and of course forums and architectural sites.

If you guys have any ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS or magazines suggestions for me, do drop some comments, yeah!

Getting Inspired

I read about this on Tanggam.com and I would like to share with you guys out there...

The title of the post is "Mental Block? No Idea for Design?"

Point number one would be reading some magazines that has good reviews first. Not just looking at pictures. Some reviews are descriptive, some are critical. Go for critical ones as these can tell you not only what's good about a design but also WHY. They also often compare with other good or similar design.

...and of course, it goes without saying that we need to improve our vocabulary each and every day for this... If you think you can tackle heavy reading right away, you're wrong. I learned it hard way so trust me. 

Point number two is traveling. But only when you have obtained comfortable amount of vocabulary then it is wise to travel to great places. I'm talking about design language vocabulary here. We have to be able to communicate what we see and feel when we go to a site. Simply 'nice', 'cozy', and 'beautiful' aren't just good enough. We must know what exactly that makes us feel that way and why or else traveling or visiting great places might not reveal any substantial results within the time frame.

I really have to agree with the point stated above. A lecturer suggested for us to go somewhere around the city to explore local architecture but it seems that it'll go to waste if we're not sure what are we looking at... or looking for... 


As for myself, the first thing I do after I turned on the research mode button, I just started Googling and Yahoo!-ing. Then I'll holed up in the university library for hours, trying to get some books that can help me. Followed with sessions of few minutes with some seniors.... 


Okay, I guess that's all. I'll post some more later!

GC: Assignment #13... Part II

Okay... This is after I finished the rendering part...

Basically I did all the things that the lecturer asked us to do. Even though he only asked for one elevation, I did two i.e. the south and east elevations...

When I got myself into the studio this morning, I saw every single soul in there is still on process drawings. Hence, after I presented these to my lecturer, there was some sort of misunderstanding which I cleared out ASAP (about the 60 degree roof) where the base for the front elevation is 3.9m and it peaked at 3.37m (made it to 3.4m instead)... It's just a simple trigonometry, bro! Don't get yourself mixed up~

Anyway, I got myself the latest assignment which is to study a bit about vernacular architecture i.e. the traditional houses... The awesome thing about this assignment is that I got to choose ANY traditional house from ANY country.

Fine... I'll do extra homework on Malay house... But Japanese traditional houses PLUS the Japanese garden (can't get any better) are MUST!

Alright peeps, I need to hit the SkyBus that'll take me LCCT Airport as I'm going back to KK, Sabah. My bro is getting engaged this weekend so I'm going to skip this week's classes. No worries as I already informed my IBE and Maths lecturers... Good thing I never skip class before so they know that I'm not messing around by skipping their classes...

I'll see you guys next week!

Signing out!


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Update on December, 6th...

Supposedly, as for the cross section, no need the north pointer... and that one should be in engineering drawing 'mode' not to be rendered that way~

It's okay, we all learn from mistakes...

GC: Assignment #13... Part I

Like I said in the previous post, we learned about axonometric drawing and today is the day I have to submit it to the lecturer. Even though we need to submit the drawing in fully rendered, I decided to show him my preliminary drawing that I drew on a vellum first.

This is it! A product of approximately 4 hours...

eMainaiSe Gazebo

This is the first drawing.. Just for guidelines i.e. the mainframe of the idea itself.

Some of you probably wondered just now, what is this is, right? Apparently this is a gazebo. A traditional Malay gazebo called Wakaf in Malay language.

Next step would be the rendering part... Which I'm not really sure on how to come out with a good rendering techniques... hmm~

Anyway, since there's some sort of misunderstanding regarding the roof, I decided to re-do even though the lecturer said he's fine with it. There's no way I'm gonna accept that. I'm preparing myself mentally and physically to face the KAED lecturers in near future so yes. I'm trying to push myself further than I can ever be pushed.

Anyway, in continuation to this assignment, we have to add 3 things which are the front elevation, one side elevation, and one cross section of the gazebo.

I'll update some more later on.

Until then, toodles!

Stairs... Oh Stairs...

For the weekend, the reading assignment given is about stairs...

But first thing first, you should choose which country's standard you want. As for me, I chose Approved Document K as it is considered as the bible for staircase design in England and Wales.

Mathematically speaking, it's kinda easy to understand the dimensions of the stairs. It's not that much of calculations. The rest is all about adding some new vocabularies and enjoying the cool design of stairs...

Anyway, these are some of the photos that I found... I would say, these goes on the list of my future house design. =)

BTW, some of the photos link back to the source.

this reminds of something that I saw in one of Phaidon's books that this is part of the design studio of someone that's in-charge of designing the Apple retail store or something... I'll get back to this later...

Yup! That colour with that wall... Nice!

I love this one.. Like DNA... =)

Okay, that's all for now... I'll post up some more later! Need to hit the bed and maybe try to get some sleep!

Night, world!

Education of Architecture

This is actually a title from a forum that I've been reading since early this year, it's in English mostly but of course it's Malaysian-based so... Anyway, if you guys wanna check it out, here's the link... This post dated around 2004, which is 7 years ago, so I'll just pick whatever that still relevant to this day of 2011.

Anyway, after some consideration, I would like to write some sort of summary for this very topic and try my best to relate it to my experiences studying under Architecture and Environmental Design Department of CELPAD of this university.

First thing first, under this department, we have to take 4 subjects, Graphic Communication (GC), Introduction to Built Environment (IBE), Basic Computing Skills, and Mathematics (as in Pre-Calculus with a bit of Statistics). GC is a studio subject though sadly we only entered the studio in the middle of the semester while IBE is an introduction subject where we learned some introductions of the 5 departments under the Faculty i.e. KAED itself.

In the topic, someone said that we have to treat the studio subject not on its own cause it is actually very well connected to other subjects as well hence apply what we learned from these other subjects and try to integrate the knowledge into our design.

In my case, recently we got an assignment where we're required to design our own topography, and place 3 primary solids i.e. sphere, cone, and cube on the surface and later draw the site plan, front (south) elevation, and side (west or east) elevation. We already studied a bit on topography in one of the IBE lectures and as for the placement of subjects on hills, I think it's easily can be solved by using mathematical methods. But unfortunately, some students failed to connect these knowledge because they tend to separate things in the first place.

Which leads to second point of the aforementioned someone, that certain subjects should actually be made part of the design studio.

On the degree level, yes. I totally agree with this.

She also said that in fact, it's better that they made attendance for the subjects are NOT compulsory. If you think certain subject can help you in producing your final product, come but if not, don't come. This way, the students will be much more independent.

Well, if you mean subjects, I'm not sure cause a subject in a 14 weeks-semester spans more than 10 topics, so I don't think that it's possible to not to come to any of the class. Hell, don't even need to register for the subject! BUT if we're talking about lectures, then yes. Some lectures may not helping in your design so why bother to come, right?

This actually more on the issues of whether it's relevant to come to every class i.e. signing the attendance sheet, and make sure that our absenteeism is less than 30% of the whole semester or we'll be barred from taking the final exam. Yes, people! I'm talking about the Barring System. The thing about this Barring System that seems being implemented in every faculty in our university except Engineering Faculty is, it's a good thing. Some may only see from the outside, that if you come to every class then you'll get the most (not necessarily in terms of knowledge) compare to those who skipped the class often, or if you never skip a class, you'll be the lecturer's favourite. Please! Grow up already! This isn't high school anymore!

From my experiences, how often you come to the class actually shows your commitment towards the whole subject itself. How serious you are, how bad you want to be among those who got into Architecture Department. You may as well get extra marks in the final evaluation of your grades for coming to the class more frequent than average attendance. Even if you think you don't wanna be in that awesome department in future, that's not the reason not to come cause this matter isn't merely about commitment. It's also about you, as a whole, in the eyes of your judge, in this case your lecturer. The one person that you need to be aware of, that you need to respect. Talking about respect, it is gain in mutual way. Even on this level of education. If you wanna be respected, you have to respect others as well.

Back to what she said earlier, about university students should be more independents, I'm totally agree with this. Especially after being given assignments, you naturally jump into research mode, of course after making sure that you have every single information you can get from your lecturer. It's normal for you not to know certain things, especially the basics that you should have long ago but you seems can't recall it or just never heard of it. Hence, do some research about it. Don't let yourself be in the same phase over and over again, review your progress at certain point of time. You might not realise this but sometimes your own lack of motivation to move forward is considered as selfishness and worst case scenario, hindering others as well.

All I'm saying is, we all have to remember our goal in certain matter. Progress is very important, slow progress is better than being stuck somewhere without even knowing the fact that you're stuck. This is just soft reminder, not only for you guys out there, but also for me too.


Warm regards,

IBE Mid Term

One word. Sucks! It's upon 30% actually and the questions were comprised of 30 single choices questions and 15 marks allocated on short notes questions.

Well, it wasn't really hard actually but it's pretty much confusing. For an example, who planned 'Victoria' in 1849? Was it James Beckham? Obviously not. Or James John Buckingham? Or James Silk Buckingham? or James Titus Buckingham? The answer of course is James Silk Buckingham. Sir Titus Salt was the founder of Saltaire, a Victorian model village in United Kingdom.

Anyway, I was told by the instructor that if most of us didn't score the exam, he's gonna transfer 5% of the 30% percentage to assignments later on. THAT I can count on. :D


Okay, nothing much to say today.... Have a good night people!

GC: Assignment #12

Today is the day I submitted the orthographic drawing assignment. Unfortunately, I didn't take any picture of it for you guys to see and express whatever that comes to your minds about it... I'll update later, kay!

Anyway, since all my classmates done it wrongly, all of them have to re-do and basically I'm the only one who submitted the assignment. Phew! That was a tough one! But the thing is, they got to do it more properly as our instructor revealed some other things we need to include in the drawing i.e. north pointer, graphic scale and other things...

Therefore, while others working on their previous assignment, I got some time to work on my title block design. I already came up with the layout, I got all the elements I need to put on my drawing i.e. my name, my department, matric number, drawing number, and whatnot... Probably going to put a logo or something, so people will recognise that the drawing is mine without looking at my name... :) (Still working on the design of the logo though..)


With that, I got another free-assignment weekend!


Au revoir!

Faber-Castell's 250th Birthday

KUALA LUMPUR: Almost all Malaysians would have owned a Faber-Castell pencil or pen at some point in their lives, whether in school or at work. No surprise at all.
The brand’s long presence on our shores and globally further asserts this.

A trusted companion for many since childhood with its child-safe black lead pencils, colour pencils and wax crayons, Faber-Castell has continued its journey with us through the academic years of ball pens and coloured markers into adulthood with its range of quality writing instruments and stationery.

Established in 1761, Faber-Castell is one of the oldest industrial companies in the world still operating today and 2011 marks a historic event for the company as it celebrates its 250th anniversary worldwide with all its consumers.

From its humble beginnings as a pencil-making business in Germany, Faber-Castell has grown to become a brand renowned for its high quality and innovative products, which has allowed the company to continue being relevant in today’s world of modern technology.

In conjunction with this milestone, Faber-Castell is bringing Malaysians a travelling showcase of its rich heritage and range of high quality products.

Highlights of this showcase include a display of record breaking pencils – the world’s oldest pencil from the 17th century; the world’s smallest pencil at 17.5mm length; and the world’s most expensive pencil with its cap made of solid white gold and crowned with three fine-quality diamonds, valued at RM43,000.

Members of the public can also delve into the rich history of one of the world’s oldest companies run by 8 generations of the Faber-Castell family members and see how the brand has evolved over the centuries. The German Ambassador to Malaysia, His Excellency Dr Guenter Gruber, officially kicked off the 250th anniversary exhibition at Pavilion KL.

This exhibition will travel to Queensbay Mall, Penang (Nov 24-27) and Sunway Pyramid (Feb 16-21). For more information, visit www.faber-castell.com.my.

 Source: TheBorneoPost

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Limkokwing University

8 Bachelor of Arts in Animation students from the Faculty of Multimedia Creativity participated in the Faber Castell - Grip Concept Counting Content.

Bachelor of Arts in Animation students from
Faculty of Multimedia Creativity drawing at
the exhibition. 

They showcased their drawing skills by drawing characters design - caricatures, and were also given complimentary Faber Castell stationeries including their new Grip products for usage throughout the entire event.

The university lectures assisted people in art coaching sessions, on the topics: ‘Figure & Gesture Drawings’, ‘Colour Theory’, and ‘Composition Drawing’.

More pictures: here

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From Day-Dreamer's blog... here's the link to see more of awesome pictures during the exhibition in Pavilion KL.

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Okay, I think that's all! Hopefully I can go to the exhibition next year on February... wait for it... with a DSLR camera. :D


Awesomeness,

November 11, 2011

what so special about today?

Well, it's gonna be few days left before the break is going to end! Ugh!

Last mid term paper on next Wednesday... IBE! I'm only half-way through the notes...

Again, what so special about today?

It's the day that E was born to this world...

Happy Birthday, E.

Other than that...

It's just a nice palindromic date...



Signing out!

Sketches and Silence...

I'm on semester break right now, so other than working on my previous assignments and tasks, I'm working on my sketchbook.

It's been six weeks since we had our first Graphic Communication class so basically I need to have at least 60 sketches in my sketchbook. 

I decided to give each week a theme or something. For an example, during the first week we were working on lines and lettering therefore the first theme would be the same topic. 

For the past few days, I spent at least half an hour walking around the campus, trying to find new materials for my sketches. I think I'm going to  have like more than 20 sketches merely focusing on buildings around the campus. 

It's kinda weird to see not much of people around the campus. Well, I guess it's given since it's holiday, right?

Alright, that's all for now. I promise to update real soon.

Regards, 

E

One-Point Perspective

Alright, in continuation of this entry, I hereby post some more pictures...

Towards the centre area... 

While on the bridge... Be careful! Watch your hands from getting slippery as you hold your smart phones on this very bridge...  

This is around the Edu Square...

Going towards Ameenah's Cafe... 

At one side of the library... 

As I want to take things simpler, that's why I just go around the campus instead of going off it. Plus, I can always come to these spots whenever I want... 

Alright, I think that's all. Happy semester break, y'all! =)

Warm regards,

Finally!

Yep! Finally the good part is here! As for today, we learned all the things about floor plans and elevations!

Since we're still on low level, the instructor just introduced us few things like the roof plan, floor plan,and side elevations. Not even cross sections. Well, not yet, he said.

Next we learned about topography by using a very simple example which is a terrain. Most of us got a little confused about the lines on the terrain and all though.

Anyways, as for the assignment, we're required to create our own topography and placed the 3 primary solids with fixed given dimensions anywhere around it. Later on, we need to draw apparently 3 things, the site plan on scale 1 to 50, the front elevation i.e. in my case from the south side, and the side elevation where I chose the east elevation. Simple, right?

I'm planning to use watercolor pencil to render the drawing this time and probably gonna use the charcoal for the shades.

Well, I guess I can say that it's not much of an assignment for more than a week break. Which means I can finally have a break! Weeeeeee~


Okay, peeps! I'm gonna get some chips from the kiosk as i'm gonna go for Supernatural (season 4 onwards) marathon starting tonight!


Awesomeness,

Architects Are...?

Found this from Wikipedia...

Architects are introspective, pragmatic, informative, and attentive. The scientific systemization of all knowledge, or Architectonics, is highly developed in Architects, who are intensely curious and see the world as something to be understood. Their primary interest is to determine how things are structured, built, or configured. Architects are designers of theoretical systems and new technologies. Rearranging the environment to fit their design is a distant goal of Architects.

Architects are logically and verbally precise. In casual conversations, they may be tempted to point out errors the other speaker makes, with the simple goal of maintaining clarity within the exchange. In serious discussions, Architects' abilities to detect distinctions, inconsistencies, contradictions, and frame arguments gives them an enormous advantage. In debates, Architects can sometimes be devastating, or alienate themselves from the group with overly logical arguments.

Architects tend to analyze the world in depth. They prefer to quietly work alone and they may shut other people out if they are focused on analysis. This, coupled with the fact that Architects are often quiet, makes it difficult for other individuals to get to know them. In social exchanges, Architects are more interested in informing others about what they have learned than they are interested in directing the actions of others.

Credentials or other forms of traditional authority do not impress Architects. Instead, logically coherent statements are the only things that seem to persuade them. Architects highly value intelligence, and can be impatient with people with less ability than they have. Architects often perceive themselves as being one of the few individuals capable of defining the ends a society must achieve and will often strive to find the most efficient means to accomplish their ends. This perspective can make Architects seem arrogant to others.

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I'm not sure whether to agree or not to agree with this... Part of this true though. This explains so much about Ted Mosby of HIMYM's character... But it's fictional, so... and I haven't met an architect in real life (a LOT of engineers, though)...

So, what you guys think?



P.S.: Thanks to Mr. Logorithm for quoting this in Tanggam ... =)

Officially A Junkie

The thing is, among the stuffs that I grabbed the other day a the art shop is this.

These are magic colours! I'm totally back to kindergarten! Who cares, anyway.

So, to make it less lame than what it is, I came out with these... 

This one went to my roomie, K. 

this is what I'm looking at every time I wanna plug in my MagSafe... 

This was dedicated to my babe, S but the physical of it went to my girl, R.

Alright, that's all. For now. Stay tuned, guys! :D

P.S.: This is what happen if I don't have assignments... with assignments, I'll just go crazier but without assignments, I'm back in the zone. You know what I'm saying. 

Weirdness,

Of Weststar Art Shop and KLCC.

It's Saturday and it's the opposite tradition of my family where I'll go off campus every Saturday. Therefore, as for today, I went out to Weststar Art Shops to replenish my art supplies with a classmate. 

We took the bus from the campus around 12 noon and took a cab from Wangsa Maju station to the shop. it's gonna take a long while before the bus going to move from the station so... 

After we went to all Weststar branches around there, got all the stuffs we need, we took a cab back to LRT station and headed to KL Sentral. Well, that was the plan. 

We went to KLCC, and after hanging out like 20 minutes in Kinokuniya, my classmate went off to see his brother at KL Sentral. Leaving me with Steve Jobs' biography.

 

I read like 30 pages, check out some more books on the second level where awesome architecture books filling out two-third of the area, and read some of the latest releases by my favourite author on the 'vampire' section. 

I went out of Kinokuniya around 4.30 p.m. and while I was on the way towards the elevator, I saw this. 

It's Faber-Castell's mini corner right in front of it. As you guys already know, I did missed the launching of the awesome exhibition in Pavilion KL last month, so I decided to just take some pictures. Though there are not much of things to see, still... Just bear with me, okay! 

Would love to get some of these paster colours... 

Still got to ask few questions to the sales person. Do you guys know that on the pencil colours, especially the expensive ones that are being used by professional artists, they have stars on it and every star represent 25 years of durability? 

Around 5 p.m., I went down to grab some drinks and Auntie Anne's pretzels and headed back to campus right after. 

Yes, babe... drool some more! I know they're your favourite!

Okay, peeps! It's time for another tradition - Horror Night. For tonight, I'm gonna watch A Nightmare on the Elm Street, 2010 remake of the '84 movie of the same name, directed by Samuel Bayer and produced by Michael Bay. BTW, the movie original score is damn good. Scored by my favourite composer, Steve Jablonsky, who're also the composer of Michael Bay's Transformer's Trilogy original scores. Check it out!

Enjoy your weekend, y'all!

Awesomeness,

Charcoal.. Again

As for the GC class yesterday, we're working on the entourage, in this case a group of people sitting together and therefore to accomplish this, some of us (including moi) took turn to be the models while others draw within half an hour.

I was in cadet when I was in secondary school so being still for half an hour is almost effortless. One trick will do just to make it through the whole time of stillness.

At the end of the class, me and some of the classmates are planning to go to the West Star Art Shop most probably this Saturday. Good plan I guess, as I need to replenish my colour supplies too. Probably gonna get some medium charcoal to explore some more on the medium itself.

The truth is, this is the most relaxing week I ever had since the 3rd week of this semester. of course, I have to use this time to read some more on colouring techniques and finishing up the reading on Built Environment topics.

I borrowed this book from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu via Inter-Library Loan, entitled "Environmental Science: A Global Concern" as our library's copy is still in process. Lots of easy to digest contents! Totally recommend this for those who want to read on pollution, natural resources, and global environmental issues.

As for the assignment, (finally!)  we're required to pick a full body picture of someone and tried to re-produce it i.e. re-draw it. I'm high on Pirates of the Caribbean movies right now so I'm probably gonna draw jack Sparrow or something. Hmm, nice! This adds another theme on my sketch book!


Alright, guys! It's almost 3 in the morning! I probably need to get back to bed~


Stay awesome!
E

Introduction to Charcoal

To be honest, the only time where I saw charcoal drawing is in Titanic... Wait up, some said Jack actually used coloured pencil..

Anyway, today in GC class, we were introduced to another medium, charcoal. After showing us some examples, we all then got our hands dirty and tried to draw using soft charcoal.

We're sitting in a big circle and then we're required to draw the person who was sitting right in front of us. I drew Nabil... and Mirwan. I don't wanna go into the details so I left out their faces... of course, some went disastrous, some just go crazy with it, while some just go with the flow - like me.

I don't really care about the turn outs as long I'm trying my best. Well, that was the first time I draw a person figure so as long as I got my proportion correctly, I think it's more than enough.

I'm going to get some charcoal to practice some more. probably I'll get those hard ones so they won't smear so much. Bro. Zack said another method to draw using charcoal is to ground it and spread it on a paper then by using fingers, erasers and whatnot, we tried to work those graphite sprinkles into shapes. I haven't tried it out but it does sounds interesting.

Names like Marcel Duchamp came out so we did a little discussion on some of his works.

...and for the very first time, we don't have any assignment for the next class! Weeeeeeeee~!!!! This actually gives me some more time to work on my previous assignments.

For those who want to try out this medium, be prepared with wet tissues or good soap to get rid those dirt on your hands later. =)


Signing out! ... To the Math class!

GC: Assignment #10 Part I

As for today, we walked from KAED's Tutorial Room 4 - where my usual class is being held, to the Main Hall in Cultural Activity Centre (CAC), went to the top of the tower - the one that you can see the river as if it running right under it. We even saw some students were kayaking on the river!

Finally, we ended our little tour in CAC's garden... 

For this assignment, we were required to choose either one-point or two-points perspective view. Me and another classmate chose the same spot, which is...

Looking at this, I'm planning on not to draw this view according to the original view which mean, I probably going to edit few things that I don't want to appear in my drawing later...

When the time's up, I was only done with the lines sketch and same goes to some of my classmates which is why most of us we'll be coming back to this garden this Saturday, all with the same purpose - to finish our drawings.

Other than tired after walking for quite a long way just now, I'm still feeling slightly disgusted with what I found in the tower earlier today. Believe me, you guys don't want to know.

Anyway, I'll see you guys in the part II of this entry...


Warm regards,

Campus Tour Series #1

So we finished IBE class a little bit early today so I decided to go around E0 building. The reason to do this? I need some materials for my sketchbook.

I think E0 is where most of the Engineering Faculty's administration offices are located. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the pictures!

One of the hallways... 

Compare to other Kulliyyah i.e. faculties, I love KoE's fences the most.

Across this path is Cultural Activity Centre (CAC)...

As for the last 2 photos, these were actually taken from the bridge that's connecting KoE and KAED. 

That my friends, is KAED. Well, from the back. I couldn't spot Jeremy from up here though. 

Okay! That's all! Next stop? Well, let's just wait and see. 

Signing out!

GC: Assignment #9... Part I

It's almost 2 and currently I'm sitting in front of this... Can You guys guess where is this?

So... after trying to get the rough sketches like 2 to 3 times... and shivering as if I got pneumonia or something (it was raining, man!) I finished up the lines and I'm going to decide on what medium I'm going to use on the drawing later...

Well, most probably watercolour pencils... Or maybe watercolour... 

Alright, that's all for now! Need to get up and go back to KAED for IBE class! 

Chill out, peeps!

Regards, 

E

GC: Exercise #6

As for today, we learned about two points perspective drawing some more as the lecturer gave out some more examples.

After that, we went outside the studio to find places with this element and ended up in Kulliyyah of Engineering's garden in the E0 building.

For this exercise, we're required to sketch using pens i.e. pigment pens...

...and this is it!

Of course, this isn't finish yet as we couldn't stay longer as it was starting to rain. Which also means we finished class earlier than usual.. weeee~!!

The assignment that is to be submitted on Thursday is we need to find another place with the same element of perspective but draw it this time. I'm thinking to just use the same garden but draw other thing instead... I'll post about it later!


Anyways, do tell me what you guys think!


Regards,

GC: Assignment #8 Part I

The thing is, I already submitted a one-point perspective drawing of my mahallah's i.e. hostel's middle area and it seems to me the final drawing isn't really good. Therefore, I decided to go and look some of the potential I supposed we could say material for me to draw and while walking around the campus, I saw this.

You know that kinda feeling of seeing something for the first time even though it's been there since forever but you just never notice it?

Okay, I guess this makes the first candidate... 

I'll post some more later on... 

New Weapons

...Kidding! As you guys all know, I'm doing this heaven subject, Graphic Communications... Therefore, when my parents came all the way from Sabah due to some reasons previous weekend, I took them to the Neu Weststar Art Shop, located at Jalan Bandar Melawati Square,  Taman Melawati, KL to buy all the stuffs I need for this subject.

Throughout this entry, I'm going to show you guys some stuffs that I bought at the shop and some that I bought earlier so you guys can make this entry as KAEDian Starter Kit list or something...

First, let's go to the paper sections. I bought few sketchbooks... Well, bought like 6 or something as only 18 sheets per sketchbook...

Next, to the 'weapons' section...

Three T-Squares (35cm - easier to use for A4 sized papers, 60cm - for A3 and A2 papers, the 108cm - for drafting tables in the studio later), and Faber-Castell's Adjustable Set Square. I bought the Maped Compass Set, the 360º protractor, drafting brushes, Rotring Squares sets, Rotring French Curves when I was in Sabah.

Next, to the pens and pencils section...

Faber-Castell's Ecco Pigment pens (ranging from 0.1mm to 0.8mm) and Castell 9000 pencils (12 grades, ranging from 8B to HB, F, H and 2H). If you buy these pencils separately, the cheapest would be RM1.0 but if you buy this set at RM12.80, you'll get eraser and sharpener for free. The pronto eraser is awesome especially when you need to erase small area - erasing shield works too so I'm planning to get it later. 

By the way, I grew up with Faber-Castell's pens and pencils so... 

Next, is the best part of all... The colours section... 

In the shop I bought Prismacolor markers in 8 colors as other required colors are not in stock so I have to wait until early next month, Artist's Alpha Water Colors - with the brushes and palettes, and Faber-Castell's Watercolour Pencils. I bought Faber-Castell's Colour pens yesterday at Dar Al Kutub in Azman Hashim Building and as for the 20 Stabilo Pigment pens, I have them since school and just replace those that already ran out of ink with the new ones as they can be bought separately... These pens are awesome especially during the brainstorming sessions... 

and... Not forgetting this one... 

Poster colours... 

I guess that's all for now... I did bought some other stuffs but I'm going to post them later... 

Signing out, 

E