Fluid Thoughts To Action

WORKSHOP THREE
FLUID THOUGHTS TO ACTION
with Anton and Chrissie


In this workshop, we challenged ourselves to draw objects with more fluidity to create a sence spatiality, but also at the same time, keeping important detail and linework, all this done using mostly of charcoal.

The first exercise we did was to draw the Sydney Opera House.

The above two drawings were actually my first ever attempts at using charcoal. I was quick amazed by the softness of charcoal, and the ability to smudge as well as to erase . In this very first lesson, not only did I learn to use charcoal, I also attempted to protrude another view of the Opera House on top of an existing drawins. This done by more drawing, as well as the erasing and taking back of exisiting charcoal work.

The second task was similar to the Opera House task. Drawing, changing views, and adding onto it.

This next task, was at first, very unfamiliar and unusual. I had drawn a landscape at first, but had not managed to focus on a small part of the landscape and then enlarge it to cover a mass of the page. I did however, re-did the drawing with more focus, and had managed (to what i think) fulfilled the requirements of that task.

This drawing was my interpretation of an architectural space as described by a fellow architect student. The discription in general, pointed out a room with no windows, a large table taking over most of the space, with modern chairs and a 19th Centery Chandelier with beads hanging over it.

The following are selected drawings of the 42 that I did in my sketch book of different interior and exterior spaces, during daytime and night time.

Compared to the other workshops, I actually found 'Fluid thoughts to actions' the most amusing, interesting and enjoyable workshop. I had never used charcoal before this workshop, and I had never know that charcoal can actually produce such a wide variety of presentations. Although I tend to do drawings with not much line work but with more shading and rendering, I was amazed at the amount of precision that charcoal can do, by other students. I have indeed learned alot from this workshop and I would acknowledge that although charcoal is not a popular medium for conventional architecture, it is the way that we applied ourselves in drawing with a whole new perspective (such as with drawing with fluidity) that would allows us to broaden our abilities in drawing for future presentations.