Yesterday, Monday august 22, I had my first architectural drawing class. It was super fun, we did blind contour sketching. The professor was teaching us about lines and to develop hand-eye communication, because apparently we couldn’t look at what we were sketching! The point of the activity was to fix your eyes on the object you were drawing and without separating your pencil from the paper (or looking at your paper) you and sketch a figure with depth. It was extremely relaxing.
At first we sketch a lose piece of paper that we wrinkled, then I sketched my hand AND THEN… WE SKETCHED OUR PARTNERS! (That we didn’t know yet ...) THAT… was extremely funny. The professor had us starring at a person that had to be staring at us back! PLUS we couldn’t move cause the other person was sketching us! Or at least trying to! J
Very, very fun, I will try to upload the sketches so you can laugh for a while. I learned about different types of lines and pencils width and softness. I used 5 pencils: 2H, H, F, 3B, 6B (listed from harder and thinner point to thicker and softer point)
Now I’ll tell you about my adventure in which I had to drive by myself from Davie road, BC Central Campus, all the way to Oakland Park Way then go down on the N Federal Highway to a store called Utrecht (not the city in Netherlands but an art store here in FL J ) … AND THEN SOUTH TO Las Olas Blvd to BC Downtown Campus!
I have to say that I did a good job in not getting lost J I made it to the store and 30 min early to class. Mission accomplished J
BUT NOW…
I had 30 min to waste … so I was talking to Daniel and remembered about the architecture club that BC offered… so I looked for the professor that was in charge of the club but he was nowhere to be found… until I went in my class and HELLO! The professor in charge of the club was in MY CLASS! What? He was there to tell us about the club AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) , it sounded very cool because it offers contacts for future jobs or internships, and it tells you about different university programs and they help you transfer with ease to a university.
https://www.aias.org/custom/memberapp.asp?id=310
BUT it costs $60 a year, let’s see what my parents say…
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