Lesson video

Hello, my name's Mrs. Finlay and in today's lesson, we're going to look at modelling skills that you might use when you're coming up with your great design ideas.

So there's going to be lots of making today, lots of thinking about how we can develop our own ideas using those modelling skills.

So on the next slide, I'm going to show you some of the equipment that you need for today.

But before we do that, make sure you're somewhere quiet where you can concentrate, and somewhere with a nice clear space where you can work.

So this is the equipment that you are going to need today.

So the first thing is cardboard.

Now, all I've done is used cereal boxes, things like that, bits that I have around the home, that's absolutely fine.

You need a pen or pencil, this is for marking out, some scissors, some tape, if you haven't got tape, maybe glue, but tape would be great, and a ruler.

So gather those things up, pause the video, and then we'll move on.

So hopefully you've already done the intro quiz, but today we're also going to do a little modelling warmup so get that cardboard ready.

We're going to think about where our ideas come from and we're also going to then model and sketch out our own ideas, so I'm going to get you sketching, then modelling in 2D, and developing it to 3D.

And then as always, there's an exit quiz at the end of the lesson.

Let's look at today's key words.

So the first word I'm introducing you to is the word relief.

Now this is where you have a block and there's a sculpting technique where texture and a 3D effect is created within that one block, and that's called relief.

The second one we're going to look at is texture.

Now, we've talked about texture before when we've talked about aesthetics, but this is a surface decoration which gives depth to a flat surface.

And texture might be created by putting lots of pieces onto one flat, unlike relief, where it's from an actual block.

So we're going to look at creating texture in work today.

And then the last word we're going to learn is rendering.

And this is a method of applying colour and tone to 2D designs and make them appear more 3D to give your drawings layers.

So relief, texture, and rendering, these are our three words for today.

So here's our first modelling starter activity.

You are going to be making a normal, scaled version, so an absolutely same scale version, as my measuring tape.

You don't need a measuring tape at home or anything like that, and we're going to put together something that looks a bit like this.

Mine's a bit, been a bit bashed around at the moment.

Okay, so this is the time now to make sure your card and your rulers are ready to go.

Now, I'm going to take you through how to make it.

Some of you might want to watch the whole video, some of you might want to use your pause button and pause the video as I go through the different stages.

If you've been in the previous lesson, you will be used to some of the techniques but if you haven't, it's okay, I'm going to go over those as well.

So time for the modelling starter activity.

So we are going to model out this measuring tape as a bit of a modelling warmup, and we're going to use some of the techniques we've already used.

So essentially we are going to make two of these and we're going to make a piece to wrap around.

We're then going to cover it with paper and draw the details in.

Or you can add that with modelling if you want.

You don't need to have one of these measuring tapes at home, you can use my instructions.

So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to draw out a sort of shallow rectangle that is 70 mils high, and 80 mil wide.

We're going to create a curve and then we're going to create this sloped angle.

So we're going to use our cardboard, I'm going to leave those measurements up there so you can just see them.

We're going to use our cardboard, and as I said to you before, we need to use the straight edges and we need to use the corners.

We don't want to be cutting out in the middle of our cardboard because firstly, that's wasting materials, and also we can use this lovely straight edge to help us out in getting started.

So here I go, I'm going to draw my lovely straight line first.

I'm using pen so that you guys can see what I'm actually drawing, but normally I would suggest you use a pencil for drawing out.

So we're going to draw down through there like that so I've got my corner.

I'm now going to go 70 mils high.

Now, can you remember what is 70 mils in centimetres? That's right, seven, good.

So there we go.

70 mil high and I'm going to do a long straight line.

Now I'm going to need two of these, so I'm going to really extend that line out through, just move that out of the way, so I can get oopsie, two out of here, and then I'm going to measure 80 and 80 again.

Okay, and that's my two squares.

Sorry, rectangles, not squares.

So pop those together so they're like that.

Now I need to add the curve.

Okay, so this curve that's on this side, and to do that, I'm going to use the edge of my sellotape that I've got here.

You might have the edge of a mug or something like that that you can use.

Drawing round is going to be loads easier for you, just when it reaches those two corners, rather than trying to draw it yourself.

Then we want to create this slope.

All right, so I'm going to go down 10 mil and I'm going to go across 40 mil, and I'm going to mark that out on my rectangles.

So across 40 mil, so obviously four centimetres, and then I'm going to go down 10 millimetres, which is obviously one centimetre.

And this is the tricky bit done, I think.

The marking out is the most difficult.

All right.

Okay, then I would cut out both of those, but while we're here, I'm also going to use this piece at the side of my bit of cereal box because I need to create a wrap around my measuring tape, but I also need to allow for things on either side.

So I'm going to draw a line here.

I'm going to measure 25 millimetres, just 2.

5 centimetres.

And this is why a cereal box is really good to use.

You might want to remove the bag of cereal and take the box if you get short, but hopefully it's not been recycling day.

So here's my marking out here, so this is the bit that I'm going to bend and stick, and this is the bit that I'm going to use.

Okay? So I'm going to cut those out.

So this is our work cutout, and what we're going to do with this long piece, we're going to bend over the sides, and this is quite tricky with the grey card, so really sort of a top tip, what we did last time is to have the ruler across and then bend towards you.

Okay, don't worry if it beaks too much.

Bend towards you, and then we're going to bend it back 'cause we actually want it this way around so that when we make the model, it's the grey that's on the outside.

And then using your scissors, you can snip all the little flutes.

So snip, snip all the way down through just like we did on the previous models, so then you'll end up with something like this that will bend and be happy.

Okay so, what we're going to do now is we're going to add this and we're going to put it all the way round.

And I'm going to start about here so that we do the curve first and then we'll be left with some straight pieces.

So I'm going to show you how to do that.

Same as before, I'm going to use short little pieces of tape.

So put that on its tummy, spin that around, sort of starting in the middle, okay? I'm going to put the tape on there, bend the work around the corner like that so its bent around, then type it into place.

I'm just going to show you what that looks like.

So that looks like that.

Don't worry about that little gap for now.

Remember this is just a model.

So we're going to go along the straight, slight angle there, so I might just put a little piece of tape just to hold it down.

We'll get to the corner.

Going to give it a little fold.

Tape that bit down.

Okay, so you can see all the inside there all taped down nicely, and then we're going to go down the strait of this.

Just have a bit of a fiddle here.

Not quite got it flat.

There we go, there's better.

If you're using Pritt Stick, you might find that you want to make sure you're using a thinner piece of card.

Okay? Because it's going to be tricky to get it to glue a card like this, or you might just have to be a little bit more patient.

I'm just going to trim the bottom of this a little bit.

Okay, so I've stuck in one side of my tape.

So if I find my tape measure, here it is, and there is that bit, okay? So that's the side that that's as far as I've got.

My next job is to get this back on.

Now this is difficult.

And the best way I can suggest we do that, let's focus you down a bit.

There we go.

The best way we do that is that we already put some of our tape on the insides of here.

So we tuck the tape underneath like that and then you're going to push this onto it.

And the way I push the tape into the top is that I use something like a pencil or a pen in underneath.

So I'll just pop some of these on here.

There we go.

And I might just cut this little one off here so it's not a nuisance.

And then I'm going to fold in the folds, pop.

But that won't go all the way around yet.

Pop that on as best I can.

Spin it over.

And then using the back of my pen, I'm just going to, there we go, push in and around.

So I'm literally pushing in and around to make sure that tape is stuck in.

That's not too bad.

I've got a little bit of spring back but that's not too bad.

And then if you want to, you can always, these extra bits down here, I can always trim these bits.

Okay, a little bit tricky, but I think we're getting there.

Okay.

A little bit of a trim on here.

Now, you could leave it like this if you wanted to, but I think we can make a much better job of this.

So now what we're going to do is we're going to go back to our little model we had out of paper, and we're going to cut this from paper, and we're going to put it on the front.

But when we put it on the front, we are also going to add in some detail, and I'm going to show you how to do that next.

Okay, so what I've got here is I've done another strip that's going to be stuck and that's going to wrap around, and I've got a front and a back.

So, let's look at the detail I've put in.

So, let's do the front bit first.

So on the front bit, I have done the circle for the tag.

You might want to do it as your school, that's fine.

I've got some little dents in here and I've put these along the bottom.

I've also used that lovely technique of going around the outside because when you've got a model that you're modelling with white, it really brings it out, so let's just finish.

Yeah, okay, let's do it like this.

Okay, so I've put that on there, that's fine, and I can add a little bit of colour if I want to, but I'm not going to worry too much.

So that's the front, and then I have got the back.

Now on the back of this tape, it has got a little hook.

Now I could draw that in maybe, or you might want to take some, if you've got some leftover cardboard, I've got a little bit left over here, you might want to have a go at modelling this out even better.

So let's do it sort of the width.

And then it's going to go out and it's going to flip over here maybe.

Like that.

So I think it needs to be trimmed down a little bit and we just do a little slot in here.

Okay, so there we go.

So we can push that down, spin that up, it's a little bit fiddly.

How's that? Curved, and you can always curve it around a pencil, so I could stick that down and maybe a little bit of tape on there, but I tell you what I want to do just to make it look good, just going to do that bit where we draw around the outside just to show where the detail is.

Okay, my hands are a little bit shaky today.

That's okay.

So you've got some lines down through here we've missed and I'm going to go around this curve as well, and then I'm also, where it kicks out and in, draw a little, where the screw goes in there, and then we've got a little bit of a base to draw in as well.

There we go, so that can sit and stick on there.

So we're just going to put that together.

So.

Found my glue.

So I will, just about enough glue left in this glue stick, so I'm going to pop that on there, now I'm going to stick some glue on that bit.

And just slide that back in like that.

Okay, so that's sort of showing how that would go on like that.

I need to just then draw around the outside, which I'm happy to do.

I'm not so worried about getting it right on the edge actually, just a defined line makes a model look great.

Oops, there we go.

Okay, so let's have a look at getting this assembled.

So the first one I think I'm going to do is I'm going to glue these sides.

If you've only got tape, that's absolutely fine.

You can do that as well.

I'm running out of glue.

I always seem to do that at school.

I haven't gone round the edges with black on this, and actually, that might be something that I just very quickly do now.

And I'm not going to worry about sticking this on the bottom of my measuring tape either 'cause I think I might not have, I don't think the piece of card will be long enough for that, so I'm going to stick that in there, stick all around to the outside, stick down through there.

Might just have to hold it.

I'm going to, okay, give it a good push down on there.

And there's the edge.

Okay, that's the top and the edge done.

And now we're going to put the faces on.

So with this one, I'm going to glue that straight onto the face like that.

I'm going to use my little trick of sticking my pencil inside just so I can give it a little press.

Okay, there we go.

It's a bit wonky donkey actually.

I might need to straighten that up.

It's a good thing about glue, you've got wiggle time.

Flip it over.

This time I'm going to put the glue on here.

And I'm going to pop that one on.

Okay.

There we go.

It's our lovely little tape.

Now there's a couple more details we need to think about.

I do need to trim this up a little bit.

Okay, trim it up a little bit.

But I also, if we look at the ends, I need to add in a little bit of detail there.

So back to my scrappy pieces of paper, here we go, put a little bit here.

I can make, if I just check, you could draw it in yourself, or you can you can draw it in yourself just straight onto this or you could model it out.

So I'm going to model mine out, fold it in half, and we need to be able to attach it so I'm just going to fold it that way so it tabs.

And then that is going to go on here like that.

Now I'm slightly going to cheat because I'm going to tape it down because my glue seems to have given up, given up the ghost a little bit.

So a little bit of tape on there.

Little bit of tape on there.

Okay, so there's my tape.

I don't want to go to mental with it being all in my design, so I'm just going to trim it down.

There we go.

Holding it together.

Put that little bit of tape there and that bit on there.

Give it a bit of a squidge.

Yeah, I'm happy with that, that's okay.

And then you've got your tape in the end that needs to pull out.

So for that, you might want to create something that maybe, maybe we put something here.

Like that.

That's locked in maybe, I don't know.

Okay, cool.

We can stick that in later.

Okay.

And then we've got the actual tape.

It's my favourite bit.

So that can go on there with the tape coming out there.

Lovely.

But actually, I think we need to mark this tape up a little bit.

So what do we have on tape? We have millimetres.

So this is the end piece.

One, two, three, four, five.

One, two, three, four, 10.

There we go.

And we can pop that in and you can have a play with how you want to do this, and then send your teachers some of your great Martin tapes that you've put together.

And that's that.

Well done.

Modelling can be really good fun and I really enjoy creating models rather than sketching sometimes when I'm coming up with my ideas, but it can be very difficult to suddenly have all these materials in front of you and have to come up with design ideas, so actually having a little scale where we model something that already exists is really nice 'cause we can concentrate on our modelling skills.

So, well done.

I'm sure you did find it a little bit difficult, but I'm sure there's some wonderful, wonderful examples, and I'd love to see them.

We're going to move on now and we're going to flip right back to some sketching.

We're going to do a little bit of 2D modelling and then we're going to develop to a 3D outcome.

And obviously, this all needs to be done in super rapid, quick time, which is great because I don't want you to start thinking oh, this isn't very good or I can't think of any ideas.

So we're going to have a look at lampshades and we're going to start by coming up with some ideas for some textures.

Okay, so what we're going to do is I'm going to take you through the 2D designing part of this task.

Now there is a video that follows this page, so you could just watch all of this and then do the activity alongside the video, or you could use the pause breaks and do the task as I set them.

It's up to you.

Okay, so the first thing I'd like to do is I'd like you to draw out four squares on your paper.

Now I would do them about the size of your thumb, about the length of your thumb is absolutely fine.

They don't need to be very big.

So pause the video and do that.

Okay, next thing, I want you to draw in four different types of shapes.

They have to be different.

Now I know what you're going to say.

Oh, but the bottom two are straight lines.

They are, but one goes that way and one's slightly on the side, and that's okay.

So four different types of shapes, go.

And finally, we are going to do some rendering.

Okay, so we're going to add some colour to help bring texture into our work, and there's two of our key words from today, aren't they? Rendering and texture.

Now I'm going to show you how this in the video, but essentially, all you're doing is going dark around the outside of those little tears and then getting lighter and lighter with your pencil.

If you don't have coloured pencils at home it doesn't matter, you can use a normal pencil, it's fine.

Maybe just choose two to do rather than four because what you'll do is you'll create layers in your work and your work will look amazing.

So have a go at that and then we're going to play the video to show you how all of this comes together.

Okay, so we're going to draw in some samples of some different types of textures we could create, or we could model out.

And again, like with the room, this is a really great way of just coming up with some ideas super quick, and we're going to do it in 2D so nice and easy for you guys.

So one of my first ideas, maybe we'll have some diagonal lines.

And I'm not just going to leave it like that, I'm going to use my pen to create a lovely stick line, okay? Okay, I'm going to do that one, I'm going to pick out this one, make it nice and thick.

Okay.

And then this one here.

Then I've got something that's quite geometric and might have a go at doing something that is maybe a little bit rounder.

So like a tear drop, and if you find drawing super difficult maybe you might want to draw this out on your computer.