Advanced 3D sketching
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can enhance sketches using tone to show depth and texture.
Key learning points
- Rendering helps to enhance communication of design ideas.
- Rendering can be used to show colour, materials and textures.
Keywords
Render - to add details like shading, texture, and depth to a sketch to make it appear more realistic
Tone - the lightness or darkness of an area, which helps create a sense of dimension in the image
Depth - the illusion of distance or three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Texture - how something feels or looks like it would feel, if touched
Common misconception
Rendering is just adding tone.
Rendering should consider tone and depth but also the texture of the material the product is made out of.
Teacher tip
It would be useful to have different material examples as well as a collection of objects to help when practising the rendering.
Equipment
pencil, rubber, ruler, pencil crayons
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Objects appear when they are further away.
Q2.What is meant by a perspective drawing?
Q3.When drawing in isometric or perspective, all vertical lines need to be __________.
Q4.What are construction lines?
Q5.What is the first stage of the crating technique when drawing a complex curved shape?
Q6.When a drawing is accurately sized and balanced, with all parts relating correctly to each other it is said to be ...
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.When is rendering carried out?
Q2.What is the light source in a 3D drawing?
Q3.What does adding tone to a sketch achieve?
Q4.This sketch has been rendered to show depth. Which direction is the light source coming from?
Q5.The sketch below has been rendered to represent which material?
Q6.Put the stages of rendering a cone in the correct order.
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