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Module 4 - Freehand Drawing (Patterns)

This document provides information on freehand drawing and sketching techniques. It discusses the importance of preliminary sketches for designers to organize ideas. It also lists and describes common drawing tools such as pencils, rulers, protractors, and French curves. Proper care and maintenance of tools is emphasized. The document outlines basic line types including horizontal, vertical, inclined, and curved lines. It explains the use of shading to represent light, medium, and dark values on surfaces.

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Module 4 - Freehand Drawing (Patterns)

This document provides information on freehand drawing and sketching techniques. It discusses the importance of preliminary sketches for designers to organize ideas. It also lists and describes common drawing tools such as pencils, rulers, protractors, and French curves. Proper care and maintenance of tools is emphasized. The document outlines basic line types including horizontal, vertical, inclined, and curved lines. It explains the use of shading to represent light, medium, and dark values on surfaces.

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Module 4: Freehand Drawing (Patterns)

Drawing Principles Freehand and Sketching

Freehand sketches are of great assistance to the designers in organizing their


thought and recording their ideas. They are effective and economical means of
formulating various solutions to a given problem so that a choice can be made between
them at the outset. Often, much time can be made between them at the outset. Much
time can be lost if the designer starts his scaled layout before adequate preliminary
study with the aid of sketches. Information concerning changes design, covering
replacement of broken parts or lost drawing, is usually conveyed through sketches.

Recall of Drawing Tools, Equipment, and Materials

1. Drawing Paper- is manufactured in four colors, namely: white, cream, light


green and buff. It comes in different sizes of various sheet thickness.

2. Ruler- is used for marking out distances as well as for measuring purposes.
3. Pencil- is manufactured in various grades of hardness ranging from 7H which is
very soft up to 9H. The lead of pencil is a mixture graphite, clay and wax. The
clay makes the lead hard. The harder the pencil is, the lighter the line is
produced.

4. Drawing Table– may refer to any ordinary table found in a school shop or in the
home with convenient height that will make you comfortable while working. Its
main purpose is to provide you a place where you can fasten your paper.
5. Drawing Board- is necessary if no drawing bench is available. The common size
of drawing board is 45.71 cm X 61 cm.

6. T-square- is an instrument used for drawing horizontal lines. It also supports the
triangle for vertical or sloping line drawing.
7. Triangle- is used to draw both vertical and oblique lines. It is the 45- degree
triangle and the 30-60-degree triangle.

8. Drawing Tape- is used before any drawing activity is to be started. The drawing
paper has to be fastened on the drawing board. The acceptable method of
fastening is with the use of tape.
9. Eraser – has two kinds: the red rubber and the yellow art gum. of the two
kinds of eraser the yellow art gum is better to use for it correct errors easily and
removes unwanted lines.

10. Protractor- is used to lay out angles. It is made of transparent plastic and a half
circle shape. It has two scales: the outside scale which is from zero to 180
degrees going to the left and the inside scale which is the opposite.

11. Compass- is an instrument for drawing arcs and circles. The common kinds of
compass are the pencil compass and the drawing compass. The pencil
compass has an opening for the pencil while the drawing compass has a piece
of lead fitted intone of its leg.
12. French curve – is an instrument for drawing irregular curves other than arcs
and circles.

13. Divider- is used for dividing lines or distances into equal parts.

14. Scale- is used for measuring and for scaling process.


Proper Care and Maintenance of Drawing Tools and Instruments

1. Keep your instruments and equipment clean.


2. Wipe the pencil point with a piece of cotton and not your finger.
3. keep your drawing tools and instruments in proper places before and after using.

Basic consideration in freehand sketches

It is necessary to expose the learner in the different line exercises as basic


activities in freehand sketches. The following are the forms of lines:

1. Horizontal line. It is a line parallel to the horizon or a line that form 180 deg. It is
drawn from left to right.

2. Vertical line. Is a line that can be obtained by suspending plumb and this line
form 90 degrees from the horizontal line? It is drawn from top to bottom.

3. Inclined line. It is neither horizontal nor vertical line.


4. Curve line. A line produced by a circular movement.

Importance of Shading in freehand drawing and sketches

1. Shading is the process of making the visible surfaces of an object. It is applied in


a variety of tones or values.

The following are the tones or values of shading:

1. Light Values. This represents the surface which receives the greatest amount of
light.
2. The Medium Values. This represents the surface which receives less amount of
light.
3. Dark Values. This represents the surface very little amount of light.

In shading application, the source of light is assumed to be coming from the upper
left-hand corner of the drawing paper and rays of light are imagined to be inclining at an
angle of 45 degrees.

Techniques in Shading Application

1. Apply the lightest shading on the part of a surface which receives more light.

2. Shade the portion of a surface which receives less light with medium values.

3. Shade the portion of a surface which receives little amount of light with a heavy
shade.

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