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FAO CGAA Year One - Object 'Inspiration' Sheets & Brief


CGAA First Years Summer Project - Please Read Carefully

You are challenged to produce 101 concept drawings on a single A1 sheet of paper. Using the objects (see sheet) as a starting point, you are to generate concept drawings in three categories; ‘structures’, ‘life-forms’, and ‘machines’. You should work in pen or pencil, and think of your drawings as thumbnails sketches or works-in-progress; work quickly, instinctively – you’re not trying to create perfect images, you’re trying to develop, innovate and refine your ideas; think laterally and don’t rub anything out, start over or throw anything away; you need to get used to visualizing your ideas promptly and without inhibition, as effective 2d visualization skills will be fundamental to your success on this course. You might consider extended drawings - using a selected object as ‘a seed’ from which new designs grow; you might try tracing, re-sizing, repeating, rotating, inverting and fusing objects as a method to work-up new and exciting concepts; another approach might be to treat the start-point objects as silhouettes before similarly extending or hybridizing them.

When you have finished your developmental drawings, you are to pick 3 (one structure, one life-form, one machine) and develop them further into resolved designs. Your final concepts should be presented individually on A2 sheets as turnarounds; i.e., that the subjects should be depicted from the front, back and side.


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  1. thank you very much, im still finding it a little difficult to understand EXACTLY what it's asking me to do... is there any examples of concept drawings of these objects or other objects from previous work that i could take a quick look at.
    i would really appreciate it
    thank you

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  2. Hey Chris - okay, I'm just going to throw this out there; look at that high heel shoe; if you were to put a tiny drawing of human figure beside it, then how quickly does it become some elegant architectural form - like some kind of huge cathedral, for instance; if you were to trace it, extend it, repeat the form etc. you'd be moving away from 'shoe' and towards 'structure' pretty damn fast... likewise, take a closer look at that art nouveau vase on the second sheet... you've seen Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, right? That isn't an art nouveau vase, it's a 'THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD' - what I want you to do is to get really good at seeing opportunities for amazing designs in the most ordinary of places; it's the secret of innovation, you see - just keep rotating the sheet, just keep looking until you can't see 'a pair of scissors' anymore, but rather some kick-arse futuristic vehicle...

    for some inspiration go here:

    http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html
    http://conceptships.blogspot.com/
    http://www.conceptart.org/
    http://beinart.org/

    You're being asked to generate concept sketches for stuff no one has seen before, but your starting point is the normal and the everyday: golden rule number 2; the real world has everything you need...

    Try and think about scale as a way to liberate your head from those 'ordinary objects' - make them massive, or human sized; try putting a horizon line in, and using it to bisect the object, so that only a fragment is 'above ground' - then work and develop the fragment; those objects are merely 'units of form and shape' to be reassembled and combined as you see fit - but, yes, I want you to work with them, and I want those 101 drawings to represent 101 brilliant ideas...

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  3. this makes it sooo much clearer. thank you so much !

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  4. Now it doesn't look so complicated as I thought.

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  5. "Using the objects (see sheet) as a starting point, you are to generate concept drawings in three categories; ‘structures’, ‘life-forms’, and ‘machines’"

    Does this mean that all the sketches have to be based or inspired on something? Would sketches that have not bee inspired by other works/inspiring objects etc be ok too? Its just that occasionally I'll be minding my own business, not thinking about anything when an idea comes out of the blue, taps me on the head and says "draw this" :)

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