DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS

Times passed very quickly , unconsciously the week 10 in NAFA was coming . We all doing our collection and the final work for our 10 weeks lessons. This mean our first semester is about end. One month later we will start the first vacation and rest  for 1 month. Next week is our assessment week , we need to pass up all the things on next week. I am very enjoyed my drawing fundamentals lesson. My drawing fundamentals lecturer is Mr Chng Keng Beng . He live in Australia about 10 years like that then go back to Singapore and teaching in NAFA about 10 years. He had rich experience in drawing . I like his way of teaching us. He always show us how to draw a thing by method and skill that easy to learn very fast way. When we start drawing , he always go around our place and teach us which is wrong and which can get better .

Our first lesson is line. We were used a straw and ink to sketch a thing .Firstly, the lecturer put some plants in the middle of class .  We cut the straw in a sharp shape and used the sharp angle to draw the plants. Because this is the first time we draw by using the straw and without any outline of pencil ,it cant be erased . So we practice on a blank A4 paper first. The skill is did not draw the thing with the same thickness of line.  The line will be thick when it was near and at the same time the line will be thin when the thing we draw is very far.The line is contour drawing, developing contour drawing that relates object to its background.



The second lesson is the "Mark" .The mark is discovering the range of possible marks you can produce with drawing media. The 'Mark'  lesson is using the Chinese ink spread out and u must see something in the mark. The mark must be spread out but cant draw it by using writing brush at first. When you see something such as animals. Then you can add some black colour by using the writing brush and the white liquid paper will be your eraser. The 3rd and 4th lesson was the tonal value. We described the forms of objects through light and shade. We were used the different darkness pencil such as HB to 8B pencil to create different tonal. We started to draw the tonal value table to practice the different tonal value.The tonal value 2 lesson , we started to use the black A4 paper to create the different tonal value by using the white pastel. The another white A4 paper was using the charcoal to create the tonal value.

The 5th and 6th lesson were be texture. The lesson of texture 1,we used the frottage , impressing ,combined technique . We were printed the texture of the object around us by stick the paper on the object and start scrawl on the paper then it will formed a texture of the object.The other lesson of texture 1 was cut down the different tonal value newspapers or magazines and paste on our drawing.Besides, the perspective week we started to learn some 3D things. This is a method of depicting objects in the correct scale and relationship to each other this called linear perspective.The lecturer show us the very funny toy and some sculptured and teach us how to draw the objects by using the perspective method. The week 2 of perspective is drawing  the interior of  corridor NAFA .

Finally , the last lesson was coming . The last lesson was the very funny lesson , Human figure. The week 1 of human proportion of drawing head . We draw the five sense organ of the human and drawing self-potraiture .  The week 2 we draw the figure and poses of the human and the skeleton of whole humans body.

The lesson was end and this is just the beginning of our 3 years lesson in NAFA . I very enjoy this drawing fundamentals classes and I wish my drawing fundamentals assessment will be passed with flying colours. I very appreciate the lecturer who teach me and I will doing my best now and in the future .