23/9/2024 - 7/11/2024 : (Week 1- Week 7)
Ting Wen Yi / 0361799
Environment Design/Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Fundamentals - Exercise
INSTRCTIONS
You are tasked with series of multiple exercises as listed below and are required to complete it within 10 weeks of learning and adapting to the fundamentals of Environment Design.
- Perspective drawings
- Composition
- Value painting
- Ambience
- Color management
- Vignette set design
- Photo bashing
Submission:
- Complete Exercise Sketchbook. Note that each progression to be drawn on 2000 X 3000 pixels 150 dpi 16:9 ratio landscape for weekly practice.
EXERCISE
Week 1 - Lost In Random Current Game Sketches (Value)
During the first week, we are to choose a theme, aka a game, to use for our project. I have chosen Lost in Random. Then I drew some existing game environment designs to study their compositions, depth, and style.
For this week's exercise, I just drew perspectives for both Digital Matte Painting and this module.
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Figure 2.1 One Point Perspective - Week 2 (5/10/2024)
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 | Figure 2.2 Two Point Perspective - Week 2 (5/10/2024)
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Figure 2.3 Three Point Perspective - Week 2 (5/10/2024)
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Figure 2.4 Four & Five Point Perspective - Week 2 (5/10/2024)
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Figure 2.5 One Point Perspective (Interior) - Week 2 (5/10/2024)
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Figure 2.6 Two Point Perspective (Interior) - Week 2 (5/10/2024)
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Week 3: Simple Shapes & Value Painting
This week, Mr. Kannan gave us an in-class activity where we were asked to draw any building starting from a simple shape, focusing on observing and capturing its perspective. I began by placing the basic shape and gradually built up the sketch by adding details to it.
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Figure 3.1 Simple Shapes - Week 3 (12/10/2024) |
Mr. Kannan also demonstrated how to do simple value painting. I sketched out the house, added some values to define the lighting and depth, and then applied colors on top of it.
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| Figure 3.2 Value Painting - Week 3 (12/10/2024) |
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Figure 3.3 Value Painting (Color) - Week 3 (12/10/2024)
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Week 4: Structure Sketching & Value Painting
I have explained the process of the structural design in
Project 1.
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| Figure 4.1 Building Refinements - Week 4 (19/10/2024) |
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| Figure 4.2 Perspective - Week 4 (19/10/2024) |
Week 5: Value Composition Studies
I created some rough sketches to determine which composition best suits the sloped hill and hotel building.
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Figure 5.1 Composition Sketches - Week 5 (27/10/2024)
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Figure 5.2 Composition Sketches - Week 5 (27/10/2024)
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Week 6: Value Sketches & Ambience Studies
To make progress, I chose composition number 5 and created two additional value sketches with a bit more detail to help me further visualize my ideas.
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Figure 6.1 Refined Composition 1 Sketch - Week 6 (3/11/2024)
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| Figure 6.2 Refined Composition 2 Sketch - Week 6 (3/11/2024) |
After I sketched my second composition, I realized that it can communicate as the two side buildings kind of lead the focal point to the middle, where I was going to place my main building. Then I picked the second composition and did my ambiance study.
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Figure 6.3 Ambience Studies - Week 6 (3/11/2024)
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Figure 6.4 Exercise Compilation - Week 6 (3/11/2024)
For the exercise, I learned to draw perspectives from different points, but sometimes my perspective was still off. There's definitely room for improvement in this area. Since we were working on both the exercise and Project 1 simultaneously, I ended up spending most of my time on Project 1 and neglected the exercises a bit. Although we were given the option to combine this module with Game Art, I decided to keep them separate to create a wider portfolio. However, I think this decision made things a bit more challenging, as I’m juggling five modules this semester, which has felt overwhelming at times.
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