Sketching is like a free writing job where you can simply put about any idea

that comes into your mind. It’s a good way to get your ideas on paper and a concrete

sample picture of what you want to relate on through your sketches. Sketches can

be some kind of brainstorming process where you can see roughly what the design

that you’re looking for are and to determine which one work well and which one does

not. According to Ryan Hembree, the author of The Complete Graphic Designer,

“Drawing is essential to solving design problems since ideas must be translated from

written form into images to communicate with the audience” (Hembree, 2008, pg. 50).

Sketching is something really important for me during my respective course because

the plan that you have in your brain does not always work for people unless you

project it out through your sketches to make proposal of it and to see clearly what will

succeed and will not. Furthermore, I did a sketch of my object where I express it

visible and what’s the whole process about, from identifying that item to how I

sketched it out.

On top of that, the chosen material for my kitchen utensil is kitchen tong.

Kitchen tong is basically two arms looking tool hinged or fastened together for

holding or lifting something. Normally kitchen tongs does not smell unless it’s

contaminated or sometimes plastic tongs will smell like plastic and wooden tongs will

smell like trees. Kitchen tongs sometimes produce a “clip” sound when you use it to

hold things it’s because the two arms top end touch each other causing frictions to it.

Tongs are tasteless and uneatable. Whereas, by touching a kitchen tong, it’s a hard

and long object. Tongs are use in many ways for our daily life such as for serving the

foods onto the plates, tongs are fabulous for cooking by using it to turn sausages

and meats on the barbecue, tongs are also used to pick up hot items in boiling water

and also to lift items like the hop, some of us uses tongs to reach out for boxes and

packets from the back of the cupboard that are hard to get, giving some extensions

for people that has shorter arms. The reason I have chosen the kitchen tong is that it

helps me in many ways when I’m cooking, it helps me from plating out my

masterpiece prettily to lending me add-on longer hand to reach out to my ingredient

that I needed.

What’s more, how did I get my sketching ready? Firstly, the tools that are

needed to get my masterpiece going are A4 paper, pencils for shading and drawing

purpose simply, the H means hard and B means black. H pencils, because they are

hard, leave less graphite on the paper, so are lighter. B pencils are softer, so leave

more graphite on the paper, and so are darker. Eraser is the second most important

thing that is needed. Tissue papers are optional if you don’t want to get your fingers

dirty. I kick start by cleaning the whole table, giving me a space with a peace of mind

so that that aura comes in for me to produce a good artwork.

Additionally, I took a 2B pencil to rapidly sketch out the shape of a kitchen

tong looks like in my brain. Besides the imaginary part, I added details on how a real

kitchen tong appears like by referring to pictures from the internet. When am done

with the bones of it, I took the HB pencil for a lighter shades inside it, ended with 3B

pencil to darken the sides to give some shadow effect to it. I also did use some

tissue paper to pat on for blending in of a darker to lighter result. Last but not less, an

eraser to make everything looks neat and clean, to rub on the extra lines and

shading that are unnecessary. Nothing is perfect, mistakes comes so I did what I had

to do to correct it by adding more shades or erase it off and try an error to make it

work.

The duration for me to get all the sketching done is around two hours, it

wasn’t as easy as it seems. To take this long is because I don’t usually sketch thing

often I only sketch when I needed to for assignments. When it was fully completed I

literally throw my pencils away and shouted, it feels great to see your hard work paid

off and your happy with it. I would definitely do it again to see how Rome wasn’t built

in a day.

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: ADELE LU KHAI SYN

STUDENT ID NO: 0323151

WORD COUNT: 787

ENGLISH 1 (ELG 30505)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: PROCESS ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 11th MAY 2015

Sketching is where you can simply put about any idea that comes into your

mind. It’s a good way to get your ideas on paper and a concrete sample picture of

what you want to relate on through your sketches. Sketches can be some kind of

brainstorming process where you can see roughly what the design that you’re

looking for are and to determine which one work well and which one does not.

According to Ryan Hembree, the author of The Complete Graphic Designer,

“Drawing is essential to solving design problems since ideas must be translated from

written form into images to communicate with the audience” (Hembree, 2008, pg. 50).

Sketching is something really important for me during my respective course because

the plan that you have in your brain does not always work for people unless you

project it out through your sketches to make proposal of it and to see clearly what will

succeed and what will not. Furthermore, I did a sketch of my object where I express

it visibly and also what’s the whole process are about, from identifying that item to

how I sketched it out.

On top of that, the chosen material for my kitchen utensil is kitchen tong.

Kitchen tong is basically two arms looking tool hinged or fastened together for

holding or lifting something. Normally kitchen tongs does not smell unless it’s

contaminated but sometimes plastic tongs will smell like plastic and wooden tongs

will smell like trees. Kitchen tongs will produce a “clip” sound when you use it to hold

things it’s because the two arms top end touches each other causing frictions to it.

Tongs are tasteless and uneatable. Whereas, by touching a kitchen tong, it’s a hard

object. Tongs are use in many ways for our daily life such as, serving the foods onto

the plates, tongs are fabulous for cooking by using it to turn sausages and meats on

the barbecue, tongs are also used to pick up hot items in boiling water and to lift

items like the hop, adding on, some of us uses tongs to reach out for boxes and

packets from the back of the cupboard that are too far away, giving some extensions

for people that has shorter arms. The reason I have chosen the kitchen tong is that it

helps me in many ways when I’m cooking, it helps me from plating out my

masterpiece prettily to lending me an add-on longer hand to reach out to my

ingredient that I needed.

What’s more, how did I get my sketch ready? Firstly, the tools that are needed

to get my masterpiece going are A4 papers, pencils for shading and drawing

purposes, simply, the H means hard and B means black. H pencils, because they

are hard, leave less graphite on the paper, so are lighter. B pencils are softer, so

leave more graphite on the paper, and so are darker. Eraser is the second most

important thing that is needed. Tissue papers are optional if you don’t want to get

your fingers dirty. I kick start by cleaning the whole table, giving me a space with a

peace of mind so that that aura comes in for me to produce a good artwork.

Additionally, I took a 2B pencil to rapidly sketch out the shape of a kitchen

tong that is visionary in my brain. Besides the imaginary part, I added details on how

a real kitchen tong appears like by referring to pictures from the internet. When am

done with the bones of it, I took the HB pencil for a lighter shades inside it, ended

with 3B pencil to darken the sides to give some shadow effect to it. I also did use

some tissue paper to pat on the paper for blending in of a darker to lighter result.

Last but not less, an eraser to make everything looks neat and clean, to rub on the

extra lines and also the shading that are unnecessary. Nothing is perfect, mistakes

come so I did what I had to do to correct it by adding more shades or erase it off and

try an error to make it work.

The duration for me to get all the sketching done is around two hours, it

wasn’t as easy as it seems. To take this long is because I don’t usually sketch thing

that often, I only do sketches when I needed to for assignments use. When it was

fully completed I literally threw my pencils all away and shouted, it feels great to see

your hard work paid off and your happy with it. I would definitely do it again to see

how Rome wasn’t built in a day.