SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: KYLA ELLANA BINTI NAZRIN DIEGO

STUDENT ID NO: 0322409

WORD COUNT: 757 WORDS

ENGLISH 1 (ELG 30505)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: PROCESS ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 11th MAY 2015

How to Sketch a Ladle.

Sketching can be defined as making a rough drawing of something or a freehand

drawing by using a dry art material such as charcoal, pen, pencil and pastel. It

can also be defined as giving a brief idea or description out from something.

Sketching is very useful and important for this course that I am taking, namely

Foundation in Natural and Built Environments and later use for further studies

that I will take after this foundation. As far as I know, Architecture needs a lot of

sketches and drawings. Unless you were born with gifted hands and creative

mind, sketching needs time to make it as perfect as you want it to be. In

conclusion, with the help of sketching, I would draw for my assignments with

ease. My process essay is about producing an attractive sketch of my kitchen

utensils.

The kitchen Utensil that I chose is ladle. It was few years ago when my mother

bought herself a ladle somewhere in Kota Kinabalu and the day I moved in Kuala

Lumpur was the day she brought the ladle for my brother and I in our new

humble rented house in Sunway Court Apartment. It is 29 centimeter long and

the color of the scoop is black with silvered stainless steel holder. Undoubtedly,

the ladle smells and taste funny like plastic with lime soap as the soap came

fresh from the lime dishwasher liquid. The holder is hard but the scoop is

breakable. Despite the age of the ladle, the surface is not smooth and there are

few scratches around it. We use ladle most of our time. For instance, we use

ladle to make our daily meal, namely breakfast, lunch and dinner. Furthermore,

we also could use them in different ways such as stirring your hot soup, scoop a

scoop of your soup, making a musical beat from it and even better, we could also

use them as a weapon to hit robbers for self defense. I chose ladle because it is

light and easy to sketch.

Before I began to start sketching the ladle, it is important to clear the messy

things off the table so it would be easier for me to concentrate on sketching the

ladle. The things I need to sketch the ladle were eraser, ruler, an A4 sized plain

white paper, mechanical pencil with 0.5 lead and of course a 2B pencil to get that

darker shading for the sketch. I prepared some tissues too to get that best

shading effect from the pencil.

I placed my plain white paper on the desk and took out my 2B pencil off the table

where I organized the things I need for my ladle sketching. Gently without

pressing too hard and made a vertical of two straight lines with the length of 14

centimeter on the paper. The straight lines are not far apart nor it is too near from

each other. Approximately about 1.5 centimeter away from each other. Then I

connected the both lines and made a rectangle out of it. The most frustrating part

of the sketch was when I was doing the shape of the scoop for the ladle. The

halved sphere shaped part of the ladle. It was very hard for me to drew that part

as I had so many mistakes done during that part. After so many mistakes of

trying to draw a perfect shape, I still have not gotten the perfect shape. But the

shape I got is acceptable so I guess it should be okay. Obviously, I have made

the imperfect halved sphere shape of the ladle and on the other end of the

rectangle, I connected it again with an arc. Here comes the fun part of sketching

which is shading. Shading is the most important and the final step of sketching. It

makes your drawing looks slightly realistic and artistic. Especially when you are

on average rate of good in sketching like me. Consequently, I began to shade

them according to it’s lighting as it is also the final step of sketching.

Sketching the ladle took me specifically about 40 minutes. Honestly, it was not so

bad sketching it. I actually quite like it and of course I felt happy and beyond

relieved after finally finishing the sketch. My sketching may not turn out to be

what I want it to be but I am sure that it is acceptable. If you ask me if I would

sketch again, I would say why not?