Hi guys,
I'd just like to share a few drawings of tanks that I made quite sometime ago. These drawings were in fact teaching/example materials for my college students. I am teaching part-time at a local college (under architecture program).
FYI, new college students are required to undergo two technical drawing classes before moving on to intermediate level (computer based).
I found out that quite many students had problems and struggled to understand the drawing fundamentals, especially in the subjects that require them to manually draw object in 2 planes, in 3 planes, and the (dreadful) perspective.
Instead of using (boring) simple model building blocks to illustrate various types projection drawings, I used tanks (since they are composites of blocky objects anyway) as example. To my surprise, the "tank approach" worked and piqued the students' interest in the subject. So many questions were asked during class in session. Interestingly, some students even asked about the tanks armament, capabilities, and all. hahaha. At one point, the students were so eager and wanted to drawing more complex subject, like cars, helicopters, robots, etc hahaha. They literally forgotten about architecture. Boys will be boys, I suppose.
Anyway, here are few teaching material drawings I've made and shown to my students in drawing classes (I guess I'll continue to draw them, so long the students are eager and excited to learn drawing). In addition, the projection drawing process were documented in youtube videos so (future) students could access them when and where needed. You may have noted that the video viewership is pretty appalling, as the videos were intended for my students in the first place and I didn't really go all-out promote the videos. So, no problem there at all.
*If this new thread isn't appropriate in any way, I will gladly remove it per the request of the forum moderator(s).
Anyway, here are the drawings that I'd like to share with fellow forummers on scale-models.co.uk, and the drawing process video at the end of this post.
I'd just like to share a few drawings of tanks that I made quite sometime ago. These drawings were in fact teaching/example materials for my college students. I am teaching part-time at a local college (under architecture program).
FYI, new college students are required to undergo two technical drawing classes before moving on to intermediate level (computer based).
I found out that quite many students had problems and struggled to understand the drawing fundamentals, especially in the subjects that require them to manually draw object in 2 planes, in 3 planes, and the (dreadful) perspective.
Instead of using (boring) simple model building blocks to illustrate various types projection drawings, I used tanks (since they are composites of blocky objects anyway) as example. To my surprise, the "tank approach" worked and piqued the students' interest in the subject. So many questions were asked during class in session. Interestingly, some students even asked about the tanks armament, capabilities, and all. hahaha. At one point, the students were so eager and wanted to drawing more complex subject, like cars, helicopters, robots, etc hahaha. They literally forgotten about architecture. Boys will be boys, I suppose.
Anyway, here are few teaching material drawings I've made and shown to my students in drawing classes (I guess I'll continue to draw them, so long the students are eager and excited to learn drawing). In addition, the projection drawing process were documented in youtube videos so (future) students could access them when and where needed. You may have noted that the video viewership is pretty appalling, as the videos were intended for my students in the first place and I didn't really go all-out promote the videos. So, no problem there at all.
*If this new thread isn't appropriate in any way, I will gladly remove it per the request of the forum moderator(s).
Anyway, here are the drawings that I'd like to share with fellow forummers on scale-models.co.uk, and the drawing process video at the end of this post.
