ASSIGNMENT ONE::We are interested in the shirt for its proximity to the body, but also for its own architecture: the complexity and supple system of pleats, cuts, and seams that give it structure. Your difficulty will be to apply the sometimes crude tools of orthographic projection (plans, sections, elevations) to an object whose geometry seems to resist this sort of description. This studio plays with the relationship of structure to surface. ----Your weekend assignment will be to construct a precise analytical drawing on a single sheet of paper @ 1:1 scale. You will need to find a system for measuring the shirt; you cannot draw it by eye. Your challenge is to construct a representation of the shirt through the allographic method of diagramming. The more information on the drawing the more likely a person would be able to construct the shirt from your drawing. Print this no larger than 24in x 24in.
You need to draw AT LEAST TWO views of the shirt: front elevation, back elevation, side elevation of the shirt worn, folded, ect. It is important how you want to present the shirt. You are to learn about the construction of the shirt by making a map of its surface. Use your guiding lines to reference to each view of the shirt, describing through lines the relationships between each elevation and or section. What new information can you include in your diagram that would not be evident upon the simple viewing of the shirt? Refer to the last three drawings of today's presentation.
Rules for drawing::
1::Transfer all drawings to Illustrator.
2::Build the drawing with construction lines.
3::Construction lines should be very light and typically a medium gray. In Illustrator the lines would be .0001 inches or .001 point for your stroke option. You need to experiment and print as you go.
4::Never use a line over 1 point as your stroke weight, these drawings need to be light because you are representing an object composed of fabric.
5::Always draw like you are making a finished product.
You also need to draw THREE details of the shirts’ structure. These details are section details and you may include a small reference plan as well. I want to see architecture in these drawings. When drawing a detail section through the shirt or its surface explode the fabric and its construction (look at the diagram at the beginning of this post). This section is through the placard of the shirt. Draw the surface as an orthographic projection. In the beginning of this shirt investigation you need to visit the main library and research the history of the white formal shirt. You will need to know the difference between thread counts and weaves and how exactly your shirt was made. Some of this information you might not find in a book or on the Internet, but you should do your own interpretation regardless.
The 24 x 24 sheet will need to composed and constructed with the three details either on the paper or on a different sheet that is also composed around the configuration of the shirt.
This is due at 8h30, be ready to pin up in room 501a at this time.
