Category: Assignment 05

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A5- Using Our Hands

Katie Hunks

In Class Assignment: Draw an object based on observations made without sight

Examining the sound and feel of a camera-shaped piggy bank

Drawing a Mystery Object Based on Touch

Conveying the endless feel of the wire without being able to see the end
Representing the texture and feel of the object
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A5: Using Our Hands

Berend Kessler

in class…blind awareness
in class…utility knife drawn blind
cat brush observed blind
brush analysis
brush analysis cont’d
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A5 | Using Our Hands | Yette Gram

In class exercises

In class sketches of a mug, highlighting the parts that are most noticeable to touch.

Assignment

The following two sketches were of objects placed in a box, and chosen blindly. I selected an object, explored it by touch, and then returned it to the box before opening my eyes and beginning to draw. I recognized the first object (a portable speaker) for what it was immediately, but the second remained a mystery until after I had completed the drawing (the metal insert for the nose piece of a mask).

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A5 | Kathryn Pierre

Tactile observations of my mystery object, which turned out to be my roommate’s night serum for her face.

My in class object was chosen blindly by feeling around on my nightstand until I landed on an unfamiliar object, my sewing scissors.

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A5 | Using Your Hands | Noora

A wireless mouse usually serves a visual function, and was interesting to approach without vision.

Weight, hollowness, heat, sounds, textures, seams and moving parts became became more apparent. The ambidextrous design of the mouse was also apparent through touch when holding the mouse.

The shallow engraved labels and small blue light to indicate that the mouse was on were no longer legible, but still palpable through textures or heat.

Inferences about internal components could be made more readily without vision (e.g. the weight of batteries, the clicking of switches, the heat of wired components, etc.)
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Assignment 5 | Marissa Campbell

For this assignment I drew three different objects based on touch only, again with a blindfold during the drawing process, and finally with sight and the object in front of me. In all cases the series of drawings are distinctly different based on the information available and my attempt to convey it.

The seashell was the simplest of the 3 items drawn. The hollow cone shape fit perfectly over my thumb which helped me to imagine the relative scale of the form’s dimensions as I drew. In the final series, my sight helped me to capture more subtleties of the organic bumpy texture than what I could represent based on touch alone.
Object 2 was a mini cosmetics container. The smooth plastic was difficult to represent texturally. Instead I focused on the inside and outside aspects of this container, which holds a application brush that can’t be seen when the item is closed.
The third object was a hair clip with a spring. This was the most challenging due to the complexity of the form and the movement/sound of the spring. I caught myself trying to draw this from memory more than from touch. I would like to try this one again with more emphasis on the forces of the spring, which creates resistance when opened, and then snaps quickly closed. The accompanying sounds for each motion could also be integrated better to indicate that this is not a static object.

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