Process essay by Low Wing Chun FNBE March 2015

1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: LOWWING CHUN
STUDENT ID NO: 0323315
WORD COUNT: 686
ENGLISH 1 (ELG 30505)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: PROCESS ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSIONDATE: 11th
MAY2015

2. Pre-Writing
Introduction:
- Definition of sketching
- Important for architect
- About the steps involved in producing an attractive sketch (kitchen utensils)
2nd Paragraph:
- Wooden rice scoop
- See : brown colour with wood texture
- Touch : smooth, polished
- Taste : tasteless
- Smell : odourless
- Hear : Mom nagging
- I like the smooth texture, prefer wooden ones over stainless steel
3rd Paragraph:
- Mechanical pencils for drawing
- 2B pencil for shading
- Eraser
- My hands to achieve balance
- The messy workspace did not bother me
4th Paragraph:
- Inspired by filter
- Instagram
- Mistakes corrected
Conclusion:
- About an hour
- Good but unsatisfied
- I would do it again

3. Steps involved in producing an attractive sketch (kitchen utensils)
A sketch is a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a
preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details. It is often used by
an artist or a designer to record down what they see. It is also a way for the artist to
turn their imagination into reality. Sketching is important to architects as it allows the
architect to generate more ideas and communicate to the clients about it. A sketch is
frequently used as it does not require a lot of complicated steps and you don’t have
to be Picasso to do a sketch. All you need is your imagination and some simple
drawing skills then, voila! There you have it. I was given a task to draw a kitchen
utensil sketch, and I am about to share with you of this journey of mine in producing
this attractive sketch.
First of all, I have almost zero knowledge about the kitchen utensils as I have never
in my life cooked an actual meal before. Except if frying an egg counts. I thought it
would be difficult for me to choose one but surprisingly, I had my eyes on the kitchen
utensil I want for the first five seconds I stepped into the kitchen. It is the smooth
looking wooden rice scoop. I was required to use all my five senses on the kitchen
utensil so I will explain to you about the experience. It was brown in colour with
wooden texture, smooth as it was polished, totally tasteless because it was cleaned
after being used every time, definitely odourless and the only thing that can be heard
from is my mother nagging at me not to damage it. The purpose of the wooden rice
scoop is to scoop rice. Yes it is that simple. But my mother uses it as a soup paddle
sometimes. As for the reason why I chose it is because every utensil in the kitchen is
made from steel and the colour silver looks really boring to me. This wooden rice
scoop gave me a feeling of being closer to the nature.
After deciding and thinking it through, I proceeded to start on my sketching. The
outlines of the sketch were drawn with a mechanical pencil while the shadings were
done with a 2B pencil. The one I used for my form 5 SPM papers. It was not that
difficult as it was all done free handed not because I was lazy, but because I prefer
sketching it free hand. My workspace was terribly messy when I started my sketch
but it did not affect the work progress as it is always this untidy. The sketch was
done is less than forty minutes and I would not say it was easy.
To make my sketch looks more appealing, I spent another fifteen minutes staring at
it wondering how to improve it, and then, I gave up. While I was scrolling through
Instagram, a picture caught my attention. It was taken with a cartoon filter which
makes the picture looks as if it was a sketch. I did the same and I was able to shade
my sketch patently. There were mistakes made during the process. But it was okay
all thanks to my Faber-Castel eraser. Several attempts later my sketch was all neat
and done.
In a nutshell, sketching can be done quick and easily without any complicated
steps. But in my case, it actually took me an hour to finish it because during the
process I had numerous breaks for snacks and social media which I would like to
avoid doing it again for of my assignments in the future. I have to say I was slightly
disappointed with the sketch as it was not as good as I expected it to be but I do feel

4. successful and satisfied. Even though I had a hard time maintaining my focus, but I
managed to accomplish what I started. If I were given a chance to redo such
interesting task and have such experience, I would honestly choose to do it again as
I really love drawing.