Exercise Title: Orthographic Animals
Purpose: Understand how orthographic projections are used to describe a three-dimensional object and further develop hand-drawn orthographic projection skills.

Prerequisite Exercise: Representation 1 - Orthographic Fruit
Suggested tutorials/lectures to complete prior to exercise: 

• Orthographic Projection Lecture
• Using Calipers

Exercise Description:
Orthographic projections are a primary design drawing skill used to:

• Create a first representation of a brainstormed idea
• Develop designs quickly before physical or digital prototyping
• Explore an existing design to understand its functionality
• Create drawings to communicate how to construct an object
• Clearly communicate a design idea in 2 dimensions
• Understanding orthographic views is also a foundational tool for designing 3D objects in CAD software.]

In this assignment you will practice extracting the Orthographic Projections from physical objects. By doing so you can train your mind and hands to represent a three dimensional object. As you progress in your Kinetic Creature project, you will eventually need to communicate a physical idea in your mind with your coach, and drawing is an effective way to do so.

For this purpose, we are going to use scale models of animals namely elephants, giraffes, rhinos etc. Each student will have to draw, using pencil and paper:

•  one TOP PLAN VIEW
• one FRONT VIEW
• one BACK VIEW
• at least one SIDE VIEW

of the provided scale models of animals. The views will have to be aligned appropriately on the page of the given large paper, so that the associations between widths, lengths and heights of each description are easily made (see examples above). Your drawing must use construction lines for alignment and line weights to depict depth. You will have 4 different types of lines:

• Darkest Line-weight: animal outline
• Medium Line-weight: animal parts behind
• Lightest Line-weight: animal details
• Fine Line-weight: construction lines

Last in your sketchbook, each student will have to draw TWO SECTIONS of the particular model:

• one by dissecting the model to its length
• one by dissecting the model to its width

When you have completed your drawing, scan or photograph it and upload it to your Project under the Updates Tab and tag it with #OrthoAnimals.