When no solution looks good, take a walk or do anything physically engaging. Change medium - do paper and pencil if you've been on the computer and vice versa. Write a narrative to work it out in words instead of images. Re-analyze the objectives (ask what is it you are really trying to do?) When you think all your solutions are equally good, ask for a crit.
When no solution looks good, take a walk or do anything physically engaging. Change medium - do paper and pencil if you've been on the computer and vice versa. Write a narrative to work it out in words instead of images. Re-analyze the objectives (ask what is it you are really trying to do?) When you think all your solutions are equally good, ask for a crit.
If I had a $100 bill every time I saw a professor turn someone's drawing sideways or upside down, I would have graduated debt free. (This should not be taken to mean this technique isn't effective, just that it happened a lot ... which might actually indicate its effectiveness)
Sep 27, 17 5:24 pm ·
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Wood Guy
At the end of design reviews with clients, before I send them home with drawings, I rotate the floor plan and encourage them to look at it from different angles. More often than not, the gesture generates an audible "ohhhh..." of understanding.
Talk over the options with someone, pointing out the pros and cons of each. See if they have any experience in your shoes and how their project turned out. Even if they say nothing, sometimes just hearing yourself say it out loud, the apparent winner comes to the fore.
strategies for getting unstuck
What are some good strategies for when you're working on a drawing and either no solution looks good, or all solutions look equally good?
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When no solution looks good, take a walk or do anything physically engaging. Change medium - do paper and pencil if you've been on the computer and vice versa. Write a narrative to work it out in words instead of images. Re-analyze the objectives (ask what is it you are really trying to do?) When you think all your solutions are equally good, ask for a crit.
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pick one and ask someone with more experience or more specific knowledge about the solution to verify that it will work.
When no solution looks good, take a walk or do anything physically engaging. Change medium - do paper and pencil if you've been on the computer and vice versa. Write a narrative to work it out in words instead of images. Re-analyze the objectives (ask what is it you are really trying to do?) When you think all your solutions are equally good, ask for a crit.
Tequila.
Why waste it?
Because then you can have the Scotch for yourself :)
We're all going to get laid!
Actually am more of a wodka kind of guy
WD40
Butter.
I reserve my butter for shaving
Look at it upside down or mirror imaged. Seriously; sometimes it shakes something loose.
that was a proven method when I was in school - the other was to switch desks with a classmate in studio, haven't done it in prof work.
or use one as the section & the other as the plan
If I had a $100 bill every time I saw a professor turn someone's drawing sideways or upside down, I would have graduated debt free. (This should not be taken to mean this technique isn't effective, just that it happened a lot ... which might actually indicate its effectiveness)
At the end of design reviews with clients, before I send them home with drawings, I rotate the floor plan and encourage them to look at it from different angles. More often than not, the gesture generates an audible "ohhhh..." of understanding.
Talk over the options with someone, pointing out the pros and cons of each. See if they have any experience in your shoes and how their project turned out. Even if they say nothing, sometimes just hearing yourself say it out loud, the apparent winner comes to the fore.
Try any of these Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas)?
Too oblique for the OP.
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