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?
Everyday Architect
Sep 27, 17 12:00 pm
pick one and ask someone with more experience or more specific knowledge about the solution to verify that it will work.
Wilma Buttfit
Sep 27, 17 12:24 pm
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.
archinine
Sep 27, 17 12:45 pm
Eeny meeny miney moe
Miles Jaffe
Sep 27, 17 1:30 pm
Tequila.
Miles Jaffe
Sep 27, 17 2:46 pm
Why waste it?
randomised
Sep 27, 17 3:00 pm
Because then you can have the Scotch for yourself :)
JonathanLivingston
Sep 27, 17 5:52 pm
We're all going to get laid!
randomised
Sep 28, 17 5:38 am
Actually am more of a wodka kind of guy
randomised
Sep 27, 17 1:50 pm
WD40
Wilma Buttfit
Sep 28, 17 12:49 am
Butter.
randomised
Sep 28, 17 6:09 am
I reserve my butter for shaving
Wood Guy
Sep 27, 17 4:11 pm
Look at it upside down or mirror imaged. Seriously; sometimes it shakes something loose.
JLC-1
Sep 27, 17 4:27 pm
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.
proto
Sep 27, 17 4:27 pm
or use one as the section & the other as the plan
Everyday Architect
Sep 27, 17 5:24 pm
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)
Wood Guy
Sep 27, 17 6:17 pm
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.
thatsthat
Sep 27, 17 5:10 pm
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.
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?
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.
Eeny meeny miney moe
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.