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Dry construction sculpture - AQA3D designing

Dry construction uses dry materials, eg card or wire, instead of wet materials such as clay. These can be used to create sculptures varying in scale and form.

Part of Art and DesignSculpture

3D designing

3D designing means planning and creating art projects that have height, width and depth.

Planning out a design and making a small-scale model, also known as a is useful for visualising the final design.


                    Model of playground equipment including swings made from a bisected ping pong ball and a climbing frame made from cardboard hexagons.
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This maquette has been made from repurposed materials to create a model of a children鈥檚 playground.

Several drawings done from different angles of something is called an drawing, or an orthographic projection.

Creating 3D form using tone

Black and white sketches of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cubes, cuboids and spheres

In drawing, form is created through the use of which makes something appear 3D on a 2D surface. Different drawing techniques can be used to achieve the tones necessary to create the 3D effect for this kind of design.

Form in art refers to three-dimensional shapes which have length, width and depth. 3D forms have and .

Question

What is a maquette useful for?