Puja Bankimchandra Patel

BD2014

Baksa - A tool for Urban Sketching

Wandering into unknown environments creates a rush of Dopamine and imagine having a record of that moment with you for your whole life. Cherishing your hikes, adventures, leisure walks or small discoveries and looking back at them is something that one should do. Hence a better way of keeping those recordings alive is by having them on a sheet of paper or in your mobile phone - which doesn’t seem exciting, but let’s stick to the traditional methods. Urban sketching is practiced for various purposes such as an art student who appreciates the different values of light falling on the building and bouncing off or an animator studying the different animal or human movements. How can it be made easier? Let’s find out together with trial and error… 

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An Introduction to Urban Sketching...

Basic study on Protagonists and Tools and Mediums required for on-the-go Sketching.

Various opportunities and Problems observed.

Observing Urban Sketchers out and about.

Brain-storming and thinking out loud.

Prototyping and trying out different kinds of folds and possible rigid structures through paper and Mdf Board, respectively.

The Flat-Pack: It was the initial concept that had it's pros and cons

Final Concept - Baksa which means a Box, in this case a compact box which acts as a portable painting set-up and can be attached to the edge of a sketchbook, be it A4 or A5