Best Daily Drawing Exercises to Crack UCEED, NID DAT & NIFT

Skills Development through Daily Drawing Exercises for UCEED, NID and NIFT

The following are some important skills and abilities that are examined closely in UCEED, NID DAT, and NIFT and other important design entrance exams. Experts have advised students to go through these and understand in order to excel in exams:

Creative thinking

Creative Thinking is the sensitivity ability a designer should have that helps to analyse any change in the design and then respond accordingly to that change. Daily practice with drawing exercises helps candidates in more detailed understanding of the needs of the users and create better solutions.

Problem Solving

Once you have an in-depth understanding of the problem users are facing, it becomes easier to come up with the solution. Daily drawing exercises help students to develop the ability to generate more and more ideas.

Observation Skills

Analysing and observation skills are the key topics here, where it is important to understand objects in depth, with not just the outer, obvious meaning. The ability to observe every detail is developed by daily practice with drawing exercises.

Design Principles

The principles of design are the rules you must follow to create an effective and attractive design composition. The fundamental principles of design are Balance, Contrast, Emphasis, Hierarchy, Movement, Proportion, Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern. Students can understand and develop skills for design principles through daily drawing and sketching exercises.

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Daily Drawing Exercise for Students Preparing for UCEED, NID and NIFT exams

Daily drawing exercises will help students improve their hand-eye coordination and increase speed and accuracy. It also develops their understanding for composition and visual understanding. A list of best daily drawing exercises for students aiming for UCEED, NIFT and NID is given below by experts:

Exercise 1: Warm-Up Exercises

Students are advised to start their Practice with basic warm-up exercises as given below to improve their hand control and increase drawing quality and accuracy.

• Straight lines

• Curved lines

• Circles

• Squares

• Cubes

• Cylinders

• Cones

• Ellipses

Exercise 2: Figure Drawing Exercise

Figure drawing-related questions in design exams are asked to check students’ ability to draw human figures accurately and how correctly students focus on proportions. Students are advised to practice with stick figures and action lines first to understand figure compositions. Candidates can start with basic humanand animal anatomy and practice sketching figures in different poses. Take references from images or live figures to improve accuracy.

Exercise 3: Freehand Drawing Exercise

Design entrance exams like UCEED, NID, and NIFT generally do not allow students to use rulers or any other drawing tools; therefore, drawing without the aid of rulers or compasses can be intimidating for students in the exam. To overcome this, students should practice drawing freehand sketches and work on their line and weight control. Use objects like trees, flowers, and clouds to practice creating natural, flowing lines.

Exercise 4: Objects Drawing Exercise

Practice sketching everyday objects from various viewpoints to improve observation skills. Understanding of basic Proportions & Scaling is very important for perspective drawing. With the help of sketching practice for different objects daily, it gets easy for students to develop creativity and imagination skills for product design solutions.

Exercise 5: Concept Drawing Exercise

Drawing a concept or idea, often with the objective of visualising a product, space, or scenes, is asked of students in the design entrance exams like UCEED, NID and NIFT. Practice creating visual representations of abstract ideas and shapes to represent a concept. Start with brainstorming ideas and sketching roughly before refining them into detailed concepts.

Exercise 6: Storyboarding Drawing Exercise

A lot of questions in design exams are where students' ability to visually depict a series of events to evaluate a candidate's ability to convey a narrative, idea, or sequence. Questions are asked to create a storyboard for a simple narrative, such as depicting the steps of an action or event. Students are advised to practice with creating step-wise sketches for basic activities like making tea etc. This will give students a clear idea of how many steps and sketches are needed to show any event and boost confidence for the actual exam.

Exercise 7: Perspective Drawing Exercise

Perspective sketching is imagining how a view is seen and then drawing it out on paper. Perspective drawings are more realistic and appropriate.

According to the vanishing points, the 1/2/3 perspectives of the drawings are termed. Let’s look at examples:

• 1 point perspective: view of railway tracks meeting at 1 point.

• 2 point perspective: view of any space through human eye level.

• 3 point perspective: view from an extremely low or high eye level.

Students initially can use scales to mark vanishing lines and the height of objects just to get a better idea of vanishing points, but it is advisable to start sketching without a scale/ruler to improve their vanishing lines and straighter line strokes. Start with guiding boxes for objects and then create details for objects into the boxes; it will help in better creating heights and widths for objects.

Tips to Prepare for the Drawing section for Design Exams like UCEED, NID and NIFT

Below are some important tips and strategies that students should follow with daily drawing practice exercises in order to achieve high scores in drawing section of design exams:

• Practice sketching ideas quickly to improve visual thinking. Analyze good and bad designs around you.

• It is very important for students to first learn how to apply design principles: contrast, alignment, hierarchy, balance etc.

• The best way to develop the skills for design aptitude is to start creating solutions using real-life inspirations and case studies. Once you get a hang of how to design practically and innovatively, try to imagine and work on solutions without the help of looking at already existing solutions.

• Figure out your strengths and weaknesses and then practice daily to work on the weaknesses and simultaneously work on how better you can use your strengths for any given situation.

• Students can go through some UCEED, NID and NIFT previous year question papers, sample papers and mock tests to understand the type of questions asked in the exam.

  
  

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Books and Resources for Design Entrance Exams (UCEED, NID and NIFT) Drawing section

Here is a list of important books and resources that students can include in their study plan to prepare for the drawing and design aptitude section of the design entrance exams such as UCEED, NID and NIFT:

• Drawing: A Complete Guide by Giovanni Civardi

This book is a complete guide that is aimed at helping both the beginners and the more experienced artists to improve on their drawing skills. The book also provides a complete foundation in drawing principles by covering a wide variety of subjects and approaches.

• Master of Anatomy – Character Design Masterclass

A complete reference book for character design and drawing, with a special focus on anatomical accuracy. Artists and designers who wish to create lively, well-proportioned, and convincing characters are the target audience for this book.

• Lorenzo - How to Think When you Draw books

Lorenzo Mattotti’s "How to Think When You Draw" is a collection of books that helps students to gather insights into the creative and conceptual processes for drawing. This book also focuses on developing a deeper understanding of drawing beyond technical skills.

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