Combine two ideas into an object with an imagined use

A backpack-library needs more than two unrelated pictures on the page. Choose features from both starting ideas and explain how they work together in the invented object, keeping its fictional function clearly labelled.

A backpack-library combines carrying space with an invented book display.

Connect the borrowed features

Select features from each. Sketch a combined object. Explain its imagined use.

Choose functional or visual features deliberately from both prompts. The new object should have a clear relationship to the selected ideas.

Label imagined functions honestly.

How do the source ideas connect? Draw with a partner.

Resources

• Finish the Monster Drawing — Offer the unfinished drawing as one optional starting point for an original design.

Further reading

• National Gallery of Australia — learning resources

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