After the Principles of Design, students learned how to develop a strong composition. For this project, each student was asked to find a unique organic object, to study its shape and structure inside and out and then take all this information to create a design. students painted them basic black and white to allow the contrast to emphasize the design.
Geometric Abstraction
After our Organic Abstraction Designs, students were taught the use of a Ruler, T-Square and Triangle. Through these tools, they focused on understanding the use of 30, 60, 90 and 180 degree angles. Instead of more natural lines, this project was made only of geometric, man-made angles as listed above. Just as the previous project, they were asked to create a strong rhythm and emphasis to create a dynamic compositional design. As for the colors, this project used black, white & now grey color which they created to allow for more complexity and diversity within the design. The students also utilized Negative Design Area, (The area around the design), along with the Positive Design Area, (The actual design.), to develop a two dimensional design which utilized the Principles of Design.
Paraline Perspective
For the third project, students applied the rules of working with angles, (30, 60, 90 and 180 degrees), from the previous Geometric Abstraction and applied them to this first attempt to linear perspective. This form of perspective uses parallel lines to create an illusion this flat two dimensional designs may have length, width and now depth. In this project, each form created worked with a different angle. As always, a strong rhythm and emphasis was created to direct the viewer’s attention. The grey, white and black color scheme was utilized once again. Instead of placing color anywhere, they were asked to imagine a light source for each form to create a stylized highlight, mid-tone and shadow.
One-Point Perspective
Building on from Paraline Perspective, students learned One Point Perspective. The difference between the two perspectives is one uses parallel lines while the other has a particular focal in one direction. Students utilized the use of a Horizon Line, Vanishing Point and Orthogonal Lines to create more realistic forms of linear perspective. After a composition of a strong rhythm and emphasis was creating, students had to use spray paint to create the values. This tricky process of spraying various values, tones and textures onto paper can be unpredictable but the outcomes create a sense of changing values and depth to the design which we did not see before. These spray painted areas were traced, cut out and glued onto the Illustration board rather than painted like in previous projects.