To introduce Two-Dimensional Design to the students, they were taught the Principles of Design. These are the essential rules to create a visually strong and dynamic composition. These examples may appear simple but they take into consideration great planning to develop an interesting and eye-catching composition.
BALANCE DESIGNS
In the beginning of the year, students learned the Principles of Design. These “laws” of art marking allow an artist to create a piece of work that is visually striking and interesting to look at. These pieces of art are examples of the Principle of Balance. The students chose Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Radial, Random, Chrystographic or Formal Balance to create a basic design through the use of lines and shapes.
ORGANIC ABSTRACTION
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. 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.
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.
ONE POINT PERPSECTIVE
Building on from Paraline Perspective, students learned One Point Perspective. 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. These spray painted areas were traced, cut out and glued onto the Illustration board rather than painted like in previous projects.
ONE POINT COLOR WHEEL
For the Honors Sophomore Two Dimensional Design course, students created a abstracted Color Wheel through One Point Perspective to learn about Color Theory. Color Theory will be a major theme in the courses' final project. This was an introduction on what the Color Wheel is, how to create a Color Scheme and how to create values, color mix and work with complements.
TWO POINT PERSPECTIVE
For the final project, students learned Two Point perspective to create a design using a strong rhythm and emphasis. The major difference between the two perspectives is either creating the perspective of a shape facing the front of it or from its corner. Another major change from previous projects is the use of color. Students were introduced to warm, cool and contrasting colors to create a sense of transitioning value through the use of colored pencils