PROPORTION COLLAGESTo 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. One of the first few Principles they learned were Proportion, Scale and the use of the Golden Rule. These allowed the student to learn how to work with visual space, distribution of images on the picture plane as well as play around with exaggeration of size. These examples may appear simple but they take into consideration great planning to develop an interesting and eye-catching composition. BALANCE DESIGNSIn 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. Then, the students created value studies to determine how a limited palette of two to three colors, can create a composition which is strong and visually interesting. ORGANIC ABSTRACTIONAfter the Principles of Design, students learned how to develop a strong composition through the use of a dynamic Rhythm and Emphasis. Primarily, the students work is made up of flat two dimensional designs and do not show completely realistic representations. 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. After daily assignments to help them create their strongest composition with the best rhythm and emphasis, students painted them basic black and white to allow the contrast to emphasize the design. GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTIONAfter 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 PERSPECTIVEFor 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 PERSPECTIVEBuilding 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. ** Artists in the second semester had to create this project at home through Distant Learning. Although a couple were able to complete the project in the original method, some had supply restrictions, you will notice pieces painted or BW colored pencils. TWO POINT PERSPECTIVEFor 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.
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