My Shapes

five shapes

My last image never had a picture :(

3 Stage Change

1st Image

2nd Image

3rd Image

Four types of lines

Mood: Formal-- "Do you SEE what I SEE?"


Mood: Calm


Mood: None



Mood: Angry


Revision of 3

In my first composition, I detect a formal mood. It feels like a computer. In my second composition, I detect a calm mood. To me, the composition looks like a flower in the meadow. In my third composition, I do not detect a mood, and in my fourth composition, I detect an angry mood. The curved lines look like a claw, creating an angry mood to me.

I think my third composition is the weakest because it is very simple and does not have a distinct mood. I took the curves of the 3rd composition to create a near/far exaggerated grouping. This created an anxious mood but still felt contained. (the figure on the left) I made the bottom very large and the top smaller to create a near/far feeling. The second grouping was the near grouping. Because of the squiggly piece of paper, it creates a calm mood while being fractured. (the group on the right)

Project 1

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First Draft

















With my first draft of the flowers in the flower pot, the drawings seemed boring and flat. However, there was continuity in the continuous line. The general shape of the flower pot and plant are curved, which gives the whole drawing a sense of continuity.
With my final draft, I changed the width of the lines for more energy. Because I wanted the eye to be directed at the flowers only in both drawings, I made the lines thicker in the flowers only. I also used different diameters of lines to create a sense of length in the flower pot, and length in the stems of the plants. This change made the drawings have more energy and made the drawings less flat.

Project 2

REVISION

All of my moods vary in my compositions.  However, I don't think any of them are neutral.  My weakest comp was definitely my "curved" line composition.  This is because all my other pieces have a distinct shape to them.  My first curved design seems so random and jumbled; I don't like it.  For my final piece, I tried to create a scene and a story along with my design.  I think I took advantage of the rules for the final.  

Black and White Lines Project

The pictures are in reverse order: The first is my re-vision (one of each line type), the second is one of each line type, the third is all curved lines, the fourth is all diagonal lines, and the fourth is all vertical and horizontal lines.

The moods of my original four pieces differed. The straight edged one seemed restricted and reminded me of a film strip. The diagonal one seems broken and disjointed. The curved line piece feels passive and mellow. The piece with all types of lines looks chaotic and musical.

I picked the piece with all the types of lines to re-visit because I felt it was the weakest. It was the piece in which I let myself have the least amount of freedom. I came up with a theme (music, piano, keyboard, etc) and found myself feeling trapped within that theme. That's the main reason I love my re-vision so much. It was a way for me to take that theme that I came up with (which I still think is really interesting) and making it feel as though it has more dimensions. I think I did a good job creating a near-far relationship in my re-vision. I was able to keep the theme that I loved so much from my first attempt and add in another symbol to give it depth.

4 types of lines

When looking at my first piece of work I feel that it was representational to my thoughts at the time. In the beginning of this project I was a little confused and I feel my lines show a sign of confusion and distraught. In saying so, when analyzing my second piece of work I feel my diagonal lines are sharp and show a pretty interesting design.

In my last 3 pieces of work I really like the progress I feel I have made. My designs all show a unique picture in all three. I specially like my curved organic line picture. I feel the design is unique and is bizarre in its own way. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment as I got to experiment with many different styles of lines.

Tim Thompson

Four Types of Lines

I did not intentionally try to illustrate my emotions when I created these pieces. However, looking back, I do think they display my moods. For my first composition, I was especially paying close attention to detail. Because it was the second week of school, I was stressed with the overwhelming workload. I think my first piece looks as if it is stressed to fit together. Likewise, my second piece is extremely clean, yet simple. I tried to loosen up and make it less busy and detail oriented.

However, for my last two pieces, I had a hard time with the organic elements because it involved more freedom. That is why I feel my last two pieces are my weakest because they do not flow as much as my first two. As a result, I revised my organic piece and try to focus more on proportion and size. I made the elements much larger so I could have more control of the piece. I wanted to add mood to the composition and hope it displays a peaceful, at ease emotion.

Four Types of Line

I tried to think of different moods for each of my compositions but the word “energetic” kept coming to me. My first piece reminds me of a magnetic field of some sort. It looks like the object in the middle is giving off a magnetic force, causing the other objects to attract and repel each other. In my second composition the diagonal lines remind me of electricity also giving it a energetic mood. My third composition reminds me of the inside of a computer or a computer chip. This was my favorite and what I believe to be my most successful piece. It gives off a “techie” look with all the different sized squares and rectangles. My last composition not only gave off an energetic mood but a gory/disturbing mood as well. The composition looks almost like waves in battle and blood dripping down from underneath.

I believe that my last composition where we had to make curved, organic lines was my weakest. Since there were a lot of curved lines I feel like it was difficult to get a real clean cut. I wish my edges were more smooth rather than jagged. I wish I was better at cutting in a circular path. I also think I could have used up more of the white space on the paper.

Flower

In terms of variety, my designs demonstrate an appropriate/high amount of energy. My designs are of a flower and what I thought about when I was sketching this was the life of the flower. I wanted to embody and incorporate the energy and the liveliness of this flower while keeping an animated feel to keep things interesting. Through my revision, I realized that the composition of the 1^st sketch was very standard positioning-wise. My intensions are to have the viewer look at any part of the design and feel intrigued at the details such as the leaves on the stem or even the pedals of the flower.

Although a line is very standard, the technique in which it is used reflects the essence of a design. In my case, the lines are used as a guide to reflect the intricacies of a flower. The unity of my design is consistent in the way that the fluidity from pedal to stem to leaves is portrayed based on its actual textures.

The pictures aren't in order how they should be but in my first piece with only straight lines i would say the mood is content. Nothing in this piece is too dramatic or surprising yet there is an element of abstractness that can be pleasing to ones eye. In the second piece with the diagonal lines I would say that the mood is curious. This would be curious because the lines are more playful going in different directions yet they aren't going out of the comfort zone of being straight and still keep uniformity and a pattern. In the third piece, the curves, the mood would be flirty and maybe dangerous. These lines are going in different directions and have a point to them almost like they are creating danger yet with the elegance create a flirting feeling. The last piece I would say being a mixture of all forms of line, would be in fact including all emotions. This piece also being uniform and including patterns has an element of drama to it with such harsh points on the bottom and almost a feeling of suffocation yet freedom with the controversial wave/net.

The piece I was least pleased with was the curves. For the first reason being the cuts didn't come out so smoothly I felt the need to fix this up. Also I felt I could have taken care of the white space a little more carefully and I could have come up with a better more interesting design to define a more intense mood. In the new image I focused on adding more interesting intense figures that took up more space. I feel the mood here is mysterious.