2D Design

Spring 2012

Instructor: Mark Creegan

Shape Project: Metamorphic View Materials: Bristol Board, acrylic paint, black construction paper, brushes, sketchbook Concepts: Metamorphosis, Transition, Rotation For this assignment you make a series of designs using shape that will illustrate a slow transition from one scene to another. Your source imagery for this design can be a view from a window or a scene from a magazine or newspaper image. Start by making several thumbnail sketches of the shapes seen through the window or in the image . Simplify complex forms into shapes, make sure that the negative spaces are interesting and help describe the view. The first image should be readable as an economically realized version of the original scene or image. Once you have a final sketch, make some other sketches that play with the shapes by altering and rotating them, the goal is to illustrate in a series of 5-6 designs a view that changes into another view. After experimenting with sketches, make 5 or 6 designs in black construction paper or black acrylic paint that show a slow transition from one scene to a different one. For example, cars could become trees, lakes into Pyramids. You could think of it as a way of changing the view you currently have to an idealized one, or one that shows what it will be in 100 years, or what it was a million years ago. Whatever the change is, we should see a nice, obvious transition when all 5 designs are lined up in order on the wall. Each design should fit well on a Bristol sheet with at least an inch border. Remember to use the design principles, and give equal attention to the negative space as well as the positive areas.

Grade Criteria: Technical: Are the works well crafted? Was the medium and presentation well handled? Conceptual: Do the designs show a nice even transition from one discernible scene to another? Are there any arbitrary changes or does it seem to flow nicely? Aesthetic: How is the overall form of the designs? Is there an interesting use of both positive shapes and negative space? Where unifying principles used (repetition, rhythm, emphasis, etc)? Is there a clever or interesting take on this assignment? Process: How well did you use preliminary sketches to help you develop the initial image and the transitional ones?