Principles of Design Research

The piece of work I looked at today is called "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper. Hopper made good use of the Principles of Design to support the story and message of "Nighthawks". There is good balance in it with use of asymmetry. He uses emphasis in the picture with his placement of the bar in front of the other things on the street. He shows movement with the leading lines of the streets. He uses good proportion by making things in back of the bar smaller to show that the bar is closer than the rest of the street. Also the people are proportionate to the bar and street.

Pile of Sticks

It was extremely difficult to draw the pile of sticks, even when I wasn't trying to draw the individual sticks. Drawing is not my strength, and it felt awkward to try to draw the sticks. The outcome wasn't very good, it looked like a smudge with things sticking out of it. I think I needed to add more detail to the middle of the pile.

Found Object Sculpture Reflection

 

Mister Pierce

The concept for my sculpture was to make some sort of person. The idea came from the broken in half shell of a hand-held fan. The shape reminded me of a small person. I looked around for small objects for the nose and eyes, and I ended up finding other things that I could use for the rest of the body parts. Finally I thought I was done. I had feet, but it wouldn't stand up. So I found a piece of plastic that could be used as a base, then put rocks and shells on it so it wouldn't be so plain. I didn't really encounter any struggles, I think I was the first to be finished. Just because I did it fast doesn't mean I rushed through it, I'm happy with the way it turned out.

                                 

Pour Painting Drawing

Mid-term Reflection

For my engagement, I think I need to find things that I'm interested in. If I'm not interested, I will be much less engaged and pay less attention to the class. That also goes for the projects I've done. The ones that I've been interested in, like the sculpture and the drawing of the forest, I did better on, did them more quickly and I wasn't bored. The other projects didn't come out as well because I was bored and didn't put much effort into them. The sketchbook I think I'm doing fine on, it's actually kind of relaxing just to sketch anything you see. The drawing on Tuesdays I'm not always engaged in because standing up and drawing for half an hour really isn't my favorite thing to do, so I end up not paying attention to what I'm doing.

The Changing Still Life

To make this changing still life look good you had to draw kind of quickly and draw lightly as well so you could erase things easily. You also had to get the shading right to distinguish colors. I didn't do any of those things, because I didn't know at first that there was going to be things added. By the end of the drawing after erasing and drawing and re-erasing things, my picture basically looked like a huge grayish black smudge. You could hardly tell what anything was anymore. The way I would do it next time is draw lighter and get a good eraser.

Found Images Collage Reflection

"View"

The idea for my collage was a view from the cockpit of a plane. The view would show a futuristic city with other planes and roads in the sky with cars. The process was relatively easy, all I had to do was find images from magazines that fit what I needed and paste them onto paper. I didn't really struggle with anything, but it got pretty tedious after a while. I discovered that my idea actually wasn't all that bad. I think it coming out the way I wanted was the successful part of the project for me.