Topic: Graphic images

Goals: Communicate through form

Objectives: Visual representation

 

Homework:
1 icon
2. letterform

 

review of icon criteria

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Reminder:

Use tracing paper to subtract your image sketch from your letter.

With thick marker on tracing paper, subtract your sketched icon from your black letter

Use 3 layers of tracing paper

bottom layer: letter
middle layer: object
top layer: sketch letter without the object

process of sketching with 3 layers of tracing paper:

If your letter is black, your image must be white
•Use thick marker to work with shapes, not lines.
•Focus: figure/ground and asymmetry

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HOMEWORK

1 icon: revise or new icon sketches 

Process: sketch with markers

1. 1.  Choose letter and image
      Choose new, or revise a previous sketch

2. Create 7 new sketches (approximately 2 inch squares)

3. Choose your 3 best sketches
 Enlarge and Refine. (approximately 3 inch squares)

4.  Re-examine your 3 sketches

  Refine them to fit this criteria:
  ****you will probably need to redraw to fit this criteria 

A. The image is the color of the background
If your letter is black, your background and all of your image is white.
  Or, reverse the colors.

B. The image subtracts from the letter.
It uses the counter-form of the letter and does not add to the letter

C. Your square image uses form only, NO line.

D. Your image is asymmetrical and not centered.

5. Continue to refine you 3-inch sketches until you have 3 that fit the A-D criteria above.

6. Once you have 3 sketches that fit all the criteria, add a check for each criteria (A-D)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Bring your 7 sketches, all your 3 inch refinements, and your 3 completed icon sketches with checks to class.
REMEMBER: you final sketches must fit all criteria.

 2. letterform

1. 1. If  needed, refine your final icon presentation
   2. Make a reverse image of your letterform
   3. Print both as 5 inch squares and bring to class

Criteria

1. 1. 6 inch square
   2. outline square with a 1 point rule
   3. center your composition and print on an 8.5×11 in page
   4. This is your final–composition must be crisp and exact!!