The curious compositions project helped me understand stable designs and ambiguous design. The challenge with this project was staying within the parameters and ruler, no line work, and focusing on shapes. The point was to convey the object or concept while thinking about economy design and aesthetic. In my case, ambiguous designs tended to be much more abstract than the more familiar approach of a stable design. It was easier on this project to find more inspiration thanks to the mind map, and it made keeping the thumbnails more unified.
The hardest part of this project was to choose the are to zoom in on and how to place it inside the frame for the best result. One important thing I will remember from this project and last is to think even more economy. Sometimes my perfectionist nature gets in the way, so I find it best to keep preliminary sketches simple and then just focusing on more perfection for the final piece. Since a lot of the starting designs get trashed, it falls to reason to do the least number of elements that convey the most and then focusing more efforts to produce a clean final piece.
I really like the composition of your thumbnails, especially the ambiguous alien and stable darkness. You used negative space very well in the ambiguous darkness thumbnail to show how the darkness is almost overtaking the light. The shape of the stable eyes really improved in the final piece as I thought in the refined sketch, it looked more like horns than eyes. Overall, these are all very strong thumbnails and portray your words well.
I liked the concept you used to represent curiosity and the way you describe each of it in the writing part. I can see how you thought about how to improve your designs like the outlines in the final piece look very clean compared to the refined and thumbnail sketches. Plus the designs look very delicate.