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Assignment6- Form and Space

Overview:

In this section, we look at 3 dimensional form, different from shape but created by bringing depth to flat shapes, AND the space they occupy.

Discover:

See links here for Drawing geometric forms, from the inside out. Milanote board

transparent construction geometric forms
  • Fill 2-3 sketch pages with studies directly from the resources, exploring sketchy forms, such as cubes, cylinders, spheres etc.
    • Sketchy means use charcoal pencil or HB type pencil holding from the back of the pencil to smoothly glide across page to create light criss crossing lines.
    • Play, invent, copy methods of transparent construction, then solidify corners and surfaces.

Define:

  • Work with Adobe Illustrator to create geometric forms
  • Use Shape tools, brush tool to create shapes
  • Use Effect-3D-Extrude tools to turn shapes into volumes, with varying options
    • Take notes during class demo for step by step operations.
  • Experiment first
  • Composition 1: Free experimentation with shape to form in Extrude window
    • Remember: Always press Preview to see your form
    • BLUE CUBE Rotates form into different perspectives.
    • Extrude depth and color options
    • Remember: Once you accept a form, YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE IT IN LAYER APPEARANCE. Find Extrude panel in Layer Appearance and you can re-apply new extrude options.
    • You May change location and scale of forms in your Document by moving objects
  • IMPORTANT :MAKE SURE TO VIEW and create some of your Illustrator forms in WIRE FRAME to better see within the forms to understand space and structure.
  • Composition 2:
    • Choose 2-3 form types from your experimental page
    • Use Scale, Rotation and Gradation to make ONE form repeat and create a sequential motion, from bigger to smaller and changing orientation, such as a box flipping over, twisting or falling.
    • See examples in Milanote
  • Design composition(s) will utilize Design Principles:
  • Repetition and Variation – choose 1-3 types of forms, repeat and make changes in SCALE (small to large to create depth in SPACE), and
  • COLOR variations; to add depth change INTENSITY OR VALUE (such as softer hues when forms recede in space, bolder when advancing forward)
  • Movement/Rhythm/Rotation: Make your form rotate in space, using blue cube in Extrude window to keep turning a form; spinning, falling, stacking, turning, etc to create a sequence on the page

Develop:

Final Challenge–DRAWING from the Illustrator compositions

  • MAKE 1-2 PAGES ON 9″X12″ BRISTOL working directly from the forms you created in illustrator.
    • pencil and colored pencil
    • try to draw in transparent construction then shade with colors of 3 values
      • light, middle tone, dark: mix hues and saturation but control values

Deliver:

Post all work on Milanote

Post Geometric form sketches, Illustrator compositions and final drawings on OpenLab with captions and final reflection.

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