Discover

My mind map consists of areas that interest me, places I’ve visited, and words that help to further describe and expand on these topics.

 

 

 

 

 

Define

These were the first items to pop into my head when I thought about my three main areas. The first is a snow globe to represent exploration/travel, the second is a pair of gold bangles that I’ve had since I was a baby to represent fashion, and the third is a paintbrush to represent design (creativity, art, self-expression, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

Develop

Deliver

Personally, I found that making sure everything was symmetrical and suited according to the right measurements to be the trickiest part of this project. Additionally, my hands are a bit shaky so certain things were a little challenging for me to keep precise. If I were to alter one thing, it would be to invert the colors in my ambiguous drawings to make them appear more puzzling. Although my inked compositions certainly aren’t my best work nor ideal to my standards, hopefully my next piece will be much more improved.

 

Discover:

When I was making my mind map, I thought of all the things that I love and enjoy doing, whether it was physical or not. 

Define:

I took three objects I had came up with which was my headphones, my speakers, and my keyboard. I proceeded to sketch them out in both stable and ambiguous.

Develop:

Reflection:

Throughout the whole process of this project, I learned to draw with creativity and how random idea that comes up in my mind can be shown on a piece of art. I also had some really good constructive criticism from my fellow peers. I could have improved by switching the white space in my inkings to make it more ambiguous. In my next project, I can implement what I learned about white space and fix the mistakes such as accidental line marks to make my piece better. 

Discover

These are all the words that popped into my head when I heard the word Curiosity. From the keywords in the boxes, more words began to branch out and I connected them to other words within the Mind Map.

Define

The Sketches on the left side represents my bonds with friends, it is supposed to be an alpaca toy that one of my friends gave to me for Christmas. The Middle Sketches represents my creativity which I portrayed with a rock that I found and decided to crave into to create something new. The Right Sketches represents how music is my goto for when I really need to think.

Develop

Deliver

The hardest part of doing this project would probably have to be setting up the measurements specifically. After setting it up, the drawings and filling in the spaces that needed to be filled were easier. I enjoyed the process of creating both stable and ambiguous figures. In the future, if I were to do this again I would plan what I’d be making my figures better since the figures on the right side were thought about last minute and felt a bit rushed to me.

 

 

(By:Elijah Castra) 

Discover: This is where it all started. When tasked with this I created the mind map, as did everyone else, started with the word “curiosity” and seen where that led me to. Ultimately after doing so the 3 main things that
stood out to me were the brain/ the mind, money and clothing (there were more but I picked these 3. And I then went on to make thumbnail sketches.

Define: Now moving on to the thumbnail sketches. These sketches were a little bit difficult to come up with because originally I just made random things. But I didn’t know we had to be specific on an object and not more generalized so the first picture (below) is the first iteration of my drawing thumbnail sketches and the 2nd picture (below) is the more refined sketches/ the ones I used for the final product.

Develop: Now moving on to the final product which was turning the sketches into actual clean & finished drawings then using inking pens to finish them. This was a challenge because I had never used inking pens before. So some of my drawings look a little bit awkward I guess you could say in terms of the shading. And one of my final drawing was supposed to look like a shirt but I forgot to add something so it looks like an arrow (top right box shown in picture below) but other than that I thought it was a pretty cool and interesting project.

 

I think these drawings reflect a major part of who I am and each artifact describes a piece oh what represents me.

This is my mind map. These are most of the things that I’m curious about. I wrote down what made me curious and then I went from there.

These are my first sketches. The first one represents technology. It is a Venn diagram and it shows that we have evolved enough in technology to be able to use this diagram. The second one represents people. People drive my curiosity because of the stuff we do everyday and other things. Why do we do the things we want to do and why do we have different eye colors. The last one represents nature.This is my finished artwork. I think I messed up a little but I’m glad that I learned how to do this. It was a fun project to do

 

Creating my mind map was probably the easier part of this project . Brainstorming and gaining ideas of curiosity and how it inspires me .

Getting ideas for my thumbnails was probably the hardest part . Every time I stuck with an idea another would pop up and I would add it .

Putting the pieces together was easier it was just a struggle to maintain my hand steady .

Overall what I learned about this project was thinking how curiosity inspired and going into depth with it . Also getting to know my taste in design . For next time I would’ve liked to have probably a better method to filling in with ink .