Professor Diana Schoenbrun | COMD 3313 | SP22

Author: Nicholas Albanese (Page 5 of 7)

Nicholas Albanese Week 5 Reading: Response

March 2, 2022 11:43 AM

When it comes to choosing colors for my next piece, I often find myself gravitating towards colors with low saturation but high luminosity. I often prefer warmer colors like pink and yellow over cooler colors. The reason I think I choose those colors over others in specific is because of the feelings they evoke inside me. To me, pink and yellow represent innocence, joy, playfulness and fun. They can both be inoffensive colors and both are often associated with warmth, play, and fun.

Nicholas Albanese Sketchbook Exercise Week 4: Thinking about Composition

For this week’s sketchbook assignment, the events I chose to portray were my graduation from high school and my first non-seasonal job experience at Five Guys. For the first drawing, I used negative and positive space and made the graduation coat and cap the same color as the background with the positive space consisting of my head and my shirt. I used a white pen to show where the coat and cap began as well. For my second drawing, I used diagonal lines with the patties flipping around me as a way to frame it and draw the viewer’s eye into the main subject.

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