CLASS NOTES:
CG130 Drawing & Design Fundamentals
  
 

 
MIDQUARTER
  
 
OVERVIEW:
  
   

Our assignment for the midquarter was to create 2 drawings expressing each of the
Line Elements (Horizontal, Vertical and Oblique) and each of the Pressure Psychologies
(Security, Intimidation, Doom, Hot Pursuit, Isolated Detachment and Narrow Escape)


Decide first what you are trying to do/accomplish.
Have something to say.

Create a Laundry List of possibilities.

Organize your thoughts.
Positioning - Proximity - Size

Choose the relative importance of the items you will use.
No need to be too specific.
Leave some to the imagination.

Have "FUN" making it.
Get into it.
Go one step beyond applying the tools.

"There is always one best answer"
"Don't be irritatingly correct, be charmingly incorrect."
-Scott Kuntz

My personal MidQuarter endeavors appear below:
(These are the ones I turned in... there were at least 5 for each one you see below.)

    

   

The only comment I would like to make about the drawings is that whether you draw better or worse than I do, take the time to explore the ideas of line and the pressure psychologies. Don't assume you know how to use the tool just because you understand the concept of the tool. Owning a hammer does not make you a carpenter. Do the work. Hammer some nails. Explore the ideas by drawing it again and again and again. Draw it until you look at it and say, "I no longer know what else to do with it to make it any better" and then exult in your moment of completion until that inevitable person comes along to tell you it sucks, or to suggest how it could have been done better, or simply to offer nothing at all by way of comment. Design is an act of work and like everything else in life, you get better by virtue of actually doing it.

The only one holding us back from getting where we want to be is us.

    
     
 
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