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ART105

I took ART105: 2D Design as a sophomore in Spring 2007. It was one of my favorite classes as well as my first art class since about seventh grade. Shown here are a few of the projects we did in class.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Portfolio

January 2007 // Line Art

For our study of line art we had to use different kinds of lines to create works that implied space. The first one was the one I ended up using for the final piece to turn in on that assignment. When i originally made it I was thinking of a horizon or a tunnel. The second piece I was thinking of the flow of energy and electricity. For the last piece I wanted to kind of combine the two previous concepts along with the idea of a subway tunnel. All of the pieces were done with Sharpie markers on 11.5 x 8 inch cardstock.

February 2007 // Shapes

For this project, we went through various magazines and clipped out 1 inch x 1 inch peices that contained a lot of shapes. We then had to reduce the clippings down to black and white only. After we had done that, we had to find a way to add back in some gray areas. The final piece was supposed to have about the same amount of black, gray, and white, with no color dominating. We then had to paint it using acrylic paint, which was somewhat difficult since mine had so many tiny, intricate details there.

March 2007 // Printmaking

The next photo was a printmaking assignment. For this project we once again went through magazines and found some images that had a lot of different tones in them. From there, we made a print with a pattern on it, mine being circles. We then used the print to make 5 different sheets of tones, some which were light colored, had to go back to the image we found in the magazines and split them up into 5 different shadings of gray, plus white. This created a piece of paper which looked like a Color-by-Numbers drawing. When we had that, we cut apart the tones we had made and assembled them over the numbered drawing to create the piece shown here.

April 2007 // Collage

The next photo is from our assignment on a collage. We had to think of four different images that all had various visual textures. One had to be a food, another an animal, another a letter or number, and the last one a manmade object. I chose to use a strawberry, a giraffe, the letter Z, and a djambe. We then had to take these four images and create a collage out of them where the textures went in and out of the objects they belonged to (such as drawing part of a giraffe with strawberry seeds). We made three of these, the final of which is shown here.

May 2007 // Growth Animation

The last image was the final project for the class. For this we had to take several blank peices of paper and draw lines and circles on them. Afterwards, we had to think of a concept and draw or paint 4 images that would tell a story, using the lines and circles we had on paper. I chose to go with the concept of a girl going to see a concert. This was done with acrylic paint on cardstock. To achieve the glazed look on parts of it, I watered down the paint. This was done mostly to acheive the lighting effects.