AU19

August 2019 semester

Pattern & Scale – Exploring Ideas – Project Five (2110)

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Instruction

Create your graphic from the previous project in 3D space.  Focus on volume and depth in two separate creations. Explore ideas and create a prototype. 

 

Purpose

This project is quick, communicate your ideas fast and effectively with simple creations that can express an idea. Explore the ideas of depth and volume and how they effect space and patter and scale. Experiment with chitboard and get used to it’s structural qualities.

 

My Interpretation

Volume as a concept came easy to me, but depth was more difficult. To help to understand ideas, I decided to start with a pattern that looks similar to my graphic and start warping it. Soon I realized I wanted to use the depth idea as a cave-like anthill pattern, bulding off the previously established bug theme. I changed the pattern and created tunells vetween the two seperate holes underneath in lower layes. I also played with layer height, making the top layers high and far apart and the lower layers literally touching.

Pattern & Scale – Concept Sketches – Project Five (2110)

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Instruction

Create twelve sketches highlighting both volume and depth of your graphics from the previous project in 3D space.

 

Purpose

Iterate and explore ideas. Understand how shapes and repeated shapes can create form.

 

My Interpretation

I struggled understanding this instruction and had limited ideas on both depth and volume. Starting with my fly’s eye pattern in depth, I wanted to see how creating a shadowbox with “bridges” crossing it in pattern. For volume, I would instead create ribbons of pattern up and around the space to create a volumetric shape. For the beetle graphic I explore depth by changing the shapes orientation as it descends, flipping it and rotating it, different depths and where it ends up. For volume of the beetle I explored smooth and ridged shapes, again with varying heights, and even distortion and waves within waves within the layers of craft.

Abstracted Metamorphosis – Further Progress – Project Four (2310)

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Instruction

Continue adding detail to the drawings. New layout template given.

 

Purpose

Finalize ideas and textures, prepare for final deliverable.

 

My Interpretation 

Using the notes from my previous progress post, I continued adding detail with new textures and perspectives. For the boot, I decided to ditch the leather texture and allow the bubbly additions be their own texture. The other drawings did not change from the previous post.

Abstracted Metamorphosis – Detail Progress – Project Four (2310)

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Instruction

Add detail and further progress towards final drawings.

 

Purpose

Further develop detail. Explore texture and what is added or subtracted from the form.

 

My Interpretation

For my boot rearrangement I decided to repeat the pattern on the heel throughout the lower post of the boot. I experimented with many leather textures but did not like any of them. I also wanted to change the perspective of the drawing to more clearly develop it’s shape. For the hair drawing, I also experimented with textures. I tried clog to upholstery to corduroy to velvet, but finally settled on that puffy coat material. I made the chair out of that material and made the back wall/remote holder a carpeted texture. Finally, for the pavilion rearrangement I also changed the perspective and added a lot more depth to build the space with it’s variety of tables and chairs and stools.

Color & Pattern – Tiling – Project Four (2110)

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Instruction

Using masking and four even rectangles, rearrange your tiles into repeatable patterns.

 

Purpose

Notice excessive negative space and adjust accordingly, explore what shape of pattern you want to pursue, full or half drop or tessellated.

 

My Interpretation

I explored the idea of flipped patterns and radial symmetry as well as full and half drop repetition.

 

Abstracted Metamorphosis – Breakdown – Project Four (2130)

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Instruction

Create a realistic, semi-complex, and essential component breakdown of three organic-like figures throughout OSU campus. Break down to only most essential details.

 

Purpose

Begin exploring the beginnings of abstraction and how forms can become simple shapes and can then be rearranged.

 

My Interpretation

For my three objects I decided to use a small flower, some small sculpture, and a mailbox. I wanted a range of organic shapes, starting with completely organic and ending with hardly organic. I also wanted to I explore different numbers of components, the sculpture having the most and the mailbox having the least.

Color & Pattern – Palette Progress – Project Four (2110)

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Instruction

Continue progress on Color & Pattern project.

 

Purpose

Reach towards the next step of the project.

 

My Interpretation

Using the wide-analogous pattern based off of the changing leaves, I decided to break up the large empty spaces of color with horizontal lines of adjacent colors, creating a small gradient. I experimented with both palettes by putting them on a 50% gray background and ultimately decreasing the saturation, adding some tints and shades, and changing some hues. Finally, I changed the background color of both to help aid the pattern in it’s style and intention.

Research – Abstracted Metamorphosis – Project Four (2310)

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Finding Objects

The goal of this research was to find at least six objects on OSU’s campus that had some sort of organic shape. It was necessary to take pictures of it from all or most angles or simply take a video of the subject while rotating around it.

 

Chosen Subjects

Walking around campus I spied for various levels of organic and semi-organic shapes. The first examples I had were a red chair shaped to the human body, and next to that was some covered outdoor heat lamps on Curl Market’s patio that also had a vague organic feel. After this on another day, I walked around and found a small structure/sculpture, a mailbox outside the journalism building, and a flower and bench just in front of Hitchcock Hall. My goal was to explore truly organic shapes found in nature (the flower) to objects that are only partially organic (the mailbox).

Exercise – Break Down and Build Up

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Instruction

With the given reference images, break down the subject by creating a realistic, semi-complex, and abstracted view of the same subject. For the final set of shapes, do the opposite, building up from abstracted components to a realistic view.

 

Purpose

Practice abstraction of breaking down and building up objects into a subject that was not their before. Exploration into essential components.

 

My Interpretation

The break down drawings are self-explanatory, but for the build up drawing I immediately saw a top shape. With that in mind, I created  a semi-complex drawing, adding detail, and finally further emphasized those details in the realistic one.