Before coming up with my final six for the analog version I had to make several rough drafts on tracing paper. I first started by just taking shapes and putting them anywhere on the paper and Tracing them. When first starting this project the directions were kind of unclear on purpose. I wasn’t quite sure what I was supposed to be doing but after I started getting into it a bit and asking questions to my teachers and other classmates the project started to clear up. At first, I was focused on the lines I was drawing and not so much on the contrast part. I didn’t quite understand what the professors meant when they said we would be creating a black and white version. After being confused for a bit I decided to ask more questions and rewatch the videos they gave me. Once I understood what we were doing is when I started to make a lot of progress
For my digital process, it was a lot easier for me to be able to create templates and make them look how I wanted, so I don’t have as many roughy drafts on my iPad as I do on paper. When making my templates on Vectornator, I would place the shapes in a position I found that I wanted in my head, then I would arrange them around until I got the result I wanted. The hardest part of using Vectornator was using the triangles. The triangle where not completely equilateral so when I would make my templates with triangles I wouldn’t get the same result on paper. This was before I realized that I could use more shapes than the ones given. It was also quite difficult to understand how to use the boolean tool because sometimes it would work how I wanted and other times it would completely change my template. 
My final six for digital were originally very different from my final six for analog before I knew exactly what we were doing. I originally made templates that had a lot of lines that I don’t think I would have been able to cut out for the analog version. I tried to create a template on paper like I did on the digital iPad and it came out pretty messy so I knew that I wouldn’t be able to execute the design without too much difficulty. So for my final six, I came up with a few more simples designs that I would like and still be able to execute. I also tried to make a few complex designs for the analog version just to show that I could but I knew that they wouldn’t be my final choice.
For my final one named energy, I originally made a design that I called mountain because it looked like mountains with a sunset. But when I showed the design to the professor he told me to be careful using words like that. But then I also ran into the problem where when I would turn the design into a contrasted image I wouldn’t get the design I wanted. So then I went back to drafting. I knew from the start that I wanted to use this design even if I had to change it up a little bit. So first I started by taking the design and copying it and flipping it over. I still didn’t really like this design because when I would fill it in it would give away the illusion the circle in the middle was further away. Then I tried making a design where I took the circle out and made the triangle overlap. I simply just didn’t like this one. But then I went make to the previous design and tried outlining it with a bigger shape so that I could fill in the parts that I wanted and keep the illusion that the circle was behind the triangles. After creating the design I wanted I still didn’t know what to name it. I was still thinking about a mountain range so I had a name like calm and peace. But then I went to my online class and someone told me that when they saw my design they thought of an energy ball and I could see what they were seeing. So that’s where the name energy came from. 
For the final, it was a long and tedious process. First I had to do some math to figure out the size of the shapes to use. Then I had to figure out how to measure the shapes to the correct size because 5.33 was kind of a hard measurement for me to figure out for some reason. Then cutting the shapes was very stressful because I didn’t want to waste any cardstock. To cut the cardstock I would first draw my shape out of the paper. Then I would cut it out using a ruler as a straight edge and cutting down it with my Exacto knife. After cutting out all the shapes I needed, I drew down some guiding lines on my background color very lightly so I could erase them easily. Then I chose to use the glue method that our professor deb gave up. I would put some glue down and take an extra piece of card stock to wipe the glue onto the piece I was laying down so I wouldn’t put to much glue on. Then I would place the piece down onto my guiding lines very carefully. I did mess up a little on part of it because the piece I was laying down was very thin and it would move around very easily. It wasn’t quite the result I wanted but I felt the mistake wasn’t bad enough to start the whole thing over. After finishing the analog version of the final, creating the digital version was very easy. I already knew all the sized of the shapes, I just had to put them where they go and revert the colors.