Intro
When starting the analog part of this assignment, I honestly felt pretty stuck. I had no idea how to start but I knew that I really liked the squares and I liked layering effects. After i cut out the squares, circles, and triangles, I just wanted to see how I could play with the shapes in different ways so for most of my ideas, I did a lot of repeating patterns or used the same sized shape but for a few I decided to play with the different shape sizes.
6 Analog
When I was trying to decide which of my analog iterations I wanted on my final sheet of Bristol, I thought to myself “how do these make you feel?” And so for the 6 that I choose I mostly really wanted to feel movement because that’s how I feel being in a new state. A lot of movement. So I was able to use this assignment to be able to reflect on how I feel about my life currently.
6 Digital
I wasn’t really thinking about the digital aspect much and I had some problems along the way. I originally was going to use Adobe Illustrator since it’s what I’m used to but then I had some troubles with my adobe account on my laptop. Luckily for me, Camille showed us Vectornator so I wasn’t completely lost. I didn’t focus on the digital aspect but I enjoyed playing with combining the shapes to create new ones.
Final
When trying to decide which of my iterations to use for my final, I was really drawn to my 5th analog one. When looking at it I felt the movement and I named it falling because it feels like I’m falling into the iteration every time I looked at it. It was kind of like an illusion a I was really happy that I was able to create such an image just by connecting the lines on the squares. I decided to do it all in card stock since I wanted to be able to see the full illusion that would come with the two iterations side by side.
Math Magic
Now that I knew which iteration I wanted to create, I had to convert the 3×3 square into an 8×8. This made me worried because all my math skills had left my head. However I dug through the back of my brain to pull out the ratio equation to figure out how big of a square I had to make. Along with trying to figure out a new ratio, I also had to figure out how big the spacing was in between the squares which required more math. Through trial and error on Bristol and plain paper, I finally had the square and the spacing that I wanted.
Stencils aren’t just for kids
When going about cutting it, I used a ruler to make little marks as to where the lines would start and end then drew them in with a pencil. I also used a ruler and my knife to cut out the card stock to ensure that the lines were straight. I only ended up having to cut out two pieces since my iteration was just multiple squares connected and I was able to just cut out the middle rectangles where it needed to be open. When having to do the inverse, I decided that the easiest thing to do was trace my original onto black card stock. It ended up working well and I just had to use a ruler and my knife to properly cut out the new iteration.
Glue’s not just for eating
Placing the iterations on their respective revered card stock was slightly a challenge since it was such a large but holey piece of paper. I didn’t have access to my roommates iron since she was not speaking to me at the time but if she was it wouldn’t have been all that bad since I would’ve used the gluing method that Zach suggested. I instead had to paint small sections with glue at a time and place them down before starting on the next section. All and all though, it wasn’t too bad.
