First Assignment: Line

Art 105: Two-Dimensional Design        

Professor: Kyle Stevenson

Project 1: LINE (Rectilinear/Curvilinear & Ruled/Freehand)

MATERIALS:

Graphite Pencils Pack of 4 Graphic or Soft Sketching Pencils (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B)

Black Inking Pens 1 Micron 04 pen, 1 Fine Point Sharpie & 1 (2 sided Fine/Broad)  Prisma-Color Marker

French curve with inking edge 10 ½ inking edge

Metal Ruler: 18” or 24”

Circle templates with large and small circles up to 2” in diameter

T-square or triangle with 12” inking edge

Sketch Book 8”x10” or 11”x14”

Pad of Bristol Paper 14” x 17” pad

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1: Start by choosing 6 of the 24 different adjectives or verbs below:

Fast

Heavy

Magnetic

Jagged

Smooth

Bumpy

Happy

Sad

Angry

Shy

Lonely

Hot

Shivering

Boiling

Windy

Dizzy

Smash

Explode

Swirl

Soft

Rough

Confused

Excited

Demolish

Step 2: Preliminary Sketching (using graphite pencils on Bristol):

·         In your sketchbooks, start sketching ideas for words/image relationships

·         Draw 6 rectangles of equal size on a single sheet of 14x17 Bristol Paper.

·         Assign your 6 chosen words to the 6 different rectangles

·         Make a design expressing the visual concept of the chosen word for each rectangle

·         Your designs should stay as abstract as possible (you should avoid making anything representational, objective, or recognizable).

·         3 of the designs should be made using a ruled rectilinear or curvilinear set of lines.

·         The other 3 designs should be made by using a free-hand set of lines (no use of rulers or French curves). These designs should be made just as carefully with the same degree of craftsmanship as the ruled designs.

PRELIMINARY DATE DUE:         September 6th at the beginning of class

Step 3: Final Draft, enlarging and re-fining your designs

·         Enlarge 2 of your best sketches into 2 refined designs evenly spaced onto a 14x17 Bristol page. Lightly sketch the designs in with your HB or 2H pencil and then you will ink your designs using pens or marker.

·         In the bottom right corner of each rectangle number each design 1-6 as it corresponds to your sketches (do not write the word on the front of the final).

·         On the back of the board, write the words on which the designs are based from your chosen words. (i.e. 1=magnetic, 2=Dizzy, etc…) 

FINAL DATE DUE:                         September 13^th  at the beginning of class