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Watch your step!

The last project, a group project, was based on the Jack and Jill rhyme. It was “interpreted” into another story and illustrated in six squares. Our group made another rhyme to match the other story:

Jack dragged Jill

Right up that hill

To throw her down the well,

With a quick whack

Jill broke Jack’s back

And now it’s Jill’s story to tell.

The six squared are organized in a single horizontal line with small rectangles holding each verse beneath the corresponding illustration. Unfortunately, nobody thought to document the process of making it until it was too late, but hopefully the photos of the final story will be up soon.

Many people create a lot of asymmetrical and rather random designs, using more organic shapes than geometric. Although creating any design can be difficult, it seems that the more geometric designs are the hardest to make successfully. Here is the link to some geometric (and successful) designs:

http://geometrydaily.tumblr.com/

Happy looking!

Finally we have the Repetition Grid project up. Apologies for some confusion with photos and such, hopefully they will all show (in order).

There were at least five different motifs that were assembled into the 100 square grid before the final one was chosen. The first one looked too much like bathroom tiles, but some of the others were not quite so bad. Below are images of a few.

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Scan4

Scan2

Scan1

Four of the different motifs entering grid formation…

One of the motif options

Another option

Another…

The final motif in the 100-square grid

And different pattern options…

Unfortunately, they all look rather similar. A trait of the motif, I think.

The scans for the inking plans had some troubles, but here are some examples:

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The final grid pattern was a mixture of all the attempts (for everything)

(Please note: Most of the scans and photos cropped, so the edges may not be true to form)

Critique notes:

- good craftsmanship

- interesting design

- although stretching (or breaking) the rules, the line drawing/design is interesting

- what about removing some of the three figures at the top?

- remove two left, keep right

The In Class project for today was an exploration of black squares. Given six words, each person was to come up with a design describing (or illustrating) those words.

See below.

Tension

Bold

Ordered

Playful

Congested

Increase