Making our visual essays was one of the more frustrating and assignments we’ve done this year. Our story began as a happy photo hunt for examples of the elements and principles of design, taking pictures, narrowly avoiding mr.Hawks, and throwing berries. Even though my phone died in the process, My partner and I managed to get just enough pictures to share between the two of us.
Downloading and sending the photos was the first sign of danger. Drag and drop stopped working. I downloaded them in the wrong form. Turns out I do not know how to use email. It took nearly all period just to send Jack his photos, only to send them three more times. Little did I know that this was just the beginning. With my pictures securely downloaded and in files, I set to work on the task ahead of me - neatly arranging and separating the photos into two different artworks: Elements of Design and Principles of Design. Ignoring the warnings and suggestions from my neighbor, I happily created a beautiful spark graphic with fancy borders and even a matching color scheme. But I should have listened to the warnings. I was supposed to make it in photoshop. In a rush of panic, I scrambled to fix my mistake - starting from scratch with half a period left. My beautiful graphic lay forgotten on another tab. Angry and out of time, I saved my inferior creations, planning to finish my project at home and vowing never to forget my beautiful graphic. And thus, our story ends, although you should remember:
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My favorite type of homework in DDA is the sketchbook assignments we have every week on various parts of human anatomy. Using the provided templates, we practice drawing hands, expressions, and poses, working on shading techniques and perfecting proportions to make our drawings as lifelike as possible.
The very first drawing assignment we had (aside from a portrait sketch) was drawing hands. Hands have always been fun to draw because of their intricate shapes and shading, but after six pages of tracing templates it got a bit boring and I ended up resorting to werewolf and pirate hands instead. Even though I've been drawing hands for years, it was harder for me to use the templates because I usually draw my hand by looking at it, this way I can see all the details and shading. When tracing the templates I had to draw by memory rather than sight. The expression sketches were more entertaining than the hands, even if they turned out worse in the end. Unlike the hand sketches, the templates were very useful when drawing faces, something that I struggle with. Nevertheless, even though the expression sketches were more challenging and engaging, I still drifted towards werewolves and goblins on some of them. The most recent sketch work we’ve had so far is the figure poses, which were the most difficult out of all the sketch assignments because they were in such an odd position. I didn’t know whether to add props and items or just leave them floating, I ended up doing a mixture of both. Surprisingly, probably because there were fewer pages and I was focused on proportions, the figure poses were the only sketch assignment where the species stayed consistently human. Overall,
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AuthorMy name is Xiomara Colopy. I am a student at DSA and am currently taking Digital Design and Animation 1 . Categories
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