How Did This Class Affect My Major
How did this class affect my major?
All my life I've been attracted to the two-dimensional. It's not that I couldn't draw in 3 dimensions or that I didn't understand the concept of depth, I had done it before but for some reason it gave me anxiety just to think about everything that goes into 3-D drawing and design. It was this fear of details that held me back. Every shape, every crease, every single tiny curl, made my heart race and my pencil start quivering. How would I ever be able to transfer all those precious features onto my paper? So, I didn't. I refrained from attempting realistic drawings and designs and stuck with what I knew, that is, until I enrolled in Drawing II.
Scale, Rhythm, Unity, Harmony, Repetition, Emphasis, Contrast, Economy, Form, Shape, Texture, Line, Value. These principles became like my 10 commandments. Every single project and drawing done in either class or as homework made me think about them, ingrained them in my head and I learned that it doesn't matter if you are an architecture, animation or even a film major, these set of rules are basic and very important for achieving a good composition. Drawing II taught us how to understand and implement each of them in our work to make it whole and complete.
As a graphic designer major and illustration minor, this …show more content…
I had become comfortable with hatching, cross hatching and other techniques, but color? That was unexplored territory. I went in with no confidence at all, not quite sure of what I was doing, but while I drew and painted I realized something important. Color is not scary at all. With the limited palette of soft pastels that I had and the abundance of colors overflowing my still life, I was forced to take in and overanalyze every single speck of it. I learned dissect one color and how another was made. I genuinely believe I can see a wider part of the color spectrum now than I used to
All my life I've been attracted to the two-dimensional. It's not that I couldn't draw in 3 dimensions or that I didn't understand the concept of depth, I had done it before but for some reason it gave me anxiety just to think about everything that goes into 3-D drawing and design. It was this fear of details that held me back. Every shape, every crease, every single tiny curl, made my heart race and my pencil start quivering. How would I ever be able to transfer all those precious features onto my paper? So, I didn't. I refrained from attempting realistic drawings and designs and stuck with what I knew, that is, until I enrolled in Drawing II.
Scale, Rhythm, Unity, Harmony, Repetition, Emphasis, Contrast, Economy, Form, Shape, Texture, Line, Value. These principles became like my 10 commandments. Every single project and drawing done in either class or as homework made me think about them, ingrained them in my head and I learned that it doesn't matter if you are an architecture, animation or even a film major, these set of rules are basic and very important for achieving a good composition. Drawing II taught us how to understand and implement each of them in our work to make it whole and complete.
As a graphic designer major and illustration minor, this …show more content…
I had become comfortable with hatching, cross hatching and other techniques, but color? That was unexplored territory. I went in with no confidence at all, not quite sure of what I was doing, but while I drew and painted I realized something important. Color is not scary at all. With the limited palette of soft pastels that I had and the abundance of colors overflowing my still life, I was forced to take in and overanalyze every single speck of it. I learned dissect one color and how another was made. I genuinely believe I can see a wider part of the color spectrum now than I used to