:-) emojis

INVESTIGATION #1

methods 

• Create a 1" x 12" rectangle, broken into units of 1" x 1" (totaling 12 units)
• Create a Value scale from Hard (H) to Soft (B + Ebony) Pencils, light to dark
• On subsequent pages float 2" x 2" cell blocks in the center of your sketchbooks, maximum 6 to a page.

concepts + vocabulary development
- figure - ground relationships
- value of graphite pencils Hard (H's) vs. Soft (B's)
- abstraction - non objective - representation
- objective vs. subjective
- composition - frame - cell - contour edge
- diversity - portion - placement - scale - visual weight - linear movement - visual rhythm
- purpose + function - aesthetic > form + function 
- design solutions in regards to assigned functions of commercial products

UNLIKE SOCIAL MEDIA emojis, you will be making use of Non Objective lines that will subjectively describe the following adjectives:

• SOFT 
• HARD
• EXSTATIC
• TRAGIC
• LONELY
• OPPRESSIVE
• CHILDLISH
• LEADERSHIP
• BEAUTY
• GROTESQUE   

You are the DESIGNER!
Making use of non objective shapes, describe the same adjectives above

• fill with your Sharpie black marker
• consider the figure as white in some cells to activate a composition of interest
• consider ground as black to activate a composition of interest

TOTAL 20 cells in your sketchbooks
COPY one favorite page of LINE CELLS + one page of SHAPE CELLS for critique next class