Geometric and Organic Project

Our professor started the class with geometric shapes because it is the basic start to a project. He wanted us to explore in our sketch books any medium we wanted but with geometric shapes. We took a whole class to explore in our books geometric shapes. (I will show that in my Sketchbook page!) I went outside to sketch. I really like the flexibility with the class, and I really liked going outside on nice days to just sketch. Once we became comfortable with geometric shapes, we moved to organic. Organic shapes have to rhyme or rhythm, which is really fun to do. We took a day to explore these as well, then we received our first project!

Geometric and Organic Project: One 18x24 project with geometric shapes and One 18x24 Organic Project. Any medium that we have already explored (markers, pencils, pens, and charcoal)

Geometric

I started in the center where the black is and explored color vs B&W. I really liked the small piece of color and B&W, but as I continued, I did not think that the B&W went with the rest of the project  If I could do it again I would leave it all color.
I used color pencil for all of the color and some charcoal in the B&W section. I used shading, stippling, hatching and cross-hatching in this project. I wanted to try and put everything we learned in one project. I LOVE COLOR and you will see that I use a lot of color in my projects and sketchbook. I think that B&W is sorta boring. The hardest part of this was all of the lines in the top of the project. It was very hard to keep it parallel. I used a ruler as a straight edge and that helped very much. Also, my favorite part is the section with each color of the rainbow shaded. I originally was going to leave that all white, but I decided against it and glad I did.



Organic:

This is my organic 18x24. I wanted to try and put organic shapes into a butterfly and I believe that I did. I also used shading, hatching and stippling in this project. The mediums I used were color pencil and charcoal. This was the first time I used charcoal and it was very hard to do, It was so messy! I started with the darkest on the outside and went in. If I could do it again, I would go from inside to the outside because once I went dark, with all of the charcoal dust, it got very hard to keep clean. After I did this project, I got more nervous using charcoal and haven't used in it may projects after; just in my sketchbook to keep trying to perfect.

Bailey