For my "Roll of the Dice" project, I wanted to do something I was comfortable with to start the year off with. I rolled numbers for Contrast, Architecture, and Paper. At first, I wasn't sure how to incorporate architecture into a paper project, much less how I could mold this idea into my own creation. I wanted it to look familiar to my style, but still fit the three main ideas of this project.
I've taken to calling this piece "Urban Curve," because of the urban feel I got from making it and the obvious direction of motion. I used bright, eye-catching colors with white highlights to attract my audience's attention, and made it stand out with the darker areas, creating a comfortable contrast. To pull the audience's eyes around the page, I incorporated a moderately fast-paced movement starting on the center subject and directing attention around the rest of the piece with the secondary object and a cut-out border I created.
To plan this piece out, I did little more than spark an idea, and grab the concept of buildings with personality from earlier drawings in previous sketch books. Most of the cut-and-pasteing of shapes was spontanious, and I was pleased with the result. After getting the basic skeleton down, I reverted back to a medium I am more comfortable with: colored pencils.
This piece is unfinished as of the present, but near completion. I'm stuck on what to do to make the "faces" of the buildings more dominant, and how to make the rest of the unfilled spaces interesting.
3 comments:
Excellent write up. I like how you interpreted your roll of the dice for this piece. I would add the lime green to the top where it appears you ran out of construction paper. Maybe try adding some colored pencil detail/shading to the lime green cut out areas around the building.
Oh, my goodness: they're buildings. (I've been looking over your shoulder as you've been making this & I could never figure out what the shapes were.) I like the colored pencil stuff a lot. If you could somehow--just maybe, maybe--figure out how to do more of it in this piece? I don't know, I just enjoy the rectangles of green and more green. They make my brain happy.
I like all of the movement you did with these shapes, and with that it seems like it has kind of solidness to it. Does solid movement make sense? Anyway, I also like the organic color in something as artificial as a building. I’m not sure that the open space left is detrimental, those places don’t really feel empty like it might in other pieces.
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