Red Swallow Creative
Design | Art | Photography
by Sandy Lee
Object Exploration and Representations (Fall 2017)
Part of a 4-part project series, this first project's goal is to create reductive representations of the chosen object for the semester in the class. This requires observing and analyzing the structure, highlights and shadows, and integrity of it. The object choices were a hose bib, a garlic bulb, and a dog bone. My chosen object was the dog bone.
"Begin by creating a series of photographs and detailed analytical hand drawings of the objects. The initial drawings should be realistic renderings with full tonal values, progressing toward more exploratory reductive interpretations based on these studies.
Throughout this process, explore varied light and dark surfaces and reflections, organic and geometric forms, the relationship between thin line and massive solid, as well as other contrasting or harmoni- ous forms. As you narrow your choice to one object, refine and reduce the complexity of your representations with the objective of arriving at dynamic, simplified visual descriptions of the object. You must determine the essential aspects of this three-dimensional object, which you will use in order to clearly communicate its nature in two-dimensional reductive representations.
Present five final images, each representing the object in its entirety, in black and white tones as specified for each representation..."
Deliverables:
A black and white continuous tone photograph of the object
A scan of a full-tonal value rendering in pencil on white paper
A scan of rendered highlight (white) and shadow (black) on
midtone (gray) paper*
A solid black and white reductive representation drawn in
vector-based application
An icon-like hyper-reductive representation drawn in
vector-based application
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