27 septembre 2005

LINES AND DOTS

Hello,
The assignment for this week was to produce one drawing of each of this following notions with simple lines anc circles: motion, interruption, and symmetry.
The following drawing is my vision of motion. In order to picture motion, and not direction, and I thought that we had to understand that the movement started from a still point. So i drew vertical lines on the left, kind of like a wall, and then made a multi layer arrow going right. The arrow pointing right gives the image an horizontal direction, in contrast to the vertical of the "wall". and the fact that it is multi layer rising up is i think what gives it its sense of motion It does not just point to the right, it elevates itself as the eyes follow the arrow, therefore creating motion.

This second drawing is the interruption......I know, I know, I did not spell it right.....Anyway, I thought that this drawing was the hardest one....I had a good idea but lost it quickly.....and drew this: I tried to separate the drawing in two, so that if you look at the picture like a comic book, and therefor start paying attention to the details on the left and then proceed right, you see a bunch of circles connected by lines, that are suddenly split by a thick walls drawn with two lines, (kind of like the end of a picture in a comic book) and then, on the right of that separation (interruption) we see that the circles are not connected anymore but are in line to form an arrow. I tried to make the two side contrast to accentuate this interruption. The left side is an unorganized interconnected mass of circles, that could resemble stationary molecules; and the right side is more open spaced and symmetric.


The final drawing had to be focused on the idea of symmetry.....Here I honestly did not think too much about how and what I wanted to represent things, I just split my paper in four squares and added similar shapes to each side. You can notice that some elements of the drawing are symetric on a horizontal and vertical axis (4 planes), and some on a 2 plane(only horizontal or vertical).....I like the final result of the drawing, it reminds me of a skeleton playing cars in under the Peruvian sun in Machu Picchu....haha