SketchesTool in a Rectangle Sketches

You can just sketch your ideas first with pencil based on these directions for the final.

Divide a rectangle into five areas, no two of which are alike. Use white paper, 18 x 24″. White areas are the white paper showing through. Use gray and black construction paper. Use horizontal and perpendicular (vertical) lines only – no triangles or curves are allowed. Distribute the black, white and gray so that no two rectangles of the same value are juxtaposed. Use cut construction paper and paste. Make small sketches of your design on newsprint first, then decide what their dimensions will have to be in inches.

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Make some sketches of the tool you chose, simplifying it to a 2 dimensional silhouette of its form to scale to fit one of the spaces in your black, white and gray composition that best fits the tool in its natural proportions. It doesn’t have to be tight in the box. Outline the dimensions of your rectangle on scratch paper and play with distortions of your tool within the other 4 rectangles. Think of the tool as made from rubber – stretch it, twist it, and mash it. Remember positive and negative spaces of the tool. When satisfied cut them out of construction paper and paste. Choose values that contrast value of the tool to the value of assigned rectangle. Consider overall design in placement. Remember eye always goes first to highest contrast ( black and white). You are looking for harmony between forms.

Design the grid, then design the shapes of the tool in the grid. Design each version of the tool in each rectangle AND overall the whole design. NO unintended tangents!

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