Object Exploration and Representations

Project Description:

"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..."

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Deliverables: 

1. A black and white continuous tone photograph of the object

2. A scan of a full-tonal value rendering in pencil on white paper

3. A scan of rendered highlight (white) and shadow (black) on

   midtone (gray) paper*

4. A solid black and white reductive representation drawn in

   vector-based application

5. An icon-like hyper-reductive representation drawn in

   vector-based application