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Common Fate, Chelsea Boyd '11

 

Similarity, Suzanne Scott '11

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John Drumm 2009 Superunit 'surprise'

For my design I had it in mind that I was going to do something that had no resemblance to the kaleidoscopic swirly type design that I see in a lot of the examples. Ever since I saw the design on page 153 done by Roy Lichtenstien of the Cathedral #2 lithograph, I had it in mind that I wanted to do a design along the same lines. My design for this assignment was done with the "little dot" technique as my inspiration. I call my design "Surprise", I call it this because the shape I used to make up my picture is a little surprise face. The design was created with Illustrator, and I used a picture of me that I altered in Photoshop. I used the command place, in Illustrator and used my altered picture as a template for the design. The shape consists of four circles arranged to resemble an emoticon type look. I used the divide command in the pathfinder menu, I then proceeded to duplicate, rotate, and scale the shape  and place it in the appropriate places on my template. I added a technique label to my design, and I also moved the border around a little. After taking a closer look my border over hung the edge of the canvas some so I fixed that. I added the border as a thinner stroke in my original piece but it did it did not look quite right to me. I like the thicker border because it felt like it provided more 'containment' for the design on the inside. I think the thicker border also served as a way to balance out the black and white, and served to better separate the design from the label; it kind of makes my label feel like it serves as the small brass plaque you see on the bottom of a painting. I am excited to try this again, but instead of using the surprise face I will use small pictures of myself to make a picture of myself. John Drumm

 

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