Beginning our Visual Communication Brief - Week 1

As this is a separate brief, I decided not to mix the visual communication work up with my main sketchbook. This is why I decided to create a new sketchbook specifically for this work.
      As the aim of this project is to create a perfume bottle design, you can see I created 3 small watercolour drawings of perfume bottles in the middle of the cover, I also drew my hand in a few different positions at the bottom of the cover to show drawing from observation.
     Finally, I completed the title 'Visual Communication' with ripped pieces of paper and a light wash of pink watercolour.

We began the first task of naming formal elements in drawing such as:
Lines, tone, depth, texture, perspective and scale. We then focused on line and began to explore it's properties and potential.
     We found that it can create tone, and that the softness and hardness of it can be used for the basis of important elements in art such as calligraphy, depth and perspective.
                                         


We then explored how using lines in simple shapes such as circles can create form, and make it appear 3D, this is called contouring. I also created the image of a leaf and gave the image the appearance of curves using only light and dark lines.
     

          We then went on to draw a Mobius Strip                   using only lines to highlight it's shape and                   curves, rather than tone or shading.