Elements & Principles of Design Diptych

Diamonds

The ideas that are visually evident in my work are space and balance in the top section, and color and emphasis in the bottom one. They also both include diamonds as a central idea. The story behind this work is that we had to choose two combinations of the elements and principles of design, and have them connected somehow. This relates to my life because sometimes one has to find the similarities in something that seemingly has no connection at all.

The materials I used were colored pencils, a black sharpie, a bristol board, an HB pencil, and a ruler.

The steps I used to create this were sketching and measuring the diamonds and borders, then I burnished and shaded with colored pencils, and then I outlined with the sharpie. My project evolved because I kept darkening the colors with the colored pencils, and I left some lighter. My nexts steps would be to add something to this piece, Just so it would look more interesting.