Design Elements
You are going to produce your design elements analysis on a Google Drawing, and make sure you illustrate it with examples from your design era that show the design elements in use.
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Making the Design Elements
The reason why you are going to make and draw the design elements as they are shown in your Design Era is so that you can have a deeper understanding of them. You are then going to use this understanding when you start the design ideas for your product design project.
Here are some of the things that you will be doing
Form
3D forms made in plasticine.
3D drawings, shaded, in pencil
3D line drawings in pen
Pattern and Texture
Rubbings on surfaces using oil pastels and sugar paper
Repeat patterns using clear plastic and black fibre tipped pen
Press printing using EVA foam and printing ink
Colour, Shape and Line
Painted colour wheel
Shape and line drawn and cut onto EVA foam, and press printed with printing ink
Pencil and pen shape drawings in 2D
Use Workspace to get your copy of the template for this work. You will take photos of your drawing sheets and put them onto the template.
Form
Element of Design: Form
Form is very similar to the element of design shape. The difference is that the term is form is used in art work that has three dimensions instead of two as shapes. The three dimensions are length, width and depth. Link to source
Step 2
Cut a strip of white paper and stick it down the left hand side of an A3 piece of brown paper.
Cut out your plasticine / card form pictures and stick them onto this page. Make sure you space them out to give yourself room for sketches and notes.
Step 3
Use drawing pencil, white, brown and black pencils and black pen to draw what you see in the photographs of your models.
Draw in 3D and use shading to describe the form.
Write notes in bullet point format to DESCRIBE what you see.
Pattern
Element of Design: Pattern
A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface.
Look at the patterns on the right.
What do they all have in common?
How are they different?
What are the key important things that make a pattern?
Pattern
Look at the photographs of your architects work. Find some small areas of them that you can trace.
Trace the small design elements from the photographs using the clear plastic and black pen.
Reverse / turn over the plastic and rub onto paper using the back of your thumb to transfer the tracing.
Repeat the same tracing multiple time to create a pattern.
Use the pattern sheet on the left as a guide - you can create patterns that look different by repeating the same thing in lots of different ways and directions.
Texture
Element of Design: Texture
The texture of something is the way that it feels when you touch it, for example how smooth or rough it is.