Posted by Agnes Iley , Friday, October 1, 2010 6:48 AM
Assignment 1 – Building a visual vocabulary
Project 1- Making marks
Mark making
First exercise mark making. Now I can't draw to save my life, but I can doodle with the best of them.
Just check out my notes from long boring meetings....you need a sharp eye to find the notes in between all the doodling.
But I quickly discovered that aimless doodling is maybe related, but definitely not the same as purposeful mark making.
So I got my little sketch book out and..........stared at the blank page. This is my first sketch book since I was a small child and even then the first page always had to be perfect. It took me a few minutes to convince myself that sketch books are not suppose the be neat and that they are not the most expensive thing in the world. So I started doodling and over the next few pages slowly tried to be less aimless.
Some questions came to mind. Like what determines the feeling of the marks, is it the shape or direction of the line. Or is it the weight of the line.
I finally decided that I can't really split the two. For instance when it came to difference between "fast" and "slow" it was definitely the direction of the line. But when it came to "hard" and "soft" it was more about the weight of the line.
When it came to the feelings "happy" and "sad", I wondered if the marks I made where actually portraying these moods or of it just was a personal connection that I have with a certain mark.
Would someone who didn't know the story behind it understand the mood I was trying to portray?
Hmmm.....only the first exercise and already so much to think about....
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