marks and lines

UNIT2: MARKMAKING AND LINE. Project: Personal cartography/ Informational systems 
Students´ pieces here   
       

Objectives: To explore the visual elements: LINE and MARK, and it´s descriptive, expressive and conceptual potential. To explore the relationship between information systems like maps and the way we process information.To use line and mark to link information and visual elements.To exploit emotional characteristics of line.

Overview: You will begin by picking a informational system.  This could be a map, a group of people, a set of numbers or words, some statistics, a system of ideas information about the natural world, a cosmology or anything you can come up with that has linkages between sets of information.You will use this set of information to create a complex graph.  

This graph must include reference to emotional, metaphorical, or narrative relationships between the subjects.

Materials: Various drawing utensils and media: pencil, ink, markers, brush, pen, paint, crayon palette…etc. white bristol board

Process:

-RESEARCH

-EXPERIMENT with your different drawing tools and media. Decide upon specific types of marks for your composition. (Note: lines of different thickness and lengths count as different marks even if they are made with the same utensil.)

-SKETCH out from 3 to 5 thumbnails (no smaller than 3” x 4”) compositions that display attention to implied linear elements— make sure that the overall composition moves our eyes continuously. Pick the best one of these sketches and make it into a full size sketch. Remember to think about how the lines you are making shape space. The final drawing will be at least 9” x 12” but larger formats are encouraged (1” x 14”) Bring these along with your research to critique.

You can Create a 1” to 2” margin (depending upon your marks) at the bottom of the page. This will serve as your “key,” like a map legend, for your marks. Write a note next to each mark stating utencil, media, and some other qualifier (e.g. “big,” “straight,” or “splattery”… etc.)

-MAKE CHANGES based on the suggestions of your peers.

-TRANSFER image to Bristol board in pencil (this may be unnecessary depending on what you are doing)

-INK your image in pen, drawing ink, marker, etc. Before you do this, make sure that you test your materials on the Bristol board to see how they will react.