Step 6: Creating a Composition
How would you like to arrange your composition?
- Depending on the color paper you chose to draw your englarged silhouette you may want to leave it on that paper, OR you may make a decision to cut it out and apply it to either black or white background. (You should only do this if you do not have complex edges)
- Arrange your Silhouette and Hands in a way that leaves room for your TEXT. Where do you want your text to go?
- Apply overlapping to your hands, silhouette, and/or text to create a visually pleasing image
- Will your work be a VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL, DIAGONAL, or CIRCULAR composition? What makes sense for your design? What looks best?
- You have to be responsible for making decisions about your work, I cannot choose for you. Rearrange your work many many times before committing to a decision. Use your Smart Device to take photographs of your work in a variety of arrangements and then compare them to each other. Show Mrs. Conte your photos if you'd like me to assist you in choosing a composition.
- Once you've chosen your layout, lightly trace your hands onto your page where they belong so you can find their placement later.
- Begin sketching your text using interesting TYPOGRAPHY you researched onto your final design. Be cognizant of where it is going, how it is incorporated into your work and the SIZE of your text. (Is it overlapped by the hands? Is it in the silhouette?
Final Design Criteria: YOU MUST HAVE
- A Silhouette
- Hands outlined using line weight techniques with thick vs thin sharpie
- Text, drawn and finished with sharpie outline, sharpie outlime and shading with pencil, or fill-in with sharpie
- All attachments must be glued down in a logical composition (Horizontal, Vertical, Circular, Diagonal with overlapping elements)
- There must be a pencil shaded component using gradation to achieve value shift