A Reflection On My Geometrical Design Project
My project was given to me on the January 8, 2018; a week into the start of school. I was not expecting a big project like this to be given so early in the year, so I pushed it away for a week until I began practicing drawing the shapes from examples on the booklet, and I could get a firm grasp on what I was doing, and not make as many mistakes when beginning on the final project. The main goal of this project was to make a geometric design -hand drawn- on a poster board or anything as big as one, and to draw at least 6 two-dimensional designs and be able to name at the minimum 8 constructions in total. The designs were a series of complex shapes made up of smaller units which were the …show more content…
I was able to draw the shapes just fine, and took the patience to make the lines neater. The one thing giving me trouble were the mesh corners. I had seen many videos doing it and tried to replicate their design, but I always made one or more mistakes that threw me off track, and I wasn’t able to get that curve illusion. My problem, was in the measurement of distance between my lines and the amount I drew. I started drawing uneven right angle borders, with uneven marks to represent the distance between each line drawn or that was to be drawn. This many lines meant I would have draw very finely, which always made me skip connecting one line to the right end. That amount of lines also made it to where the illusion of the curve didn’t show as much for the size that I was drawing. I struggled until I found a rule of 7, where I simplified it to only making 7 lines and marks on each side of the corner. This also made the drawing easier to keep track of, made it look neater, and made the curve illusion I wanted pop out more. It also made tracing with sharpie later look neater and avoid a smudging of lines. I drew four corners with mesh designs, and started on my final poster. The center of my poster consisted of the regular Star of David, which was the biggest design in my poster and the one I felt I drew best. Surrounding it, I had two more Stars of David across from each other, but this time, using the overlapping triangles design, which were six equilateral triangles overlapping each other to make a star pattern. On the opposite diagonal, I drew two of the same kind of interwoven squares. In the end I had 5 shapes, one Star of David, two overlapping triangle designs and next to it, interwoven squares. Surrounding them, were four corner of mesh grid design. I decided to do a pattern on my mesh designs to make it more interesting, so I colored
My project was given to me on the January 8, 2018; a week into the start of school. I was not expecting a big project like this to be given so early in the year, so I pushed it away for a week until I began practicing drawing the shapes from examples on the booklet, and I could get a firm grasp on what I was doing, and not make as many mistakes when beginning on the final project. The main goal of this project was to make a geometric design -hand drawn- on a poster board or anything as big as one, and to draw at least 6 two-dimensional designs and be able to name at the minimum 8 constructions in total. The designs were a series of complex shapes made up of smaller units which were the …show more content…
I was able to draw the shapes just fine, and took the patience to make the lines neater. The one thing giving me trouble were the mesh corners. I had seen many videos doing it and tried to replicate their design, but I always made one or more mistakes that threw me off track, and I wasn’t able to get that curve illusion. My problem, was in the measurement of distance between my lines and the amount I drew. I started drawing uneven right angle borders, with uneven marks to represent the distance between each line drawn or that was to be drawn. This many lines meant I would have draw very finely, which always made me skip connecting one line to the right end. That amount of lines also made it to where the illusion of the curve didn’t show as much for the size that I was drawing. I struggled until I found a rule of 7, where I simplified it to only making 7 lines and marks on each side of the corner. This also made the drawing easier to keep track of, made it look neater, and made the curve illusion I wanted pop out more. It also made tracing with sharpie later look neater and avoid a smudging of lines. I drew four corners with mesh designs, and started on my final poster. The center of my poster consisted of the regular Star of David, which was the biggest design in my poster and the one I felt I drew best. Surrounding it, I had two more Stars of David across from each other, but this time, using the overlapping triangles design, which were six equilateral triangles overlapping each other to make a star pattern. On the opposite diagonal, I drew two of the same kind of interwoven squares. In the end I had 5 shapes, one Star of David, two overlapping triangle designs and next to it, interwoven squares. Surrounding them, were four corner of mesh grid design. I decided to do a pattern on my mesh designs to make it more interesting, so I colored