Tag: cmu
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Photography Week
It’s the final week of the design fundamentals summer course. In some ways it feels like we’ve been doing this course for ages. And then, as always, there’s that feeling that it went by too quickly. This week we’re studying photography with Charlee Brodsky. As stated in this week’s syllabus, “We will look at, discuss,…
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Illustration Week Wrap-Up
Our five-day drawing bonanza ended with empathetic form. In our case, that meant drawing our own hand. As usual, Mark was there to help. And I needed it, as I have a hard time figuring out how to portray the dimensions of shapes such as the hand. This week was the most fun for me.…
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Amorphic Space
Today we drew organic shapes, what Mark referred to as amorphic space. He asked us to start by drawing a sphere within a cube, which was kind of funny because he told some of us yesterday that it was an exercise he did with his undergrads for weeks that drove them crazy. Was he trying…
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Rotational Space
As has been the case every week of the design fundamental course, each day we are forced to make leaps due to the time constraint. This has been working out so far, even though it always seems like a stretch when presented with the new task. Today we launched into drawing 3D objects. We first…
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Fat Space
Today, we tackled fat space, or cubic space. And the first thing we learned, after being asked to draw a cube, was that 90 percent of the class and likely most of the populous has an unrealistic idea of what a cube looks like on paper. Simply put, what you would likely draw as a…