To start off, we did a project that was a simple 2D piece of art work. I apologize, I don't have a finished image of this, because my professor took mine (they are required to keep original projects of a few students in order to keep the program's certification, but the finished product was black ink for the swirls, and the circles were yellow- tea-dyed construction paper. Our assignment was to use five paint names that we were assigned and come up with a composition that reflected what we thought they meant and would appear like. To be honest, I can't remember all of the colors I was assigned, the yellow was frontier days, the black was Diva, the blue was Morning Haze, and I can't remember what the gray or the green were but the black stuck out a lot showing that diva's make things all about themselves and need to be the center of attention.
The next few assignments required little to no creativity and were strictly practicing line weight and letter techniques.
This assignment was straight copying another sheet of paper. We put the trace over the drawings and copied everything. I found that I should have made the objects in the front (for the picture on the left) a bit darker, so that it would read better. The wall-lines in the left picture should have been made much darker as well. But as everything, we learn as we go.
We also had one assignment to practice lettering. In landscape architecture, all writing is put in capitals. This makes it easier for others to read, and it also ensures that all letters are the same height.
To do this, we use a T-square and an ames lettering guide to layout the heights of the letters.
We are allowed to create our own style letters which is fun, but it's also more challenging than it sounds.
