Critique on squares

My team mentioned that both of my square designs were obvious that they were each playful and periodic. However, if the periodic one were to stand by itself then it would be hard to see it as periodic. To them they saw it more as a little on the playful side and had to really contemplate if it was periodic. They wanted the periodic piece to be more central and symmetrical as well as the squares to be the same size.

They saw all of the gestalt principles in my pieces except for proximity.

A pattern they noticed was that on both square designs the positive space seem to start on one corner of an edge. My team mentioned that I had good use of space between the squares because it gave a 3D effect.

Everyone agreed that they want to see the puppy to be texturized so I will do just that because I like the puppy too.

Exquisite Corpse

The original sentence: The heated house flipped to ok school.

The tweaked sentence ( I thought it was funnier this way): The heated house flipped the ok to the school.

From Dots to Squares

Drew thumbnails. These are only some of them.

I rendered 4 periodically and the 4 playful.

I chose these two for periodic and playful. The one on the left is periodic and I chose this one because I like how it gives the illusion of 3D space and it compliments well with the other one. I chose the one on the right playful because it looks like a puppy and who says that puppies aren't playful. My Jaguar wouldn't stop bugging me to put him in the picture.

Reading:Living With Art

Artist bring four functions: record, visualize the unknown, portray feelings, and stretch one's ability to see.

Creative people  possess certain traits: Sensitivity, Flexibility, Originality, Playfulness, Productivity, Fluency, Analytical Skill, Organizational Skill

Anyone can be creative but the class focuses more on visual creativity.

Beauty and ugliness is subjective. A good piece of art evokes some sort of great emotion whether it is a good emotion or a bad one.

Many artist are good at recreating nature but choose not to because they want to draw or paint what they themselves see.

Representational art are images that look very much like the real world or nature.

Abstract Art: Stylized art are basic geometric shapes that represent a real thing.
                      Nonrepresentational art is art with shapes and color that do not represent anything.

Critique on Cardboard

I'm making a crab claw that you can wear on your arm. My group was able to tell that just by looking at it and thought it was really cool. They thought it was interesting that it was very geometric, segmented to resemble more of an arm, and shows mobility. The enjoyed the way I connected my piece together on their ends. Apparently, the group said that the piece looks really stylized and functional with its geometric form giving it a kinetic feel. Has a smoothness all around that brings you in to the piece.        

Then they said it was too perfect and needed to be unbalanced and off. That's when I went "whuh?"

I forgot to post up my object

Anywho, I made progress by making two more sections and combing two of them.

My sister told me it looked like a milk glass.

I glued the flaps that I made on the ends together. It looks pretty neat from the inside.

After the thumbnails I drew up all 40 of them.

After that I cut them.

As soon as I finished up drawing, shading, and cutting all 40 thumbnail,

I picked the top sixteen. My group then critiqued them. They saw that my habit was that I had a range of small squares and very large squares. I didn't have any (or very few) medium sized squares. The shading is very noticeable on the larger circles because I used a thin sharpie so you can see all the marks that I have done. They all liked they way a did my shading because I made designs within the circle. For example, one large dot looked like a rose while another one had a criss cross hatch pattern. 

My team really liked these four. They told me that on the fourth one, one of the groups should be made up of bigger circles so that it wouldn't be so obvious that it was similarity.

Instead, I scrapped the fourth one and decided to change two of the four. I saw my set as an overall and saw no variety in it whatsoever. They pretty much all had the same size of circles so it looked boring to me. So I changed it to this set where it looks like there is more variety and asked my teammates of their opinion. They liked the set except for the fourth one which is why I made a slight change to the end circles.

I finished up the set with the necessary changes. Here is my final product.