Mandala

Mandala
This mandala includes all 4 of the traditional elements: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. The water below goes deep down along with the earth. Where the land meets the sea, there exists a thick layer of mud. Some of the water evaporates into the air, making the clouds. The earth, heated with fire, shows sturdy hard metals. Where the fire mixes with the air, a large, thick cloud of smoke arises. Within the center of it all is a powerful ball of magma
Mandala Structure
The Mantic and Structure layers have been moved in front of the Body layer. The mantic layer i the Rule of Threes, and the structure layer consists of a patterned structure of a hexagon.

Color (Mandala)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/186492031@N03/49623412231/in/dateposted-public/
This piece is about color theory. The top left shows colors sorted by the brightness of their greyscale value. The top right is an example of simulated transparency. Actual semi-transparency could be made, but this is an approximation from the actual thing. The bottom right shows a difference in brightness. Finally, the bottom right has two squares with “inverted” colors. Inverting colors changes the hue, saturation, and value all to the opposite values.

Line Art

Line Art
This is line art, where lines are taken for a metaphorical walk. The left column shows a line, shapes, curve, double curve, and triple curve using only pen tool. the middle column is a base for the right column, which is a recreation of five lines. The top line is a curve with very few anchor points. The second from the top has a special tracing to it, like an owner walking a dog. The middle row uses “blend” to make dense lines along the path. The fourth row uses an art brush with a custom line as the brush type. The bottom row uses a scatter brush to make a crazy zig-zag-like line.

Euclid

Euclid
The euclidian exercise for the Mandala project. With only a compass and a straightedge (or for digital art, a circle tool and line tool), many euclidian shapes and lines can be made. Shown here are a perpendicular bisector, square, hexagon, and tangent. With a square or a hexagon, lines, and circles, the bottom two patterns can be made.

Blackbird Sketches

13WaysBrainstorm
This is a colorized version of my ideas for Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird. This was the first idea on how to order things.
bnw13Ways
This is a version of my ideas for Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird, but with less colors. We are only allowed to use black and white for this project. so this was how I was planning on making it.

Some of the rules I established are:
-No breaking outside boundaries
-Limit total fonts to under 10
-Limit fonts per square to 3 or fewer

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