No Color? No Problem!

_____It has been quite a busy first semester of college. My finals were last week, but now I am free! Free to mindlessly play the Sims and build houses, adventure through the new Zelda game, take some outfit pictures, and bake-- I've already whipped up a batch of molasses cookies, frosting covered sugar cookies, and a few dozen butterscotchies! Paula Deen would be smiling so hard her mouth would fall off if she saw how much butter mother and I bought today.
_____Besides buying massive amounts of butter this Christmas break, I decided to take pictures of all* the art projects from my Design I class. I felt the need to document it in one ridiculously image-heavy post. That being said, shall we begin our marvelous journey through the world of design-y fun? Why yes, yes we shall.

_____The first-ish assignment of ours was to break apart a square so that you could still tell it was a square but it wasn't a square. I feel the need to say square one more time. Square. There. Yeah. So. That's about it for this one. Moving right along...

_____This was a word thing where we had to design the word in a) a font that described the word and b) made it kind of look like the word. It's hard to describe, but I feel that you citizens may know what I'm trying to say. I'm quite awful at describing things. I apologize. Anyway, I chose the word "eternity" and gave it a grandfather clock style font and circled the word around since eternity is like a circle and never ends. Yipee! Next...

_____For this assignment, we had to pick two shapes-- one organic (avocado) and one mechanical (a ship wheel) and repeat them in a manner that is oh-so-pleasing to the eye, nnnnnnyes. This was when I learned that my art teacher was also an avocado appreciator. Avocados are a fruit which more people really should know about, yes yes. Go pick one up at your local grocery store today. Smell it. Appreciate it. Consume it. Gain its powers of avocado-y goodness.

For this one we had to draw a random shape (mine's that Nike swoop gone cray cray) then draw a variety of textures around it. I did broken glass, hair, scales, and a little bit of rope to "rope it all in" (ahahah I am so witty, who's still got it? I've still got it. Aww yiss).

_____This assignment was to make a shape and give it some movement (so that it moves like Jagger?). If my dad was here, he would probably say something along the lines of, "I have seen the arrows, but there are no Indians."

_____This was one beast of an assignment. It was fun, but I had to work from the start of the class to the end of the class (*three hour long class) for like four classes to get it done. The assignment was to make a book cover while using the elements and principles. We didn't have to choose a book that actually existed, though I sorta did. This was probably my favorite assignment from the class, just because one of my dream jobs would be to illustrate book covers. If only, if only.

_____...Well, that concludes the reminiscing of my Design I projects for le first semester of college. I learned a lot from this class, which was really nice, especially since the last two years of art class I had in high school I felt like I did not learn as much as I could have. I suppose that's what college is for, eh? See you soon, citizens!

*PS) This does not include absolutely errrrrrything I did this semester. I still have one big final assignment which I shall post another day, but first need to figure out how to photograph properly since it is so long and skinny. Like a caterpillar. A stretchy caterpillar.