Graphics Reference
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Table 7.
Your Reaction and Visual Answer: A Quick Drawing with Colors
You may now want to discuss the elements of design using an image of a city as a metaphor. You will transform your sketch in the
following projects related to other design elements. In a city metaphor, you may want to sketch some features of an urban landscape to vi-
sualize elements of design. Imagine and picture the sky over the city. What can we tell about the color of the sky in the late summertime
afternoon? How the color of the sky reflects in the windowpanes? Make a quick drawing of such a color study. Now, make another one,
this time about colors of a changing weather over the city. Also, you may want o draw a nighttime in a big city. The rain just stopped and
the cars leave lines of light reflected on the wet streets. Show the magic of this scene. What happens to the colors in your picture? Create
another quick drawing, this time with different hues.
Ambiguous Shapes
See Table 7 for Your Reaction and Visual
Answer.
An ambiguous shape is doubtful, uncertain, or open
to more than one interpretation. A favorite textbook
example of ambiguous space is a vase/profile, and
an old/young woman. Another classic example of
an ambiguous image is a drawing of a cube with
lines and squares. Our brain interprets the image
as a three-dimensional cube. However, our brain is
unsure where the closest part of the cube is. For many
people, after looking for a while, the image seems to
“jump” back and forth between two different cubes.
Shape and Form
All objects have shape or form. The shape of an
object looks flat and two-dimensional. Shapes
describe two-dimensional configurations; they
have no volume. In an outline drawing we only
show the shape.
