Design 2D: Texture

FINALLY! I GOT AN "A" WITHOUT A "MINUS"!! :)
The purpose of this project was to successfully use pencil to display different textures. (Each square is 6 x 6 inches).

SQUARE 1: ACTUAL TEXTURE
Materials can be items such as an old jeans pocket, sand or simulated such as tin
foil. You can combine materials that have different textures.

I came up with this little collage. I used felt fabric with an animal print on it for the background, rope, corks, pebbles, aluminun foil, parts of decorative flowers, and a huge plastic penny!

 SQUARE 2: SIMULATED TEXTURE
Use what you have explored with line, shape, and value to create simulated
texture. As you develop this square, you should focus on texture and not on the
object. The texture should be the entire square.

This was the most challenging!! However, I took the advice that my professors have been giving me lately to BE BOLD! I took a completely different approach than I normally would. I remember starting this square not being scared at all! I made very dark marks (well, to me they seem very dark) so that when you stand back, the objects actually look more three dimensional.

By the way....that rope took forever!!!

SQUARE 4: INVENTED TEXTURE
This will be an invented texture of your own, but still relate to the other texture
squares you have produced. This square should focus on tactile sensibility but may
involve some type of patterning.

 The purpose of this square is to keep all the shapes the same, but simply change the texture of them. I turned most of the circular shapes into buttons (which honestly are a lot less detailed than what I had to do in the first square), the pebbles into a sponge texture, the rope into ribbon, and the leaves into feathers.

SQUARE 3: ABSTRACTED TEXTURE
This square will contain the abstracted texture that draws upon the first 2 texture
squares. Develop those in a different way. Focus on essential elements of the
texture to arrive at your abstraction.

In this square, you can use your imagination to completely "abstract" the actual image. I turned the big penny combined with the cork from the first square into an engagement ring, the plant into a sunflower, and the pattern of the shape made by the pebbles into a snake!