Week 1

Surface

Four images demonstrating effect of image placement on the page. The clowns used in these images will make several more appearances.

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Week 2

Making Depth Happen

Four images exploring different means of creating depth. Again, the clowns are used.

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Week 3

Using Depth

Another four-image set, this one investigating the use of depth for various spatial effects.

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Week 4

Surface and Space Together

These three pieces use the relationship between surface and space to create dynamic images.

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Week 5

Scale and Size

A four-image group that examines the effects of differing scales and proportions. One clown makes an appearance.

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Week 6

Shape

Six images exploring the visual properties of shape.

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Week 7

Line

Four images that examine different types and uses of line.

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Week 8

Movement

Another group of four images, this one looking at different ways of conveying motion (or a lack thereof). More clowns.

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Week 9

Light

A three-image set exploring the behavior of light.

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Week 10

Components of Color

These six images investigate the fundamentals of color theory.

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Week 11

The Structure of Color

Three images that delve further into the interplay between colors. The image in this set that is classified as "Pointillist" is actually a simple halftone, but the effects of and principles behind the two techniques are nearly identical--halftoning is simply much less labor-intensive, though it is also more mechanical-looking.

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Week 12

Uses of Color

A pair of images that illustrates the difference between local color and atmospheric color. The same robot as used in Week 10. Note that the local color image does indeed have shading but that it is mostly shading by brightness, not by hue.

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Week 13

Unity and Variety, Meaning and Communication

A final eight images that explore logical organization of content in an image. Also, the triumphant return of the clowns.

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This concludes my portfolio for Fundamentals of 2D Design, Spring Semester of 2002. Thank you to Professor Caren Canier and my fellow students for a challenging and engaging class.