[ManuelFernandez]

Hi John and Kevin,

 

There is an official NMA discord and they have a perspective-notes channel. Check it out here!

[ManuelFernandez]

Sounds great!

[ManuelFernandez]

Congrats Joshua!

[ManuelFernandez]

**Building Your Personal Style | Part 1 w/ Bill Perkings, Ch 3.**

Since kindergarden we are being asked to recognize patterns.

This exercise was meant to look for similar shapes and different. Repeating patterns. It is the basis for a lot of concepts.

Learning to read, we escalate to other symbols – A B C D E…
Learning numbers, we look at 1 2 3 4 5…

We are building a vocabulary of symbols. Which are letters which are numbers. Next we learn about order.

Order/Value what is something compared to something else.

3 < 8 (the < becomes a symbol of “less than”) 5 > 2

Patterns
Symbols
Orders

This is the essence not just for reading, and math; but also for image making. Art however has its own language, characteristics and dynamics. A lot of artists have devoted time to breaking things down into harmonous basic principles like pre-mixed colors.

The important thing to keep in mind: visual language components do not have a predetermined *meaning* until you put other things next to it. A line is a line until you have a line and a curve.

Looking for patterns helps us finds rhythms and patterns into our images.

Identifying symbols to add to our visual library and create connections and connotations.

Value, creating dominance or subordination in our image making by making one thing bigger in relations to another.

**Note break: following along with instructor**

[ManuelFernandez]

**Building Your Personal Style | Part 1 w/ Bill Perkins**

chronological timeline
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**Notes**

**Intro to Visual Literacy**

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Flat mass/ shape

Forms/rendering of light vs shadown

Line / texture

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Visual arts should be treated as just another language – I see Math the same way – and it is used to communicate, feelings, and ideas like a written language with its own set of components and their relationships. So we gotta think of grammar in art? You don’t often put verbs before subjects or breaks too frequently, so think about that when you draw.

[Slide 2](https://i.imgur.com/rmw2Wcm.png)

As society has advanced, our modes of communication have accelerated. Along with new artistic directions and different methods. However, the principles have not changed.

With this information overload we gotta become more visually literate so we can communicate clearly and understand things.

recommendation: 1941 Maitland Graves “the Art of Color and Design” – he lists the elements of design, line, value, shape, proportion, color, direction, and texture.

**Important quote**

Bruce Block presented and wrote a book called **The Visual Story** (1988?) – he talks about line, tone, color, shape, space, rhythm, and movement.

**A Primer to Visual Literacy** (1973)

Visual elements are not the same as the medium. We are looking at dot, line, shape, direction, tone, color, texture, dimension, scale, and movement.

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**Workshop activities**

* The visual matrix
* Primaries of Design
* The Line, Mass, Form principles
* Visual components
* Line, tone, color, shape, space, rhythm, transitions
* Methods of Measure
* Major Key-proportion
* Minor Key-range of contrast

So part of the initial presentation is coming to the same words and understanding their definition.

For example in the subject of color, people might use the words

**hue :: chroma :: color**;

**value :: tone :: light**;

**saturation :: brightness :: brilliance**.

So we want to define our terms and create our own terminology of common ground. Funny enough we have the same dilemma or challenge in the Instructional Design or in socialist theory! Words have meaning!

This isn’t a how to make images but studying the components of image making!

[ManuelFernandez]

I second Cynthia Sheppard!

[ManuelFernandez]

Actually, an option that automatically creates a # for each class, so you can take a screenshot and select “share to social media” and automatically # the image with #GlennVilppuRenaissanceDrawing #RussianDrawing, etc would be fantastic. It would be so much like sitting in an actual class and looking at your classmate’s works and even help create a learning network.

[ManuelFernandez]

Also so the student can jump straight to the forum of the lesson. Make the transcript a “social learning” experience, with highlights, comments and maybe even images of other attempts placed at the location another person chose to highlight.

 

[ManuelFernandez]

You should do both, watch as you draw. Watch and take notes. And Draw after watching a video. That way you can reinforce what you have learned as you go through the series.

[ManuelFernandez]

Hi Joshua

Make it possible to mark certain videos for offline watching, they can expire just like netflix. Allow for notifications or reminders to keep working on a class, similar to Duolingo.

Hopefully an app that works for both iphones and ipads would be preferable.

Notes that can sync through icloud, or connect your google account to make notes and pictures taken from the app, available in google drive.

For classes that have homework, allow the student to take a picture of their work so they can attach it to the relevant class, maybe the metadata can save the date, so if a student comes back to the course they can see their progress over time.

 

[ManuelFernandez]

Would anyone happen to catch the name of the actual sketchbook he is using for the demos?

[ManuelFernandez]

@elizabethcarey it’s normally sepia ink.

[ManuelFernandez]

Hi, I don’t know if this happens only to me, but there is no transcript in this course.

[ManuelFernandez]

@calebjacobo I support this suggestion, I didn’t finish downloading the handouts. If not directly in the video lesson, how about a resources repository?

 

[ManuelFernandez]

@elskya

 

Watch the video on drawing benches and easels, you should work as large as you can to move your shoulder, I’d recommend a bench.

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/beginners-program-lesson-2-drawing-furniture-and-lights/

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