TEAM 1 Crit 4

What is the Visual Content of this image?
The visual content of this image is positive and negative or black and white image. I believe that it is more positive and negative because the two girls in the image both have different facial expressions. One is frowning and one is smiling. The two girls are the primary contributors to the space. Because the are twins and they are wearing similar dresses, they offer some symetery to the image against the blank background.

Name 3 Design elements that are prevalent
For me the main design elements consist of -
TONE: Lots of high contrast black and white in this photo
SHAPE: The shape of the 2 girls repeat and merges almost like a rorscauch test.
DIRECTION: The direction here is very vertical for the most part and runs down the page to collect on the bottom.

Name 3 Design principals in this image
BALANCE is an obvious one - though its interesting that the ground being off balance give it a sort of creepy feeling.
EMPHASIS: The emphasis is totally on the 2 girls in the foreground. Both exact except for their expressions.
UNITY is evident in the clothing, the merging of the two girls and the centering of the picture.

What type of color scheme is used?
Realtively few shades of gray are used here. But they are used effectively.
There are of course no colors.

What could be improved in this image to make it more visually effective?
As the others have mentioned, perhaps better centering. and a little more white space at the top. I have no problem with the bottom o f the picture though.

What wins on this page, draws you in, catches your eye?
The shape of the 2 girls sort of merged together draws me in. At fisrt look I thought they were siamese twins! Then the different expressions they have. It's amazing how much different the same face can look with just a slight change of the moutn or the eyes.

Project 4 Foil Package

So I've made good progress on project 4 and am now trying to get the art finished up for the foil package that the cards go into. My main task will be learning HOW to account for the foil layer and where it bleeds through or is partially covered by the ink. This will be the tricky part, since i can't really see what it's going to look like. But we'll see how it comes out...

I've also been working on the cards and trying to make progress on them as well. I have close to 20 of them done - so only 46 more to go! Don't know if I'll actually get them all done by the end of class. With luck I'll have more cards, the foil packaging and some of the poster/maps done.

OK that's it for this episode...