Shapes & Patterns

We are required to create a drawing based on the design elements and principles that we learnt in class. The picture below shows the drawing I created for this tutorial exercise :

There are several things that I learned through the lecture on Design Elements and Principles were applied into this drawing.

Design Elements

There are a few design elements that I used in this drawing. One of them is lines. Lines can be in various appearances. They can be in curve, straight or even irregular shape. In this drawing, I used a lot of lines to form various shapes and objects. For example, curve lines to form the rainbows and a combination of straight and curve lines to form the piano in the middle of the drawing. Besides that, the shape elements were also applied in this drawing. Shapes were formed when a line encloses an area. The shape that I used most in this drawing is circle. I used circles of various colours to create the feeling of happiness and joy in this drawing. 

Design Principles

While the design principles that I applied in this drawing included emphasis, harmony and repetition. Emphasis creates a focal point in a drawing. The largest circle in the drawing was being emphasized by adding two shadow dancing along with the music in the surrounding. Other than that, I created harmony for this drawing by using repetition and rhythm of the colourful circles and most rainbow colors complemented each other perfectly. Finally, it can be obviously seen that repetition principle was widely used in this drawing. Repetition creates rhythm. Repetition doesn't necessary has to be exact duplication, it can also be in the form of near duplication or duplication with variety. Therefore, I repeatedly using circles of different sizes, colours and slight different in the patterns.