Design – decide on a theme for your design (refer to your Design brief)
Research & Investigation –
- In your sketchbook draw at least 3 high quality research drawings related to your theme
use a range of media: pencil, coloured pencil, oil pastel, chalk pastel, paper collage, pen & ink, watercolour etc
- Choose an area from your first drawing to look at in more detail ( you can enlarge a section that contains interesting texture or pattern, make a positive/negative drawing to block in shapes or you can stylise the image or part of the image
- visual aesthetics — using shape, proportion, scale, colour, contrasts, texture, and combinations of materials, techniques and/or technology creatively
- Repeat the same step with your second& third drawing.
- Try ‘drawing’ with different media i.e use wire to create a line drawing or the sewing machine to ‘draw’
- Collect market research images related to your outcome and design brief i.e architectural designs, fashion/ textile designs/glassware and paste into your sketchbook.
- Unit Assessment Pass or Fail-Self Assess your work using the tick box list in your sketchbook to see if you have fulfilled the necessary outcomes. Your teacher will then check your work and give you a pass or fail.
Development Ideas
For your development work you must show at least three different ideas that come from your research imagery. You must carefully read the design brief to ensure that your design fulfils all the stipulations of the brief in a creative and thoughtful way.
- Create a variety of development ideas on paper or in your sketchbook
- Take your two strongest ideas to develop further
- Unit Assessment Pass or Fail -Self Assess your work using the tick box list in your sketchbook to see if you have fulfilled the necessary outcomes. Your teacher will then check your work and give you a pass or fail.
- Then for your Added Value Unit you will take the strongest idea from the two and develop that further still using drawings and samples to show your thinking and problem solving until you come out with a final design that has been fully developed with all design issues thought through carefully.
- Write an Evaluation of your work.
- All your work for this idea will be laid out on either 2x A2 pages or 1xA1 for sending to SQA.
- You will then make your Final Idea into a 3-D outcome which will be photographed for sending to the SQA along with your Development sheet and your Evaluation.
To Do List
Expressive – decide on which area of the ‘My Environment’ theme you will focus on for your expressive unit i.e Portrait, Landscape/Seascape, Still Life, Built Environment and think of a narrative behind your work (what is the story you are trying to tell).
Research & Investigation –
- In your sketchbook draw at least 3 high quality research drawings of individual objects related to your theme
use a range of media: pencil, coloured pencil, oil pastel, chalk pastel, paper collage, pen & ink, watercolour etc
- Collect photos that you have taken related to your theme
- Unit Assessment Pass or Fail-Self Assess your work using the tick box list in your sketchbook to see if you have fulfilled the necessary outcomes. Your teacher will then check your work and give you a pass or fail.
- Start combining a collection of subject matter to create initial development of media and composition
- you must show at least three different compositional ideas/ groups that come from your research imagery.
- Research other artists who work in the same genre you have chosen and print out images of their work to put in your sketchbook
- Unit Assessment Pass or Fail –Self Assess your work using the tick box list in your sketchbook to see if you have fulfilled the necessary outcomes. Your teacher will then check your work and give you a pass or fail.
Development of Final Solution – Value Added Unit (sent to SQA)
- Then for your Added Value Unit you will take the strongest idea from the three compositional images. Develop this further using a range of media and different techniques. Make sure you consider a number of compositional ideas using both portrait and landscape formats.
- Write an Evaluation of your work
- All your work for this idea will be laid out on either 2xA2 page or 1xA1 or for sending to SQA.
- You will then create your Final Solution on A2 paper which will be sent to the SQA along with you Value Added Development sheet and Evaluation.