Visual Re-compositions with Dots, Lines and Shapes

Your human motion piece is so different across the two versions and I like that you were exploring so many elements. The dots and lines version, however, I felt was a little lacking. The stick figures seem random and purposeless without the context of the focus of the image. The second version is much more interesting to me because although you had few elements, they were better framed, made better use of the space, and were less literal.

I think my favorite one of the six compositions made was the ceiling fan made of dots, lines, and shapes. The composition came out well balanced, but different enough so that it looked asymmetrical on purpose. I also really like how different sizes and thicknesses of the black shadow part was used to symbolize the angle from which the picture was taken and how that affected what the blades looked like. However, for the composition of the ceiling fan with just dots and lines, I thought the piece felt a little out of balance for while the lines were nicely grouped together around the dots to provide a sense of structure, the whole composition felt like it was too far to the right of the frame. There wasn't enough on the left side of the frame to balance the composition as a whole and it made it feel somewhat off.

I also liked your composition of the hand holding the basketball with dots, lines, and shapes. I think the composition did what you intended for it to do and the two diagonal "shadow" lines definitely connect the hand more to the basketball. I also liked the idea you had with the ceiling and I think it definitely grounds the hand and the basketball by telling the eye not to move above those horizontal lines, but I think you placed the final horizontal line a little too close to the basketball. The rest of the image feels a bit trapped/squashed under the weight of those horizontal lines. But overall, I think all of you compositions are great!

I like that you had different focuses for your dot and line pieces vs your shape pieces. It brought a lot of variation to your project. I think that the dot and line pieces could have been a little less representational, and a bit more abstract. For things like the human motion and human emotion pieces, you could've used lines as a way to depict a sense of motion or a sense of apathy rather than producing the physical focuses themselves. I do like your contrast work in the shape pieces very much. They look very dynamic and draw focus to the correct things.