For the first day of the animation elective, we worked on understanding texture and mark making. I made two sheets where I drew different textures like brick, wood and other surfaces. On the first sheet I could only use lines, so I had to think about how the direction and thickness of the lines could show the texture without using shading. On the second sheet it was the opposite, I could only use tone and no outlines, which made me focus more on light and dark areas to show form. Doing both helped me see the difference between line and tone and how they can be used in different ways. We also did a group task on a third sheet where we were given a question and had to draw our responses, then pass it to other groups to add to. This was more quick and creative, and it made me think faster and respond to other people’s ideas. Overall this task helped me improve how I show texture and will help later when I add detail into my animations.
