• Type begins as pictographs on walls.
  
• Large Illustrations become symbols over time, so that they are more compressed and easier to travel with. Egyptians have word signs (logorhythms) and syllabic signs (& #, ect). Symbols represent sounds. Cuneiform (wedge shapes) for writing are invented.
  
• Phenicians alter the cuneiform and made 22 signs (all consonants) and the reader filled in the vowel sounds as appropriate.
  
• Greeks borrow from Phenician right-to-left writing and 100 years later changed it from left-to-right. They also altered the names. (Alpha, Beta, etc)
  
• Latins adopted Greek letters and added vowels.
  
• Greek, Roman, and New Easterners created "official letters" and cursive, rounded lettering on unofficial letters.
  
• Chinese invented paper making and arabs adopted it an transfered idea to Europe.

COMMON VOCABULARY WORDS

Homework: Pick a font. (aka Times New Roman, Arial, etc.) and research the font and creater. Create a sketchbook page including your research, font, and labels (as above). Be sure to make the page represent the "character" of the font.

1. Convergence - parallel lines get closer further away and eventually intersect.
   
2. foreshortening - how lines change (become longer or shorter) when objects rotate in space.
   
3. size- - diminishing size creates depth
   
4. position & overlap

ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE
When things are futher:

• line weight is lighter
• less detail
• less color and more gray, dull colors

Plan Projection Method-Precise, blueprint, usually architectural perspective drawings.

Direct Perspective Method-"Make it up as you go / eyeball it"

Station Point-Position of viewpoint, eye level, horizon line, or height of station point.

Homework: Research 1, 2 and 3 point perspective. Find examples of each (perferably from magazines) and label the vanishing lines, vanishing points, and the eye level of each example

Assignment: Practice drawing basic 3D shapes in perspective on the grid. (A cone, a cube, a rectangle, a circle -[not a sphere])

Homework:Practice more structural drawings, do 4 each week.

PART A:
Extreme contrast of value / Subtle relationship of chroma. Single hue (primary) in 5-6 values/colors.

PART B:
Extreme contrast of chroma / Subtle relationship of value. Single hue (primary) in 5-6 values/colors.

PART C:
Extreme contrast of both value and chroma. Single hue (primary) in 6-8 value and chroma/color changes.

SUBJECT: Design a horizontal or vertical border design, SEMI-ABSTRACT rhythmic pattern with shapes lines and textures. Create spacial organization with feeling of movement and use the same design for all three parts.

TECHNIQUE: Gouache on illustration board. Each part should be on a piece of board [3'' x 11''] or [4''x 8'']