Project 5: Bookend

For this project, I decided to make a design that related to trees since I thought that a design of a tree would look very nice on a bookend. Especially, because I was working with wood.

during the first class period we had for this assignment, I decided to draw it out on my iPad to see how exactly I wanted my design to look like.

my design was going to compose of a rectangular piece with a cut rectangle close to the edge so that my tree could interlock in the cut. after this, I decided to incorporate a rectangular base for my tree so that it could fit better.

outside of class time, I worked on the design on my iPad, and on inkscape, but I was still not convinced on how it was looking so I decided to explore easel and straight up design it there.

I started translating my design to easel and used the rectangle there to make my base.

I got stuck in the tree part of my design because I didn’t know how to put it on easel so I kept exploring it until I found the tracing option which was perfect for that part of my design.