Step 4 - Ideation
Your first ideas will almost always never be your best. Coming up with lots of ideas is the best way to end up with a final piece that is very well thought out.
Start out by looking at the pictures you found in the Research stage and trying to copy them. Of course we know you can't copy a picture for your final design but it doesn't hurt to practise drawing, so that later on, if you need to draw something similar, you have some background skills.
It is also important in this step to practise using mediums (different art materials) that you may want to use in your final piece. If you do all of your work in coloured pencil, then go to do your final piece in oil pastel, it is almost certain that you will be disappointed with how it turns out! If you want to paint your final piece, you must practise painting in your ideation.
In your art book spend at least four pages just scribbling and sketching ideas from your research. Your idea doesn't need to take up the whole page, each page can be a series of small pictures.
See the rubric for this task under the Assessment tab. This task is due at the end of Week 6, Term 3.
Start out by looking at the pictures you found in the Research stage and trying to copy them. Of course we know you can't copy a picture for your final design but it doesn't hurt to practise drawing, so that later on, if you need to draw something similar, you have some background skills.
It is also important in this step to practise using mediums (different art materials) that you may want to use in your final piece. If you do all of your work in coloured pencil, then go to do your final piece in oil pastel, it is almost certain that you will be disappointed with how it turns out! If you want to paint your final piece, you must practise painting in your ideation.
In your art book spend at least four pages just scribbling and sketching ideas from your research. Your idea doesn't need to take up the whole page, each page can be a series of small pictures.
See the rubric for this task under the Assessment tab. This task is due at the end of Week 6, Term 3.
What does Ideation look like?
Watch the video below to see what the ideation process looks like.
What do I need to include?
Your ideation should include:
- Images that you have copied (not traced)
- Images that are your own design that are similar to images from your research
- Tracing of fonts that would go well with the themes from the repertoire and that are easy to read (you are allowed to trace fonts on your final copy)
- Practise with different art mediums - for example, pencils, watercolours, chalk pastels, oil pastels, crayons, collage, charloal, graphic design using technology...