Week 6.2

When I was working on this project, the first thing I decided on was the color. I wanted to use green, since I don't often in my work. Once I found the green that I wanted, I chose an analagous color scheme that I wanted to evolve as the sequence progressed, gracefully gaining more colors and thereby enhancing the flow that the project was aiming for.

As for the actual composition of the pieces, I wanted one dominant feature in each frame - the green letterform - with each of the other, smaller elements having a different color. Only four elements didn't change: the large green letterform, the yellow-green ball, the small yellow ball, and the orange "Cheerio" that gave the set its name (I can thank my Typography class for that one). I was aiming for a sense of continuity when I chose to do that, and I think it came across well.

The big problem I had with this project was the last five of the ten frames (not pictured here). I guess I fell into a sort of creative slump at that point, because four of those compositions - the ones I designed last - came off as crowded after the first five, which had a generous use of negative space. That wasn't the case with frames 6-9, and because I'm so unhappy with how those turned out, I'm planning on editing them to fit better into the series. And since I already know what the problem is and have an idea on how to fix it, I don't feel the need to showcase them until I'm satisfied with the results.