Blog 8- Emphasis, Contrast, and Detail

Color Study

This week in class we talked about Emphasis, Contrast, and Detail. 

Emphasis 

Emphasis is the purposeful development of dominant characteristics. It creates hierarchy, creating focal points by artwork, furniture, lighting, etc. It creates a feeling of drama, balance, and personality of space.  

Emphasis can be shown in interior design with color, texture, lighting, furniture, with a view, and architectural details.  

Contrast 

Cohesiveness is important in interior design, but too much blending creates a flat space. Contrast adds balance, by placing objects with opposing characteristics. Contrast uses different colors, shapes, sizes, materials, textures, or styles.  

Details 

Icing on the cake to make the space more interesting and personal. Small attention to details helps to make a space feel more thought out, homey, and less stark.   


This Week's Sketch- Analogous

This week’s reading was chapter 8 of Sketching Interiors, which is titled Interior Rendering With Markers. It talks about how to do quick sketches using markers. When drawing it is important to create contrast using different values and colors. This helps to create a dynamic sketch implying the illusion of depth. The chapter continues to say textures help to create realism but are often hard to achieve. Volume is important, which can be portrayed through value, line weight, and quality.  

When it comes to rendering interiors both color and light are key factors. Light affects how we see color, and color is defined by hue, value, and chroma. Hue is the basic are the basic colors, such as red, blue, and yellow. Value is brightness or darkness of the hue. Chroma is the intensity or purity of the hue, also known as saturation.  

Later the book goes to talk about color schemes. Four main color schemes are monochromatic, analogous, complementary, and triad color scheme. There are also different color combinations, such as limited, emphasis, and multiple, which are all used for various reasons that create different effects.  

Lastly, the four different types of drawing styles, which are basic, modern, classical, and natural style.  

 






 


Comments

  1. Bethany Huizenga INT270March 15, 2024 at 8:09 PM

    you gave a very nice brief summary of what we learned this week! i also loved that you had a little write up about what you read in the chapter. It was very well done! Also you color project is very good! I love the room you chose

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  2. KatieMarch 15, 2024 at 9:49 PM

    I loved how you described completely what we learned in class without going into too much detail. Your sketches are also really well done.

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  3. Eliana JohnsonMarch 16, 2024 at 7:32 PM

    I love how concise your notes are while also nicely capturing everything that we have learned. Love your renderings as well

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  4. Professor VanderNoordaaMarch 18, 2024 at 2:50 PM

    Well done! 50/50

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