Exercise: Sketching 101 (2.28.19)

Sketching basics and magazine grids

Both magazine spreads’ left side was a large image/visual while the right side was mostly text.

1st: The gutters were the smallest sections in the grid. There were not a lot of vertical grid lines on the left side since the focus was a large image. The red rectangle surrounding the text extended slightly past the grid lines for the actual paragraphs. The two pages were tied together mainly through the repeated color palette.

2nd: The small lines of text, such as the author’s name, as well as the gutters in between sections of text were the smallest sections. The left side with the visual piece contained a lot of rectangles and squares (which I could not accurately depict by hand), while the right side had width-wise uneven and longer rectangles. Some of the grid lines extended through both pages and were usually lines for text on both pages. I liked how both pages had the recurring element of short vertical purple lines to tie them together even more.