So perfect you'll go Crazy

When your teacher warns you that being a perfectionist in this course, could be a bad thing, you don't really believe her.
Until she tells you how 2 previous students became anorexic, and one ended up at the Royal Ottawa.
Apparently, under the pressures of the course, and trying to be "perfect", this student brought a knife to school. I was not told what they did with 'said' knife, but they ended up at the Royal.

Presentation is very important in every assignment we do. Work must be mounted on Black card paper. The paper must be scored with a knife so when you fold it you don't get all those bumpy fold lines.
A piece of tracing paper is taped over the artwork, with black masking tape.
And everything must be center properly. Perfect, perfect perfect. A whole grade letter could be dependent on presentation alone.
Being a perfectionist already, I have been a slave to re-touching and remounting my work to make it "Teacher perfect". Hopefully I won't go crazy.

Here are this weeks assignments.

This is the 2nd drawing assignment. Again, using 6 pencils to create 11 different gradients in one chart.
Again, I apologize for the lousy scan, but the lighter tones just don't show up that well.








The 2nd Typography assignment. To hand draw a short phrase, using an old style font. Also to design an "Illustrated Capital" letter, that relates to the text chosen.
I picked a Gothic font.
The text is from an Alice Cooper song. It's not the entire sentence, because it would not all have fit on the drawing board.
The sentence was "You thought you had your Mr Right, but he was really Mr Hyde." So I cut it down to 7 words.

Graphic design. This week the lecture was on negative space. We were given a list of words, all relating to something white. We chose 4 words, and created an interesting representation of that word.
Really had to push the ideas here. The teacher told us how he had already seen about a hundred white duck profiles on a black background, and to show him something different.
So I showed him the bottom of the duck.
The others are a Bride, a ghost, and a snowman.

The next is part of the same assignment. Create a design/composition with an interesting break up of positive and negative space. How many objects can you see in this figure?