PART #2 :: How to do your preparation work for Art & Design IGCSE 0400 - Paper 2 : Design Assignment

Hello art educators/teachers/students,

Continuing from the previous post, please click here -> PART 1  to know about the Design Paper with Reannes' work. 

In this post, I am going to attach Yi Ruth design preparation work and the final piece for your reference.

For our mock exam, Yi Ruth chose question number 8. She needs to develop a design based on the paper aeroplane she made. 

A few round of discussion with her and she ended up doing an accessory as the product. 

Remember (!) 

Design paper is all about what is your product you would like to produce, based on the subject matter(s) given/stated in the question requirement. 

Let us go through all Yi Ruths' preparation work and the final piece.

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From the prep one you can see the introduction, the subject matter studies, the design samples taking place and presented well in her piece. She also arranges the work in a nice composition and annotates each of the processes. Not only that, but she is also doing some minor mixed media with the grid paper over there. That goes to the experiment and exploration assessment criteria for IGCSE. Very well done!

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All the work above were painted by Yi Ruth. She did details with watercolour, pencil, pen and some adding with Chinese ink. At this development, you could see, she is trying to plan for a collection of accessories for woman. She limits her colouring choices - which is a smart choice! Her design product looks elegant and exclusive. 

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Referring to the prep three above, she breaks them into a technical drawing when she just focused only on the structures of the product. To make her work looks interesting, some of the drawings, she draws on the grid papers. That is giving the aesthetic value on her prep three pieces. I love to see how she improvised the designs by putting the product on the models. Models were painted by her using the mixed media technique. A well controlled mixed media indeed!

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Prep 4 is always, 2 or 3 outcomes (product) that you might choose for your final piece. Yi Ruth smartly arranged her focus ideas into only 2 and by focusing limited colours and close-up some part of the body and angles, giving the high impact in this piece. I love the attitude of experimenting with the media and also the object and at the same time, emphasising Composition in it. Liking the vibes of elegant elements in it as well. Brilliant!

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Finally, for the Final Piece, look at how Yi Ruth presents the whole thing in A2 size! Crazily amazing isn't it? By using only the white, black range of colours and focusing only gold tone for the product, the results turn out super amazing! She is only 16 years old and her quality of work beyond I could imagine! I graded her Design paper A*!

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To be continued. 

(with Tian Huey design work)

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