My element is Manganese, number 25 on the periodic table. Manganese is fused with other medals to increase their durability and to help them keep a polish. This is because manganese is an extremely hard metal and does not scratch easily. It is also used to help fuse other metals together.
My design is a shield with two arrows crossing it. The arrows represent manganese's ability to fuse other elements, and the shield represents its durability. To take My project to the final print I redesigned the arrows to be double headed. so they point in all directions.
I personally like my final product, I feel the design transferred well and is interesting to look at.
If I did this project again I would have made my design smaller so that you could tell what is is more easily.

My element is numeber 53, Iodine! My element is used to protect people from radiation, and it is a result of creating saltpeter from seaweed. My idea was to include its origin, seaweed, and it's uses, to help prevent radiation, that's why I made the seaweed and the nuclear plant. At first, I wanted to include its color, but I felt that wouldn't be very clear. I very much enjoyed this project, mostly because we had a lot time to do it and because it wasn't a primarily drawing project. I you were to change the project, the only thing I would change is to give us a bit more time to research what we want to draw.

A) I think negative space helps artists identify the back ground from the foreground, and think of them as separate things instead of one picture.
B) 1. In the cutouts, the negative spaces color changed. 2. In the stool drawing i made the foreground positive and the background negative.
C) It helps because you can think of the drawing as two layers.
D) Yes, since it gives the artist a better understanding of foreground and background.