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How to solve the paper

- Read the questions carefully. Most of the times questions are tricky.
- Try to give as much details as you can.
- Emphasize the main things you want to show.
- Be clear about your idea.
- It is a game of difference .The papers is simple. Anyone can solve them. But they don't want
anyone, they want designers .So be a designer.
- Before exams get fully immersed into the designing environment so that you may think only
design.
- Observe the details. Imagine new things out of them.
- Solve the visual reasoning questions.
- Do color theory in detail, right from history, to the significance of colors.
 

Notes for preparation

Drawing has several elements such as points , lines, textures, patterns, shapes, colors, mass,
space etc. Drawing can be made with the perspective of observation, imagination and memory
taken together . All these three perspectives are required for the designing exams. So try to
explore everything .Even a small button can be used in the designing. So observe every thing
which comes into your vision. Here are some of the designing elements which may help to put
your imagination on paper.
 

Forms
Square, rectangle, circle, triangle are the basic shapes.

1.Line-can be straight, curves, zig-zag.

2.Shapes and there meanings :-

-Circle gives the feeling of protection and infinity.

-Square gives the freeling of honesty and equality.

-Traingle gives the feeling of conflict and action.

 
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Colors Theory
Color Wheel

Primary Colors :which are basic colors.

-Primary Colors of light are Red , green and Blue.

-Primary Colors of pigment are Red , Blue and Yellow.

Excersice: Mix all 3 primary colors together in equal proportion.It forms white .

Secondary Colors: Made by mixing any two primary colors.

-Secondary Colors are Violet , Orange and Green.

-Suppose a picture is painted in different tints and shades of only one color , the color scheme is
known as monochrome colors. Ex.

Excersice: Mix all 3 primary colors together in equal proportion.It forms grey .

-Shades-Going from Top to bottom the darkness is adding in the color(hue).This is Shade of
Pink.

 
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-Tints-Going From Top to Bottom the whiteness is adding in the color(hue).This is Tint of Pink.

The above Tints and Shades are the monochrome colors of pink.
 

Famous Artists and their Artworks

Here are some of the famous painters and their artworks.

Leonardo da Vinci
1.Mona Lisa
2.The Last Supper
3.Madonna and Child
4.The Virgin of the Rocks

Salvador Dali 

1.The persistence of Memory

2.Crucifixion
3.The Sacrament of the Last Supper

Henri Matisse

1.Chapel of the Rosary in Vence

2.The Snail
3. Beasts of the sea
4. Creole Dancer
5. La Fougere Noire

 
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Pablio Piccasso 

1.Three Musician
2.The Three Dancers
3.Self Portrait : yo Picasso

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1.Bathers
2.The Swing

Henri Rousseau

1.The Sleeping Gypsy

2.The Happy Quarter
3.Jungle with the lion

Vincent Van Gogh

1.The Starry Night  
2.Wheatfield with Crows  
3.Sunflowers  
4.The Potato Eaters 

Colors and their meanings

 

 
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Rainy Season

 
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Winter Season

Summer Season

 
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Spring Season

Sunrise

Sunset

Corporate Identity
The Image of various corporate identities are provided below.It can be
1.Uniform
2.Books/Brouchers
3.Lorries/buses
4.visiting cards
5.Letter heads
6.logos
7.packaging
8.Event flags
 

 
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Abbreviations
CMYK-cyam magenta yellow and black
RGB- Red green blue
jpeg-joint photography expert group
gif-graphical interface file
png‐portable network graphics 
dat‐data file 
exe‐executable file 
tiff‐tagged image file format 
psd‐photoshop document 
targa‐Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics 

 
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Symbols and Signs

Here are some of the basic symbols/signs with their names.These are essential for GDPD
and PGDPD as well.
 

 
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