Materials, Processes, and Ideas
Introduced| English |
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| materials/məˈtɪərɪəlz/ |
| processes/ˈprəʊsesɪz/ |
| ideas/aɪˈdɪəz/ |
The decision triangle
- The CED names three working components: materials 材料 (substances), processes 过程 (actions), ideas 想法 (concepts).
- Every work is a triangle: what it is made of, how it is made, why.
- Drawings happen where the three meet.
In the CED triangle, the actions of making are the ____.
Processes are the actions.
Let one corner lead
- An idea can demand a material (rust drawings about decay); a material can spark an idea.
- Change one component at a time to see its effect — the fair-test habit.
- Charcoal on torn paper and fineliner on film are different statements.
Material, process, or idea?
Sort each item into the CED component it names.
You should change several components at once to work efficiently.
Change one at a time to see its effect — a fair test.
Select all three CED working components.
Materials, processes, ideas — not frames.
Name all three
- Name all three in your written evidence — scorers look for the connection explicitly.
- This exact vocabulary comes straight from the CED glossary.
- The link between them is what "synthesis" will later reward.
The physical substances used to make a work are its ____.
Materials = substances.
Match the component to its question.
What, how, why.
Choosing a material at random "because it looks cool" wastes the strongest tool you have. Every material and process should have a reason you can state — that reason is half of a good written-evidence sentence.
Idea: forgetting. Material: graphite that smudges. Process: draw a face, then rub it half away, redraw fainter. The three lock together — nobody needs the caption to feel the memory dissolving.
Every drawing is a triangle of materials, processes, and ideas. Let one corner lead, change one at a time, and name all three in writing — the tighter their link, the closer to synthesis.