also, if you guys have any tips on how to compose a piece or any composition tutorials I would be eternally grateful. eternally.
also, sketch here is that painter I currently adore.
http://pringleart.com/
11.06.2012
more stuff! and now back to work!
also, if you guys have any tips on how to compose a piece or any composition tutorials I would be eternally grateful. eternally.
also, sketch here is that painter I currently adore.
http://pringleart.com/
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I've been continually looking to Jaime Jones (artpad.org) for compositional inspiration. His work isn't just extraordinary in the arrangement of shapes and value, either, he's composing with a keen eye for color as well. He's a great contemporary dude for compositional stuff.
ReplyDeleteOther than him, really spend some time looking at Craig Mullins' work. It's completely stellar.
Or for some oldies but still fantastic, look at Jean Leon Gerome or John William Waterhouse.
Composition is the arrangement of visual information, make sure it's serving the purpose of the image. There are a lot of "rules" that should be considered, but as Mullins would say, they are incomplete. You have your basic ideas but they are not infallible, everything has an exception.
I would say the general idea is try to make them be about an idea. If the image is about imbalance, how do you communicate that, if it's about fortitude, what arrangement of shapes and tones and colors can communicate that? If it's about loneliness and vulnerability, how do you say it? Try composing your images with squares and other simple shapes.
Other than that--as far as dynamism, because I know you've used that word before, that's simple: use diagonals. Put the horizon line at a diagonal, make things coming in and out of frame, put some lines in your image that keep the viewer spinning around inside it, make it circular. Experiment!