When I make my compositions I like to start out with a few sketches to get me started. It provides me with some options and the convenience to be able to pick and choose what I like verses what I don't like. This first sketch is one that I decided against. It rings empty for me. But I included it because there are things I like about it. It is grounded because of the two shapes on the bottom, yet your eye is drawn upward by the thin shape on the top of the frame. i also like the element of three I didn't enlarge this sketch because I felt it was unresolved.
This is the sketch that I chose to enlarge. I love to make long, whimsical characters. My favorite thing is that even though the "characters" aren't really characters, they are abstract shapes, the majority of people will identify them as characters. It is so interesting that people will try to relate anything and everything to the human form. Just because these little guys have a mouth shape they suddenly are a character.
Here is the final image that I presented to the class. My classmates rotated it in almost every direction, but this is the way I think that is works the best. The idea behind this design is ancient asian artists used positive and negative space in their portrayal waves.
This is my favorite. Even though the majority of the composition is white, the viewer gets a dark feeling. I created motion from left to right by trying to unify the angle of the implied diagonal line that reached toward the dark area on the right. This gives the composition a dark overall tone, because the lines point toward the dark.
This was my least favorite. This was the best direction for the composition, although it started 180 degrees in the other direction. While I was making it I couldn't see to make it resolved. I feel like it is still just teetering around, not sure what to do. Maybe another color could have saved it.
When I make my compositions I like to start out with a few sketches to get me started. It provides me with some options and the convenience to be able to pick and choose what I like verses what I don't like. This first sketch is one that I decided against. It rings empty for me. But I included it because there are things I like about it. It is grounded because of the two shapes on the bottom, yet your eye is drawn upward by the thin shape on the top of the frame. i also like the element of three I didn't enlarge this sketch because I felt it was unresolved.
This is the sketch that I chose to enlarge. I love to make long, whimsical characters. My favorite thing is that even though the "characters" aren't really characters, they are abstract shapes, the majority of people will identify them as characters. It is so interesting that people will try to relate anything and everything to the human form. Just because these little guys have a mouth shape they suddenly are a character.
Here is the final image that I presented to the class. My classmates rotated it in almost every direction, but this is the way I think that is works the best. The idea behind this design is ancient asian artists used positive and negative space in their portrayal waves.
This is my favorite. Even though the majority of the composition is white, the viewer gets a dark feeling. I created motion from left to right by trying to unify the angle of the implied diagonal line that reached toward the dark area on the right. This gives the composition a dark overall tone, because the lines point toward the dark.
This was my least favorite. This was the best direction for the composition, although it started 180 degrees in the other direction. While I was making it I couldn't see to make it resolved. I feel like it is still just teetering around, not sure what to do. Maybe another color could have saved it.
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