Hey everyone! Here are my quick thumbnails, i did them on the wacom tablet, for the extra practice and feel for digital drawing, there fore their a little sloppy. Excuse the first 4, I had no idea how to fix my wacom's calibration system, so my room mate helped me install the driver, but other than that, i tend to struggle with thumb nails and composition, any exercises to recommend besides this one? I would like to tackle this weakness before sophomore year! Thanks!
2 comments:
Hey Lexi, I'm glad you're exploring value with some of these--it'd be great if you could push that more in the future--focusing on shadows/values/shapes often helps you see better what's going on in a scene and helps you compose it. (using charcoal or a softer brush would help, so you don't have to deal with tiny lines)
It's good that you want to practice with thumbnails and composition--idea/concept is the most important part of a piece, but composition is the 2nd, and EVERYTHING else comes after that. :) It looks like most of your compositions here are pretty central-based around a single object. It would probably help to pull out your focus so we see more of the room, that way you have more elements to work with. Figure out a focus for your compositions--what do you want us to look at, what's the most important part? It's easy to put your focus in the middle--but more interesting to crop it off-center somewhere, and use composition to lead your eye to it. Diagonal lines create movement, lots of horizontal and vertical make things feel static and less interesting. Triangles are a strong compositional shape. Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" is a commonly used example of a great triangular composition. Look at some of your favorite artists and study what they do in their compositions! Then keep practicing!
ok thanks Kali! I'll have to do some research :-) and practice
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