Composition

Heyyyyy. I'm currently working on my portfolio and my earphones are breaking yay. Also watching Big Bang Theory! Sheldon is so awesome. But otherwise, I've been taking life drawing at community college and drawing random people at Barnes & Noble and Princeton and animals at the zoo. And then random people come up to me and stare at my drawings. Or worst, they walk by but they're uncomfortably close as they move their head so their eyes are constantly on my sketchbook. Did that make sense? kfajoiwpejr. Or sometimes they talk to me. Argh social situations.

Anyway, just a quick post on composition. I had an awesome art foundation teacher freshmen year. She taught me about 60% of what I know. Here are her rules on composition.

1) focal point - have one focal point, be most interesting, either high contrast or complexity, should be off center
2) diagonal lines - create a sense of visual movement, can have implied or real diagonals
3) sides - draw things that come off at least 3 sides of the paper, draw information all the way to the edges, engage all the space, draw large
4) corners - all the corners need to be different and interesting, only one corner should be empty, need moments of silence to process, at last 3 need to be filled

This simplifies things, right? Basically, you want to fill up the page, have lots of diagonal things and one super interesting focal point. It should be the star of the show. Also, don't make it too crazy. Only the focal point should be really complex. Everything else should kind of lead into it.

I think this is it. Gahh... this was really short. I'll make the next one longer. But right now, I have to make a powerpoint about Charles LeBrun. Look him up. It's really cool.