пятница, 4 августа 2017 г.

Composition

Now we will try to draw a Valentine's Day greeting cards.
The first one will be with a flamingo.


1. Take a sheet of paper and mark the required format with a rectangular area. Now's the fun part - we need to divide this area into 6 equal squares (if you have a square card) or rectangles (if you have a rectangular card). How can this be done? With a ruler, you might say. Yes, that's an option.
But best do it by eye - you're not going to use a ruler for drawing, are you?
What is this grid? This is called a compositional grid. It responds for the drawing to be beautiful.




 If I locate the flamingo in the bottom right corner, it will be a lot of empty space on the card, and it will not look nice. It is considered that the most "interesting" part should be located at the crossing of the lines. We can arrange our flamingo like this or like that.

Or this way, but in this case there is a lot of empty space out there, and it will look ugly. Our goal is to position the flamingo so that the space was filled evenly.

If not, then it is necessary to add something into the remaining space, some element. This may be either a part of the flamingo, that is, the foreground, or a part of the background.
Variations of composition:

I chose the composition, in which there will remain free space, which I'm gonna fill with something.


2. Next, we have to put the necks of our flamingos so, as to have shapes with curves, without any angularity.

3. Now draw a beak. It's easy to remember, it is enough to look at the photo of aliving flamingos. But since we do a cartoon flamingo, we will move from reality and make the beak with a bend as if the bird is smiling.

4. Similarly, according to the reference (original photo of a flamingo), check where the eyes should be located, because all the birds have them set differently.
5. Add a smooth transition from the form into the other form.
6. Add the missing element of the composition, to create a balance in the image.


Likewise, I created these pictures. Simple forms, a lot of simple forms, which are formed in a complex form.

Let's consider an option of drawing owls. The bottom third is filled with wings and body. The upper third is for the head and face. Right owl occupies two-thirds of the picture, and the left one takes one-third. This is called the rule of thirds when the composition is constructed by the grid 3 on 3. Also in the photographing, if you shoot landscapes, with a composition based on the sky, then the sky should take 2/3 of the composition. And if your composition is based on an interesting landscape, the sky will occupy only 1/3 of the pic. Everything is simple.


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