Composition Studies

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After getting tons of critiques that I didn't know composition I decided to tackle it and keep a notebook of my progress.

I finally decided to post it to see if anyone else might find it helpful.

Most of the lessons are from Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti and Framed Inkby Marcos Mateu-Mestre with a few other lessons here and there by other artists, I'll try to post their names as I remember them, to give credit where it is due.

I know most of the drawings are simple, and intentionally so. I wanted to focus on the composition rather than the drawings so mistakes in one wouldn't confuse the other.

I'll post more as they are finished.

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[Sebastien Bailard]

Try working in 3 or 4 values*, using a few sharp and blunt soft pencils**. You can do lots of little thumbnail studies this way, of master works and churning through your own ideas for abstracts and realistic pieces.

***If you're going to do an underdrawing first, make your marks light, so that they're easy to erase or don't need to be erarsed.


* Quoting Loomis - Creative Illustration
** Jack Hamm - Drawing Scenery
*** Quoting Trinka Margua Simon - The Art of Compostion

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Haven't had a chance to post anything in awhile

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I'm reposting some of the images because they weren't visible

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Most of the ideas here are from Understanding Movies

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Rules of the dominant

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Distance from the camera

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close framing

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Angles are judging you

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Density- the number of objects in a scene
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