Composition


Composition is all about placing what you are drawing on the page where do you position it so that it will look interesting and exciting to illustrate the point let’s take three circles if we just palace them in the middle of the page it will not be very exciting if we take the same three circles and place them differently on the paged we have created a piece of artwork what becomes evident very quickly is the size arrangement and position of the circles the circles start to interact with each other and the edge of the page

Whatever you are drawing will have the same interaction so play around and become aware of what is happening in your artwork and do not be afraid of big white spaces space or the lack of space can be very exciting on a page.

A little more about composition early artists understood the use of space and they developed the golden triangle a three quarter method of composition i.e. they divided their work and layouts using this rule I have given you a simple graphic to illustrate this the three quarter could be further divided into more three quarter quarters but the same overall rule still applies

The famous painting of the last supper clearly demonstrates this rule and even our second circle arrangement uses this technique

Have a look at how Van Goch treats this composition three quarter one quarter again.
 
 

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