"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way—things I had no words for." Georgia O’Keeffe Before proceeding to the second lesson, take a moment to step back into the energy. For a refresher, click > Basic Design Descriptions and Shapes and Basic Directions In this post, we will focus on incorporating Continue Reading
Lesson One for Building Art Skill
”Art is the stored honey of the human soul." – Theodore Dreiser Before proceeding to the first lesson, take a moment to refresh your memory. Revisit > Basic Design Descriptions and Shapes. Our First Marks: Line, Plane, Tone In the first building skill post, we introduced the method of building skills through small work explorations. We are going Continue Reading
Art & Illustration Learning Exercises
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." — Scott Adams This post introduces a series of exercises that accompany the Graphic Design Basic Element Series to help develop skill and artistic design competency through the repetitive practice of each basic art element. Exercises to Deepen Skill Through this Continue Reading
Pattern in Composition and Eight Variations
"It has been said that everything everywhere affects everything else. This may be true. Or perhaps the world is just full of patterns." - Terry Pratchett The previous tutorial covered a general overview of eight variations of the Two Dominant compositional device. This art design tutorial describes the Pattern Compositional Device plus all Continue Reading