”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
One Dominant Composition and Seven Variations
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." --Neil Gaiman is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. In the previous introduction to the primary 8 Compositional Devices, we learned the terms for all eight, with a total of 64 composition possibilities. Continue Reading
Anyone Can Create Art: Doodles, Scribbles, Lines and Color
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” —Lao Tzu All it Takes is Desire In my free online Graphic Design Basic Element Series, in lesson four you learn how simple lines can be applied in various directions with colorful opaque colors. This combination offers some of the first elements Continue Reading