“The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.” — Erich Gamma The previous tutorial covered a general overview of the Negative Positive Composition and eight variations. This art design tutorial describes the Movement Device plus all the variations. Movement Composition In two-dimensional art, 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
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
Introduction to the 8 Compositional Devices
“Create with heart, build with the mind.” — Chris Jami, American poet, essayist, musician, singer, designer, lyricist, and existentialist philosopher Why Learning the Art of Composition Matters Our last series, Graphic Design Basic Elements, covered all the components for creating a painting, artwork, or graphic design. In this series, we cover a Continue Reading