Mary Jane Begin clarifies the best practices for developing any artistic or illustrated composition, covering compositional balance, movement, direction, unity, and format choices.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Getting the most out of this course
- Understanding concept and composition
- Editing and revising your work
- Framing your field of view
- A look back to influential illustrators
- Creating visual balance in an image
- Seeing in shape
- Designing the negative space
- Directing with lines
- Using borders, bleeds, and boxes
- Understanding color, texture, and proportion
- Patterns, clusters, and rhythm
- Composing with text
- Challenge: Incorporating text into your illustrations
- Solution: Text illustration
- Bringing it all together
- Using a limited palette in composition
- Consistency of style
- Unifying light
- Combining message and medium
- Challenge: Eight apple illustrations
- Solution: Apple illustrations
- Motion in pictures: The active composition
- Dynamic diagonals
- Illustrating storyboards
- Tracking the viewer's gaze
- Contrast and edges
- What is your focal point?
- Understanding point of view
- Creating depth with perspective
- Avoiding common pitfalls
- Challenge: Point of view
- Solution: Point of view
- Does size matter?
- Style and substance
- The six rules of composition
- Shaping the composition
- Picking the appropriate colors
- Establishing value and contrast
- Finalizing the color and composition
Taught by
Mary Jane Begin
