Composition

Mastering Composition

djkitt — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:33:02 GMT

I'm currently reading a book called:

Mastering Composition - techniques and principles to dramatically improve your paintings. by Ian Roberts.

Northern Light Books

This is a great book for anyone looking to improve their composition skills. I've learned a lot from it so far. There are great exercises in it that are recommenced to do everyday, just like music practice, that help you to understand composition, both as a whole and in shapes and values. The book breaks the mastery of painting into component parts so that you practice in the most effective ways. I highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks (or doesn't think) their composition skills need work (like myself), or for anyone who doesn't understand it's importance in painting. This book is not just for beginners but for seasoned painters as well as Mr Roberts gets into some complicated stuff.

Enviromental 01 : Composition & Perspective [Open Class]

koshime — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:17:22 GMT

Hi Folks,

Over the course of a year, I hope to help share and build upon my existing skills as a Enviromental & Transport artist by helping direct monthly based topics.

Each segment will be run for 1-2 months, depending on participation and complexity. The classes will be FORUM run and self-directed.

HOUSE RULES

What this means is:

Each individual will form their own curriculum
Each participant will search, gather and share their understanding of the topics
The class will the review, discuss and apply the lessons of these topics within an APPLIED lesson
Every participant is free to provide input, feedback and critique to one another.
Please respect and listen to one another's opinion. Yo do not have to agree to it, but allow each person to say their peace
FLAMING will not be tolerated, and if a discussion becomes heated, the said participants will be asked to kindly carry that discussion elsewhere
That said, let us begin

Suggested Curricula:

Basics: Perspective in greyscale ONLY

Week 1 - Perspective examples, and theory

Week 2 - Perspective exercises and feedback

Week 3 - Applied perspective to a theme (eg. historical landscape)

Week 4 - Feedback and Paintovers

Week 5- recap

Week 6 - Composition examples and theory

Week 7 - Composition exercises

Week 8 - Applied Composition to a theme (eg. fantasy and sci fi themes)

Week 9 - Feedback and Paintovers

Week 10 - Recap

VP missplaced?

freiheit — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:21:26 GMT

After going through Fen Zhu's wonderful shot design for environement video tut, I finaly lauched myself in the making of an illustration with strong background. It said placing one of two vanishing point with in the picture added more punch to it, but I got as a critic over at conceptart.org that I should have done that and that it's not working\wierd\a perspective mistake. I'd like a second opinion on this, fist because I suck at background and wouldn't know better, and second because I think it looks just fine :(

what do you guys think? and if it is fuggly...is there a way I could ease my mistake with out restarting the whole thing?

Enviroment & Props - Discussion

koshime — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:24:28 GMT

Feel free to discuss, ask or suggest topics for each class and curricula here

Landscape Composition Guidelines

Baron Impossible — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:05:15 GMT

If you haven't already, you may want to check out these landscape composition guidelines by Johannes Vloothuis ~

Composition Guidelines

excitement!

NeMz — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:42:24 GMT

if anyone has any tips that could help me add some excitement into my character designs i would be greatful. all of my characters seem static, like they are posing for a photo and i would like them to have some more dramatic effect. my email is dannycashman@btpenworld if you would rather email me surgestions, and if u r intressed in seeing any of my characters ill send you them as i have not digitaly painted any of them as i am not happy with the picture. thanks :)

Vanishing point!?

Phreak — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:24:47 GMT

Anyone got tips/secrets to share on how to implement single/multiple vanishing points in work? I think that's why I usually slack off on backgrounds/background angles.....

Hints? Comments? Thanks!

Top 10 Tips for Painting A Composition

fabledgoat — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:52:02 GMT

Since no-ones posted anything here yet I thought I'd search the internet and see if I could find a good set of tips on compositional renderings. Something simple and easy to follow for beginners and experts alike.

So here's a good top 10 list of things to think about when creating a painting:

Top 10 Tips for Painting A Composition

Hope this helps some people out!

down boy, stay there, no down, now stay...stay!

BlackWolfMan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:12:39 GMT

I have a picture i made of four figures. Two of them standing way back in the room and another is laying down. One is close and he is bigger. Now my problem is the perspective. I have made all three of standing figures right, but the one that is down on the floor doesnt fit in the perspective. I made the porpotions correctly but he is still looks of. Does anyone know how to paint laying figures and make them look right with the perspective?