Have you ever heard something a hundred times over and had it make no impact, only to wake up one morning and find it all suddenly makes sense?
That’s me and composition today. Inspired by the sketchbook of the previous post, I sat down to draw, and found myself using margins as advocated by Muller-Brockmann and basic “tension, rhythm, scale,” etc., as advocated by every art class I ever took, and I was able to draw doodles that blast past my prior work at the speed of light.
These little scribbles may not look earth-shattering to you, but I’ve really only had one stock drawing up my sleeve for years — a lone character isolated in a field of white. But by using basic shapes to block out a set space within the page, all of a sudden I’m drawing a courtly romance in a garden outside a pre-revolutionary French ball!
I’m drawing scenes. Therein lies the difference in composition.
2 responses to “Eureka!”
Where’s the composition for The Man Child?
That was pre-eureka, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a blob inside a square.