Depth, composition and human proportion Flashcards
(23 cards)
how many heads is a human body
7.5-8
halfway of the body is
the pubic bone, pubic trangle
size of hand =
size of face
format
the surface on which you create your composition (eg, billboard, 5x7 canvas, business card)
composition
how you arrange the elements on your page/format. however you fill you page/format is your composition.
- for it to feel strong and successful, balance is important
balance
balance is affected by weight, position and arrangement - as humans, we really like things to be balanced. Our art has to be balanced so that one side of the composition doesn’t feel heavier
- how we place elements on a page will change their visual weight, and the balance of the page
- Creating a lack of balance can feel uncomfortable
top and bottom of the page
view them differently. assume that the bottom of the page has some sort of gravitational pull, and that things up higher are in the sky
actual center
take a piece of paper and fold it perfectly in half, and you put a shape right in the middle. will feel uncomfortable. mathematical
visual center
a little higher up than actual center
how to we read a canvas
(in western culture) we read left to right, and top to bottom. we also read a canvas the same way
- as a result, we want want something to stop our eye from going off the composition on the right
the edge
if we leave the center blank, your eyes get pulled to the edges of the format
ways to achieve balance in a composition
symmetry, asymmetry, emphasis, negative space, intimate scale, monumental scale, creating tension while still maintaining a relationship between them, repeating shapes, vertical lines to separate figures intentionally
four types of perspective
- illusionary
- geometric
- conceptual - linear
Illusionary
using the depth-ques to create a illusion of 3 dimensions on a 2 dimensional surface
conceptual
- multi view: more than one side of an object is shown (like in cubism)
- social: the most important figure is larger than everything else on the picture plane. (Pallet of Narmer)
geometric
the placement of figures on the picture plane determines their importance (hierarchy)
linear
Scientific system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single vanishing point on the composition’s horizon line.
one point perspective
only one vanishing point is used, looking straight on at an object.
Two point perspective:
two vanishing points, being able to see two sides of an object
three points of perspective
three vanishing points are used. you can see three surfaces of an object
vanishing point
on the horizon line, where things appear to disappear
horizon line
synonymous with your eye level
what can add to a composition
messing with perspective
