Composition

Now this is something i really enjoy and have spent many a project pulling out hairs over, the glorious bastard, composition. So just to make things clear, composition is the layout of elements within an image to guide the eye. So if you were making an advertisement for a movie. You'd want the viewer to see the image, name of the movie, subheading and release date, its the job of the creator to balance their composition to do just that. To ensure we "got" that, we were tasked to scrutinise the compositions of others work, breaking it down to the base elements through simple shape drawings and arrows.

So, on the tail end of the session, we had to create five rough compositional sketches consisting of figure, object and landscape. All these resulting images can be seen on the right page of the above image, i was happy with all of them , excluding the scene with a parent and child looking at an overflying aeroplane, obviously because of its lack of landscape. The image i decided to use was the office scene, i just felt the sketch guided the eye nicely and utilised the space well. This is where the resulting image to the left came from, consisting of watercolour and fine liner, i think the composition is successful, and the use of colour helps this also, with the green striking against the red and oranges surrounding, really centralising the image and bringing the character forward as a focal point.