Straight vs Premultiplied : Understanding Alpha Channels. Johannes_Vloothuis: Landscape Composition Rules (1 of 23) Home Member Services Content Areas Tools Fine Arts Links Info Center WC Partners Shop Help Composition & Design : Landscape Composition Rules Page 1 of 23 Author: Johannes_Vloothuis , I have put together a series of “ rules” (I’d prefer the word, tips) of composition that when used properly should reduce the flaws in your landscape paintings. The strongest color and if possible complementary colors. A strong shift in value contrast (Light-dark or vice versa) Preferably, not essentially, it should take up a good portion of the picture plane and gradually become subdued while withdrawing. Man made structures, animals or human figures will further enhance the center of interest.
The subordinate and surrounding elements should direct or lead the viewer to that center of interest by means of pointers and visual paths. It should not be placed in the center nor halfway in the picture, preferably in any of the 1/3 portions. This area should not be blocked, not even partially. Fig 2. Fig 3. . [ Next Page ] MX-Greenscreen - Downloadable Quality Chroma key filmed footage for motion graphics. Phil Straub Composition Tutorial. Sun 4th Dec 2005, by Phil Straub | Tutorial This article was written by Phil Straub back in 2005, and it is as fresh and vital today as it was then.
Phil’s tips and trick are timeless, and can help you make your images pop! Composition is everything! No amount of detail in an illustration or Concept Painting will be successful without a strong composition foundation. Composition in Environment Concept painting can be quite difficult since your focal point usually isn’t as obvious as in a character piece. DIVINE PROPORTIONS: The Golden Rule and Rule of Thirds When you take the canvas area and divide it into ‘thirds’ Horizontally and Vertically, where the lines cross in the picture area is a ‘Golden Mean’, or the best spot in which to place your Main Subject or Object of Interest as it is the Focal Point of your picture.
The golden rule can and usually is applied to a paintings canvas proportions. The Rule of Thirds Implied Forms The Circle Another example of circular composition! The Perspective Tutorial by ~sashas on deviantART. Getting into the picture. January 2003 How a picture is made When you look at a photograph of a scene, visual cues - such as converging straight lines, shading effects, receding regular patterns and shadows - are processed by your brain to retrieve consistent information about the real scene.
Lines parallel to each other in the real scene (such as the tiles on a floor) are imaged as converging lines in the photograph which intersect at a point called the vanishing point. This holds for any set of lines as long as they are parallel to each other in the scene. Two or more aligned vanishing points define a vanishing line, such as the horizon, which defines the eye level of the viewer in the picture. These visual clues are used by artists in their paintings, in a technique called linear perspective that was invented in the second decade of the fifteenth century in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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