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Step by step slideshows/Numerous visual examples … Artist profiles & inspirational reference About the Artist Archive for the ‘PERSPECTIVE DRAWING HELP’ Category Posted by: Julie Duell on May 26, 2008 Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 310 other followers Categories. Composition In Portraiture. Let’s start with the Fibonacci Sequence 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144 The Fibonacci sequence is the set of numbers aquired when one takes first the numbers 0 and 1 and adds them to get 1, and from that point on adds the the last two numbers of the series to get the next number in the series.
THE MAGIC RATIO The ancient greeks somewhere knew about this certain ratio which had interesting properties. They defined it by taking a line segment, and dividing it into two parts, in such a way that the ratio of the larger portion to the original segment is the same as the ratio of the smaller segment to the larger. This ratio is 1.618 (give or take a few decimal places). If we look at the fibonacci sequence and divide the current result with the previous result, as we progress in the sequence, we can see that the answer quickly approaches the magic ratio. 2 / 1 = 23 / 2 = 1.55 / 3 = 1.668 / 5 = 1.6...89 / 55 = 1.618144 / 89 = 1.6179 etc.
Right.. so enough of the maths. WHY DO WE CARE? Golden Section and Rule of Thirds (Golden Mean, Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Golden Proportion, Golden Triangles). Creating art using the golden ratio - Masterclass. For centuries artists and designers have used a sum – the golden ratio – to achieve proportion.
Here’s how to make it work for you. The golden ratio is about as close as many artists and designers get to appreciating hardcore mathematics: it’s a ratio – roughly 1:1.6180339887, if you’re curious – that is widely regarded to give balanced, harmonious proportions. Since it was first calculated with any degree of precision in Greek times, the ratio has been applied over the centuries by creatives ranging from architects to bookbinders. Even if you’re not a maths boffin, the basics of the golden ratio are easy to understand: a perfectly symmetrical composition is less satisfying and aesthetically pleasing than one in which the proportions are slightly asymmetrical. People studying the golden ratio have found it everywhere from the Pyramids to the Mona Lisa – and even in nature, for example in the veins of leaves. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08.