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Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners

Composition and visual weight

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About the video: Composition and visual weight

Overview

“We will learn some basic notions that will allow us to organize and better place our drawings, and to get them to be more balanced, as well as to establish the elements that should attract the attention of the viewer. ”

In this video lesson Puño addresses the topic: Composition and visual weight, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners. Reconnect with your creativity and improve your drawing skills no matter your level.

Partial transcription of the video

“Composition and visual weight In drawing, there are some universal rules based on perception and on cultural conventions. To improve as an artist, we need to know them, whether to respect them or ignore them. In this unit we'll look at some principles about composition and perspective. In this first unit, we'll look at composition and visual weight. Composition is the order of a series of elements in an image it emphasises the subject, the tone or action of this image, and makes it easier to understand or more aesthetically pleasing to the observer. This order defines the image's visual rhy...”

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Course summary for: Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners

  • Level: Beginner
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    Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration

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A course by Puño

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Puño has been a professional illustrator since 1994 and it was just three years later that he also began his career as an educator specializing in creativity, illustration, and graphic storytelling. He has extensive experience in desktop publishing and created and managed the publishing house Ultrarradio from 2010 to 2013. He was also director of the One Year Illustration and Graphic Novel course at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid and curator of the Madrid City Council's exhibition series La Ciudad en Viñetas between 2012 and 2015. He received the 2018 Barco de Vapor Award and the 2009 Fundación SM International Illustration Award, among others.


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Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners. Illustration course by Puño Best seller

Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners

A course by Puño
Illustrator and Educator. Medellín, Colombia.
Joined March 2004
  • 99% positive reviews (4.5K)
  • 172,729 students