Creative Drawing Techniques for Beginners
Composition and visual weight
A course by Puño , Illustrator and Educator
Reconnect with your creativity and improve your drawing skills no matter your level
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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
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Category
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Areas
Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Puño was born in Madrid in 1978. He has worked as an illustrator since 1994 but didn't actually take it seriously until 2005. He is the author of several book illustrations, both for children and adults, and has published books of all kinds, including some with his poems.
He has worked in different professional fields, such as advertising, media, and animation. In his spare time, he creates a street photography series. He has lived in Madrid, A Coruña, and Paris, working for a long list of clients including Coca-Cola, Nike, Greenpeace, TEDx, BBVA, Telefonica, ING Direct, Ono, El Mundo, Kalandraka, Nobrow 8, and more.
In 2009, he won the SM Foundation International Illustration Prize and the First Creacomic CAM 2009 Award. Since 2011, he has coordinated and directed several courses in illustration and creativity, including at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid.
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