Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
Composition
A course by Rommygon ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Composition
Overview
“To create a successful piece of art, not only do you need a good understanding of the media and color, you also need to find the right composition. That's why, in this lesson, I will focus on the basics of composition. ”
In this video lesson Rommygon ☻ addresses the topic: Composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art. Explore the wonders of nature and learn how to bring it to life on paper using ink, pencils, watercolor, gouache, and your vision of the botanical world.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Composition In this lesson, we will start by learning how to create a composition. For this, we will start by learning the basic rules of composition, which are shape and proportion, positioning and balance, color and texture, direction and orientation, and space or negative space. That's how it's called most of the time in photography. We started off seeing color and texture because I wanted you to be comfortable with the media first and try to understand it. Now we are going through the other parts of a composition. I will briefly explain some rules about it. Of course, these are guides...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Contemporary Botanical Art
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Category
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Areas
Botanical Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Rommygon ☻
A course by Rommygon ☻
Rommy Gonzalez is a Chilean artist based in Berlin. She studied motion graphics at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and photography Direction in Barcelona before spending a decade as a visual artist, graphic designer and art director. Rommy’s love of the natural world led to her to create the Mountopia series of paintings, which became a solo exhibition in Berlin in 2019.
Rommy’s work has been featured in Chilean street art magazine Fragmentos and tourism magazine Stgo B. She co-founded the Women in Science collective, and is represented by The Different Folk agency.
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