Education: Fundamentals of Composition Part Two

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Today, I'm back at the archive, and continuing lesson three from the Famous Artists Illustration Course. (For our previous postings from these great books, see Fundamentals of Composition Part One, Chad's Design for Television, and Willard Mullin on Animals.)

John Kricfalusi recently posted a series of great articles on composition on his blog. You'll want to check those out too...

Composition For Layout And Background Artists: Framing
Composition 2: Intersection
Composition 3: Clear Staging
Composition 4: Staging Groups of Characters
Composition 5: Negative vs Positive Space
Composition 6: Asymetricality
Composition 7: Poses Working Together
Composition 8: Form vs. Detail, Lettering, Reference
Composition 9: Study Other Artists
Composition 10: Contrasts
Composition 11: Organic Shapes
Composition 12: Contrasts in Texture and Spacing
Composition 13: Scale
Composition 14: Form Over Detail
Composition 15: Form in Clouds
Composition 16: Flair
Composition 17: Reference and Inspiration
Composition 18: Scene Planning For TV
Compostion 19: Scene Planning For TV Part Two
Compostion 20: More Inspiring BG Layouts

2.) DEPTH






3.) LINE






4.) VALUE





For the first half of this lesson, see Fundamentals of Composition Part One.

The Famous Artists Course was created in the mid-1950s by Norman Rockwell, Rube Goldberg and Albert Dorne, among others. The correspondence lessons and educational materials are still available at www.famous-artists-school.com. Books from the three courses: Painting, Illustration/Design and Cartooning turn up on eBay as well. I highly recommend these great resources to students.

For our previous postings from the Famous Artists Course, see Fundamentals of Composition Part One, Chad's Design for Television, and Willard Mullin on Animals.

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Stephen Worth
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