Friday, June 21, 2013

What a few classes can do!



This probably looks a little familiar, It's a drawing I did for an online Storybook illustration class.   The assignment was to illustrate this sentence.


“It was a bright sunny morning as Koki left for school but today he thought he would take a different path...what he didn’t realize...”.

We received the assignment a couple of weeks before the class actually started.  I was so eager to start I did the assignment a month before it was due.  This was the results.


 

As you can see it's a little fuzzy, literally and It give confession as to what your viewer should be looking at.  Also I have dark leaves and dark shadows on the grass so your eyes continually dart up and down.  In fact you miss what I want everyone to be looking at, Koki!

I noticed this problem after viewing one of the lessons.  Will Terry talked about design and what you can do to make your focal point stand out.  He talked about value grouping, taking similar values grouping them together and then putting the dark values on the light and vice versa.   He also mentioned line and how having crisp lines
can help your eye focus on the wanted object.

This is the second draft and will be critiqued on monday.  Ill keep you posted on the results.





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