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The Elements of Composition for Illustrators

With Mary Jane Begin Liked by 893 users
Duration: 2h 2m Skill level: Beginner Released: 3/13/2015

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Course details

Understanding how to arrange the elements of a composition is critical to a successful final piece. Like the skeleton of a creature, composition is the foundation on which everything else rests.

This course will help to clarify best practices for developing any artistic or illustrated composition. Shaping the elements; marrying concept to composition; engaging the editing eye; achieving balance, unity, directional movement, and perspective; and exploring point of view and focal points are all topics covered in these lessons. Author (and professional artist) Mary Jane Begin also explores the major and minor pitfalls of a weak composition and explains the six compositional rules that lead to the best end results! See the steps in action in the final chapter, where Mary Jane designs a concept for lynda.com.

Then share what you've learned with the lynda.com community. Take the three challenges Mary Jane issues in the course and post your results to Facebook and Twitter, using the hashtag #learnatlynda. We can't wait to see your illustrations!

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Meet the instructor

Learner reviews

4.8 out of 5

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  • Marco Antonio Silva Marco Antonio Silva

    Marco Antonio Silva

    Cloud Computing & UX Design | AWS | estratégias de migração de aplicações para a Cloud | Python | SQL

    5/5 August 10, 2024
    Fácil de entender com bons exemplos.
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  • Nguyễn Phúc Thiên Nguyễn Phúc Thiên

    Nguyễn Phúc Thiên

    Student at VNU-HCM High School for the Gifted

    5/5 November 14, 2023
    As a beginer, i appreciate some further explanation of her in some lecture, for example, she said the unavoidable large shapes (depiction of big animal and a mouse), shapes of a big animal may attract the eyes first making us to look at secondary element first, but with color or texture, choices on the mouse, our eyes are led back to main focus areas.
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  • Star Gould Star Gould

    Star Gould

    Traditional Drawing/Anti-Bullying Advocate/Korean-American

    5/5 September 26, 2023
    I think my premium's worth it for this course alone!
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