Category: Visual Dynamics
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Lynd Ward
Trailer — “O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward” [wpdevart_youtube]DGfZi5JCI5g[/wpdevart_youtube] Gods’ men HD [wpdevart_youtube]gUIvyBr09aw[/wpdevart_youtube] The Biggest Bear [wpdevart_youtube]4NGreOnPNok[/wpdevart_youtube] Google images Lynd Kendall Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult…
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Matt Madden: Exercises in Style
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (2005) is a “seriously playful exploration of the possibilities and potential of comics and storytelling”. The book is based on a simple one-page anecdote which is re-drawn and re-old 99 times in different genres and drawing styles, in the form of homages and parodies, and in formal experiments…
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Visual depth
Find places that can exaggerate different viewpoints. Focus on how you visualise depth and what strategies you use. Produce three drawings depicting a room in your house using: one-point two-point three-point perspective isometric projection the room’s own visual logic and deliberately breaking the rules a flat drawing. By definition these last three drawings will be less observed and…
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Colour theory for illustration
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Albers Interaction of Color 1963 p1 Key colour issues in printmaking Tone is perceived first, then colours (yellow first), and then the image. This means that the…
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Perspective
Find places that can exaggerate different viewpoints. Focus on how you visualise depth and what strategies you use. Produce three drawings depicting a room in your house using: one-point two-point three-point perspective isometric projection the room’s own visual logic and deliberately breaking the rules a flat drawing. By definition these last three drawings will be less observed and…