Focal Point in art and painting why artists do them, what's significantly important of composition.

Focal Point in art and painting why artists do them, what's significantly important of composition?

Why Composition and Focal Point

When you see a great piece of art, you are not looking at something that " just happen". It is usually the end product of a process of planning referred to as composition.

You may be inclined to just take a nice looking picture and paint it as is, relying on the photographer to define your composition. This is particularly appropriate for the beginning artist, but one day you may wish to expand your own artistic talents and try a hand at coming up with your own unique composition or make changes to improving the composition of an image you are considering. That, in my opinion, is the difference between art as mear draftsmanship and art as a creative process.

It is very important that the design of the painting pull the eye into the focal point. Other design elements can be used to direct the eye to the focal point strengthening it. Indeed it is only in setting up our design to pull the eye into our intended focal point that it becomes the focal point. Otherwise our intended focal point is just another part of the painting.

FOCAL POINT:

A strong composition has a strong focal paint (s). The elements that make up your focal point may be larger, shaper, brighter and more clearly defined, then the rest of the composition. They may even be made more prominent than they actually appear in the real world.

It us usually best to avoid putting the focal point dead center. Some artist advocate using the rule of thirds.


Composition is the means of selecting appropriate elements and arranging them on your canvas to communicate your ideas, and feelings. How you place those elements within your painting is very important. Compositions can be strong or weak, can draw attention to your painting or cause it to be ignored. Here I will assemble some tips I have gleaned over the years on how to create superior compositions that will pull the eye. I have chosen some of my own works as examples, not because they are in any way superior examples but because I am most familiar with them, they are at hand, and I have permission to use them.

Focal Point: (Chris said... ) additional thought.
In art,[the focal point is] the centre of interest in an artwork that attracts the viewer's eyes first. Artists use various techniques to bring the viewer to the focal point of their work, often the most important part of a painting, but not always placed in the centre of it. The focal point may stand out because of its size, the brightness of its colour, the use of contrasting colours, particularly light against dark, or because the components of the painting have been arranged so as to guide the viewer's eye.

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How to hold your pencil when you draw to get loose lines, artist tip and technique.

How to hold your pencil when you draw to get loose lines, artist tip and technique.

Great questions I receive from e-mail:

Hi I love your work! Thanks for putting it up, it has inspired me more and I am learning alot from it!

I have a question, I really like how your lines look so fluid, smooth agile and loose.
What is the best way to get the lines to look like that?

When you draw with a regular pencil, where are you gripping your pencil? Are you holding it near the bottom or in the middle? Are you holding the pencil like how you would write or are you using some special technique to get your lines to look that fluid, smooth and loose?

That's depending on how fast or how tight I want to go.

Tip: Loose and quick drawing, hold your pencil further away from the tip, and use your whole should and elbow (no wriste) to get the most natural arche and flow looseness line quality. The bigger the leads and the drawing pad, the better.
***DRAW with YOUR WHOLE ARM and SHOULDER*** Key key key!

Tip: Tight and detail. Hold your pencil closer to the tip to get control and tight accuracy. The smaller the leads the better result.

Once you practice a lot with big pad and BIG arch of whole arm and shoulder drawing...you can translate that into smaller drawing, but it will loose some of the real looseness of the whole arch action of natural body movement.

Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet (new from Wacom!) Economy for everyone.
Softwares:
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.

Basic Photoshop tutorial:
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The quick way to draw and sketch you idea into concept art

The quick way to draw and sketch you idea into concept art down to sketchbook.
If you have to many ideas inside your head, what is the quickest way to acquire ideas you have before it waters away.

If you ever end with no ideas in you mind, where you don't know what to make- I have a lot of things in mind but have no idea on what should I do!

First, Start with core idea first then narrow it down from there.
-What it is like guys, girls, character,
-If creature then what kind, bi-pedals, four legs, snake like, wings...look at one specific animal structure then derive from there.
-If it is a scene...narrow it down to what time period...what style of architecture...why is it there (what for). And what kind of events take place?
-Narrow it down to the specific as much as you can to filter your idea and make it solid.

Second, The key to make it happen is thumbnails them!

That's why we do thumbnails. We might have 50 ideas about one particular topic, but how do we know which one has to potential to be the best 5 out of those 50 ideas.
Thumbnails are the best way to filter your art work and select the best idea to work thru and present in your final collection.


Also Good advice from one of our readers (Thanks to Chris)
With what I usually do (fine art sculpture), when I get stuck I thumb through art books, browse the web, or I stick on some music and let my mind wander and do lots of little sketches. Doesn't matter what they are. Eventually something comes to me. It's also a good idea to go do something else for a bit (maybe even draw something from life) and take your mind off it, then when you come back fresh you might get a spark.

If you have too many ideas or don't know how to accomplish them, just quickly sketch those out too. I often find by doing this you get a clearer idea of what you want or what works and it naturally progresses. Failing that atleast you have a record of what's in your head and you can stick it in someones face and ask them what they would do, and again, something might spark from that.

I also find that if I don't know what direction I want to go in I give myself an ambiguous or vague title, subject or brief to work from i.e. "Generators" and then think of everything I can to do with it, as obvious or distant as I want. Then you can also research the subject, see what others have done and so forth.

Or perhaps for concept work something more focused like "futuristic gun", "desert enviroment", "barbarian", "cave dweller" and so on. Maybe even refine that further to help with ideas - "it's got to have big eyes, claws, clammy skin" etc. Then sketch as many ideas as you can.

Usually I think most of the time you would have to work to some sort of brief anyway, and I would think that in your portfolio if you could show the kind of ideas you would come up with when given a brief, it's gotta look good.

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