{"id":22819,"date":"2012-10-08T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:39:12","slug":"kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22819 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22821\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22824\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo2_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22825\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo3_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22827\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo4_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22830\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo5_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22832\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo6_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kalidraws-today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick\/attachment\/22834\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mbfq4haILJ1r2jz9fo7_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kalidraws.tumblr.com\/post\/32953413185\/today-i-gave-my-students-a-quick-presentation-on\">kalidraws<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today I gave my students a quick presentation on some of the basic considerations for composition, which I am now sharing with you! I\u2019ve given them separate talks about color and tonal value\/contrast, which are also super important compositional concerns. (I\u2019ll be sharing those presentations too once I properly format them)<\/p>\n<p>I personally love learning about different compositional techniques. It\u2019s fun to think about the ways that the brain views &amp; sorts images, and how we can trick it into feeling a certain way or looking at certain aspects of an image first! It\u2019s easy to fall into compositional ruts (which I am also guilty of) because a lot of art gets by with mediocre, though serviceable, compositions. If you can generally understand what\u2019s happening in an image then it\u2019s generally fine. However, it\u2019s the truly great compositions, where everything in the whole image has been considered and \u2018clicks\u2019 together, that bump up an illustration to a visual slam dunk. NC Wyeth is one of my favorite artists for this reason: his compositions are rock solid, varied based on the image\u2019s intent, and always enhance the mood or action he is depicting.<\/p>\n<p>For extra reading, some online compositional resources that I\u2019ve found helpful or interesting include:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/escapefromillustrationisland.com\/2010\/01\/07\/free-andrew-loomis-art-intstruction-downloads\/\">Creative Illustration<\/a> by Andrew Loomis (download it for FREE. Such a great book all-around.)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gurneyjourney.blogspot.com\/\">Gurney Journey<\/a> (check out the \u201cComposition\u201d tag, but really everything he posts is great)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curiousoldlibrary.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/schweizer-guide-to-spotting-tangents.html\">The Schweitzer guide to spotting tangents<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cinemosaic.blogspot.com\/\">Cinemosaic<\/a> (a blog by Lou Romano with some truly WONDERFUL compositions captured from various films)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredgriffinart.com\/PORTFOLIO\/Popups\/d_wheretoputcow.htm\">Where to Put the Cow<\/a> by Anita Griffin<\/p>\n<p>Happy composition-ing!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kalidraws: Today I gave my students a quick presentation on some of the basic considerations for composition, which I am now sharing with you! I\u2019ve given them separate talks about color and tonal value\/contrast, which are also super important compositional concerns. (I\u2019ll be sharing those presentations too once I properly format them) I personally love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5W3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22837,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions\/22837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}