The Light Light has the power to control information. The base position of the light is zenithal. It gives us a shadow on the ground. You can show information or hide it. It also gives us spatio-temporal information. It can tell us the time of day, but it can also tell us the type of…

Harmony In poetry, we talk about the musicality of a poem. Color is going to be a key part of the musicality of the illustration. Color is an indivisible part of a line or a shape. Form is form because it has a color or a set of colors that define it as an object,…

Color This issue seems really complex to me and I don’t think it can be easily resolved. I’m going to focus on the color information. The white of the paper is a free space. It’s something that needs to be filled. A blank sheet of paper is something to fill. But it’s not a meaning…

The Surroundings The stage is a set of elements that give information about a location in a scene. If we represent the scenario, it is because there is important information for the understanding of the image. You may or may not add that information. It’s not always necessary. You can be very descriptive or be…

The Face It serves to definitively specify a character. It’s the who. It makes it so that in a vignette, seeing only the face, we can tell which characters are talking. When the viewer sees eyes and mouth, he recognizes a face. The nose, the shape, the type of eyes and mouth serve to concretize.…

The Style Style also possesses information. A manga vignette is not the same as a realistic one. The type of stroke, lighting, colors, everything induces a theme. It influences the type of story the reader wants to read. In fact, many times, just by looking at a drawing, the reader can see whether or not…

Perfection When the perfect line appears, where was it? Space has always been there, but where was that perfect line that defines it? It’s perfect shape, hidden treasure. It’s proportion and balance. The imperfect culmination. Beauty. Perfect in its impropriety. The treasure sought. Nothing is to be touched. It is a game of proportions and…

The Line The line can be subdued or released. You can work from total mastery. No doubt about it. Absolute control of the form and its balance with the environment. It generates a perfect image in its perfection. A perfect reality. Another way is to let it go. We recognize what it tells us, but…

The Line and the Shape The shape is common. The line is our own. The shape is generic. The drawing is concrete. The form tells us what it is. The drawing specifies who he is. The line is form as well. It’s space, but it’s the space of detail. Probably the shape is enough to…

The Pose Choosing a realistic representation of a pose is a choice of form, not content. As a formal representation, it may have advantages, but it certainly has limitations, for example in expressiveness or in adaptation for a better understanding of an action. There are actions that, when represented realistically, their action is not well…