Pre-existing elements in the image

Pre-existing elements in the image Contrary to everything I’ve thought all my life, a blank sheet of paper is not empty. There are elements in it that, although they are invisible, are waiting for us to add the first stroke on the sheet to show their power. Once you know about its existence, you never…

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Previous indications

Previous indications Having discovered the extent of my ignorance with Pepe Gimeno’s course, I considered it essential to read the book Visual Perception by Ruldof Areim. It’s not an easy read, but behind every page are hidden decisive revelations. The book has accompanied me all this time of crisis. I leave some doubts and relative…

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Choosing My Poetry

Choosing My Poetry Obviously, there are several poems. How much? Hundreds? Thousands? Million? Surely, there is one for every person, but also, unfortunately, we don’t see one for every person. There are people who dedicate themselves to following the poetry of others, thinking that by following that path, they will find their own. Or even…

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Is poetry knowing how to draw?

Is poetry knowing how to draw? I guess the answer is yes. You can create an image just by drawing well. A drawing can contain a beauty that completes a sensation, but probably, even behind these cases, there is information that implicitly indicates beauty, sensuality, harmony, balance… But I’m missing something. It’s not what I’m…

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What is poetry in the image?

What is poetry in the image? Poetry, then, would be the decisions that the writer of the image makes, the way he chooses to tell. How it converts information from a sentence into verse. This is how we distinguish what we tell from how we count. Poetry can be everything. Colors, shapes, spaces, representations, omissions.…

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Explicit or Implicit Information

Explicit or Implicit Information The information may be explicit or implicit. The explicit one is what we see. It is born from the words we see in an image. Implicit information is information that is not represented by any specific element but arises from relationships between those elements. We can have a character walking. Either…

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Misspellings

Misspellings From this point of view, a problem arises that I have had hundreds of times. Drawings that have failed to convey the information correctly. Here there may be: Misspelled words. If I want to draw a donkey and the reader reads a horse, I’m having a serious communication problem, which can cause the rest…

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Words

Words The first thing is the recognizable elements that appear in an image. If we see a glass drawn, we will have information that will be a noun. We could consider it a word. We can have complements to that word. If it is made of glass, we provide a complement of information. In the…

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What parts of an image have information?

What parts of an image have information? There are many elements in an image that can contain information. The elements that appear drawn in an image provide very specific information, but there are more things that can contain information. A color, a space, a type of stroke, even a style can have information. It is…

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What questions should I ask myself?

What questions should I ask myself? What do I have to ask myself? Historically, I’ve been concerned with questions like, how do you prepare a portfolio? How to submit a project to a publisher? How to get followers on social media? or how to reach customers? These are all questions about selling something. At the…

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