Information and poetry

Realistic color Trying to represent color realistically can also be a limitation when you can use it to express sensations and leave the information burden to form. Distribute the weight of communication in form and color and get new messages.

Perspective Perspective is another form of the same error. I tend to look for its correction and that limits me to realistic compositions. A place can be represented either by what we see or by what is there. Christian Montenegro explains it perfectly. Perspective can be deformed aggressively or slightly. In both...

Film framing I come from the world of audiovisual communication. Video and animation. In this world reigns a type of composition based on types of film shots. A structuring that takes the human figure as a reference and establishes different types of framing of it. Thus, there is the general shot when it represents a...

Drawing well The clearest example I find in human poses. I remember in animation class, how in order for some poses to be understood, it was necessary to distort reality a little. For an image to be understood by the reader, he must see as clearly as possible all the elements that are necessary to complete...

Reality, the learned It has happened to me a thousand times. I'm drawing something. The pose of the figure is correct, but something that should be seen, for example an object in one hand, is not seen at all. A conflict arises. I need to show that, but the pose doesn't allow it. In the end, I come to a...

Light Light has the power to control information. The base position of light is zenithal. It gives us a shadow on the ground. It 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 place we are in....

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

Color This topic seems really complex to me and I don't think it can be solved easily. I am going to focus on the color information. The white of the paper is a free space. It is something to be filled. A blank sheet of paper is something to be filled. But it is not a meaning that color has....

The environment The scenery is a set of elements that give information about a location of a scene. If we represent the scenery it is because there is important information for the understanding of the image. You can add that information, or not. It is not always necessary. You can be very descriptive or be more subtle. If...

The face Serves to definitively define a character. It is the who. It makes that in a vignette, seeing only the face, we can know which characters are talking. When the spectator sees eyes and mouth, he recognizes a face. The nose, the shape, the type of eyes and mouth serve to specify. It makes there are no doubts...