Information & Poetry

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…

Human figure The human figure is the first word in the new dictionary. It is the subject of our sentence since it is the one that serves to create characters, actions, situations, that is, sentences. The type of treatment of proportions is the first problem to be solved. The first element to define. It is…

Movements & Angles But does this theory fit with the human figure? If we depict her lying down. She’s dead or asleep. 0 degrees is nothing. Total rest on the horizon. 90 degrees is life. A vertical figure tells us that it is alive or appears to be alive. Total opposition to gravity. But that’s…

The horizon Is it necessary to draw the ground for the reader to identify that a person is walking? The answer is no. This means that drawing the horizon is giving us redundant information. We already know that there is a floor in the moment we see a character walking. If we want to give…

The space What is space? I have read many times about artists or works in which it is said that the space they leave unrepresented has the same force as what is represented. For example, with Chillida’s work, where is the form and where is the space? I suppose every action has a reaction. An…

Forces A force is a direction. Something that drags and moves. If we have many directions in an image, it will generate a sense of bewilderment or disorder, it can be searched and it can even generate a balance, but if we simplify those forces and make similar forces have the same direction, the direction…