Posts by illot

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

Perspective Perspective is another form of the same mistake. 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. The 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 there reigns a type of composition based on types of cinema 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, reality had to be distorted a little. For an image to be understood by the reader, he must see as clearly as possible all the elements necessary to complete the image....

Reality, what I've learned 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. There is a conflict. 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 where we are...

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

Color I find this topic really complex and I don't think it can be solved easily. I'm 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's not a meaning that color has...