Homework

Once you've completed a lesson, one of the best ways to refine your understanding of that material is to help others by critiquing their work. After having done thousands of critiques and having improved immensely over the last few years, I can attest to that myself.

  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

    ectogemia

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  • Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

    relkane

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  • 250 Box Challenge

    Iea

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  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

    Sibbyuk

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  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

    Sibbyuk

    2:31 PM, Saturday July 12th 2025
  • Lesson 6: Applying Construction to Everyday Objects

    QriousK

    2:02 AM, Thursday July 10th 2025
  • Lesson 6: Applying Construction to Everyday Objects

    dargonfyl

    5:32 AM, Friday July 4th 2025
  • 100 Treasure Chest Challenge

    TotalTempest

    1:10 AM, Tuesday July 1st 2025
  • Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles

    G4rinuun

    12:14 PM, Saturday June 28th 2025
  • 25 Wheel Challenge

    G4rinuun

    11:17 AM, Saturday June 28th 2025
  • Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

    Schnozhand

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  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

    titouts

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  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

    kazu5

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  • 250 Box Challenge

    nstef03

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  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

    Quintestone

    4:57 AM, Saturday July 12th 2025
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Framed Ink

Framed Ink

I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.

Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.

Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.

Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.

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