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ThatOneMushroomGuy

Geometric Guerilla

The Indomitable (Spring 2024)

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  • Sharing the Knowledge
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  • Tamer of Beasts
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  • Drawing Prompt: Close your Eyes

  • Drawing Prompt: The Future of Shopping

  • Drawing Prompt: Cryptid Employment

  • Drawing Prompt: Biblical Accuracy

  • Drawing Prompt: Safe Space

  • Drawing Prompt: Willy Wonka's Change of Industry

  • Drawing Prompt: The Big Hamster Wheel of Life

  • Drawing Prompt: Espionage Cat

  • Drawing Prompt: No Take, Only Throw!

  • Drawing Prompt: Royalty, Nobility, and Aristocatcy

  • Drawing Prompt: Khajiit has Wares

  • Drawing Prompt: The Good, The Bad, and the Pugly

  • Drawing Prompt: On the Catwalk

  • Drawing Prompt: We All Grow Up

  • Drawing Prompt: As Old as Stone

  • Drawing Prompt: The Day Balloons Fill the Sky

  • Drawing Prompt: Learning from Mother Nature

  • Drawing Prompt: What's With All the Cows?

  • Drawing Prompt: Who Doesn't Love a Good Meal?

  • Drawing Prompt: Ice Witch's Frozen Construct

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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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