Composition

In today's session we did some exploration of the idea of composition and the placement of items in a image. I used a viewfinder to select an area to draw and then I drew an outline of the subjects within the piece and only cross-hatched the areas of negative space. What I found interesting while doing this exercise is how much a image is made up of negative space and how useful it is at defining the forms of subjects within a piece. What I also found interesting about this exercise was that the positive space did not take up such a huge area that I thought it would and only covered about half the page which means that within this chosen are of interest there is just as much amount of empty space within this sketch then the actual drawing itself.

As a finally to the lesson we did a final sketch of a chosen area in fine-liner and a water wash. This wash combined with the ink pen created tone and smoothed it out evenly across the page. What I like about this sketch is how the ink spreads across the page when water is applied but yet the original lines where the tone was still stay there even though they have been washed over so it still had that graphic novel like look to it even though there was still tone. The thing I don't like about the sketch is my line work because I draw way to rough and because of this looks way to sketchy and amateurish to be considered a decent piece of work. If I got the chance I would try it again and choose a more interesting subject to draw unlike this uninteresting iron and box so that I can add more detail and overall create a improved final piece.