Digital-Tutors - Composition for the Creative Artist

We'll begin this process by learning about what composition is and how we can use various types of composition to direct the viewer's eye through a drawing, painting, photograph or sculpture based off of how we position and arrange visual elements. From there, I'll be walking you through a series of lessons focusing on some key compositions types. In each lesson we'll examine several works of art by famous artists throughout history to see how they employed various types of composition to engage the viewer.
Finally, we'll finish out this course with a series of lessons focusing on fleshing out our own composition by incorporating some of the composition types we've covered.By gaining an understanding of these different composition types you'll be able to create stronger pieces of art that are more creative, appealing, and engaging to the viewer's eye.


14 Lessons
1. Introduction and project overview
01:15
2. Movement in composition
11:12
3. Contrast in composition
09:41
4. Proximity in composition
07:44
5. Rhythm in composition
07:53
6. Emphasis in composition
10:45
7. Balance in composition
09:53
8. Variety in composition
10:32
9. Unity in composition
10:56
10. Using the rule of thirds to organize our own composition
10:47
11. Adding contrast to the foreground elements of our composition
12:34
12. Continuing to add contrast along with movement in our composition
13:19
13. Adding some visual rhythm to our composition
11:15
14. Final touches and a review of our composition
11:00