About the Composition Studies

   Who still doesn't know Noah Bradley should! Not only because of his excellent works but also for his inspiring and teaching competence. Recently I saw a demo video of the first week, of Noah's Art Camp, that he made available for free, which theme was "studying from the masters". In the video he talks about how to extract the most from these masters, doing composition studies, color studies and rendering studies.

   On this post we'll see a little bit of how important is, and how to do, these composition studies. It's incredible important to do these studies to understand, in terms of composition, how and why a good image is good, besides understanding how the elements are arranged to create a strong e appealing image!
 
   I summarized the most important things that he said about:

   - First of all, know what you're after before you begin. (What are you looking for with these studies? Learn composition? Color? Rendering?)
   - Study the artists that you like and appreciate, to extract the most from them, while enjoying doing it.
   - Focus on getting great and cool shapes/silhouettes.
   - Breakdown the image using at most 4 values.
       If you have to use more, you're probably not seeing as simple as you should
   - Try to be as accurate as possible.
   - Don't trace.
   - Don't focus on making really detailed. In other words, don't go much further, otherwise you'll be rendering.
   - It's better to have a good arrangement of shapes than knowing what each thing are.

Additional information:

   - These studies are also a great opportunity to experiment and learn a new medium, as an example, in traditional: watercolor, acrylics, oil, etc.
   - Flip canvas horizontal and vertical, during the process. We'll se more about it in a future post.

   That's it, be sure to chek out the demo video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQfF-P70V2Q by Noah Bradley