Color blocking

So, what I'll do now is I'm going to block one of the biggest things or biggest shape in the whole picture. And there's two possibilities. There's the sky, which is quite large, and then there's the shirt. And when you're thinking about the shapes of the piece, you have to think about the size of the shapes that make up the composition. If every shape is the same size, the shape of the sky, the shape of the shirt, the hair, the face, if everything's equal in size, we don't know where to look. It creates visual boredom. You have to vary the sizes of the shapes throughout the piece to keep it interesting. And you might think, well, the biggest area of shape will be the most interesting and so the focal point, and that's not necessarily so, the highest level of contrast of an edge is where eye goes. And we'll talk about that in a minute, but for right now, what I'm going to start to do is build up that sky color, and in this case, the sky color will be made with a couple of colors, ultra…