From the course: Painting and Developing a Composition

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Choosing a thumbnail to develop

Choosing a thumbnail to develop

From the course: Painting and Developing a Composition

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Choosing a thumbnail to develop

- I really like the tall, vertical shape of this image so I'm just going to translate this. Now this will be a composite, not a finish. I want to be able to figure out what color would I use, so a color comp helps you to know that so I'm just going to keep this still, you know relatively small, but a little larger so I can draw maybe the tree and the boat a little more effectively. So if I look at this, then I want to translate these shapes in this way, again a three quarter rule, I'm right about here with this shape of the water, right about here roughly. So the tree has this wonderful angle and it's sort of leaning, it's reaching out, it's almost like you know beseeching, come to me and it also leans, which gives it a kind of ah, wistfulness, that it's tilting, it's angled, it may have dealt with many strong winds, it's been around for a while is my assumption. And I'm constantly thinking about how it's composing within this framework. Everything relates to the edge of the frame…

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