Composition: Learning to See Creatively
8 Week Class | This course is completed
Composition is a transferable skill that is relevant to all visual media - Illustrators, graphic designers, photographers and even architects benefit from this essential skill. This course focuses on teaching students how to see and use composition successfully. Composition refers to the way all elements of a picture work together to produce an overall effect.
Students will learn how to organize the elements of their picture so that they point towards a specific focal point by learning about leading lines and framing strategies. From there we will focus on creating emotional impact in our images by exploring how to draw different angles and vantage points. We will review how to explore different colour combinations and how using hot or cool colours can change the meaning behind the image and enhance different emotions.
Through our time together we will work through class presentations where students will be taught how to analyze an image and then design their own image with similar elements. All skill levels are welcome as composition is for everyone!
Classes will include live lectures via a projector, instructor demo drawings, student critiques, and handouts. Optional homework assignments will be offered each week and reviewed as a class.
Base Tuition: $365 + Material Fee: $10 = $375 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- - What composition is, how it works, and why it matters
- - Framing techniques and leading lines
- - How to add depth to a drawing through overlap, line sensitivity and form
- - Shape relationships and how they affect the emotions of a viewer
- - What a vantage point is and how to use it to create mood in your images
- - Colour relationships and how different colours can convey different moods
Lindsey Rosenow
Lindsey is a Toronto-based Artist who has been teaching in Toronto for the last 6 years.
She has taught film making, stop motion and classical animation, script writing, camera editing and video game design at the Toronto International Film Festival. And at the Animation Portfolio Workshop, topics included Gesture Drawing, Structure Drawing, Anatomy, Character Design, Perspective, Layout Design, Composition, Animation for beginners, and Storyboarding. Currently, Lindsey is working freelance with a focus on design jobs for animation as a layout artist and prop designer.
Lindsey is a big believer in progressive learning - she values transferable skills over singular assignments, making sure that all lessons work cohesively with one another.