Composition

There are a number of composition concepts that can be taken advantage of to help make an image more appealing to the viewer. Here I'm going to look at a few artworks and analyse their composition of colour light and forms.

Jason Chan, Deadspace 2 illustration for Game Informer magazine cover.

You can see in this image that orange and blue has been used to form a divide between the cold left side and warm right side of the picture. The right side also hosts all the light sources in the picture, with the left side being considerably dark as light is blocked by the monster. The eye is primarily drawn towards the brightest point on the picture, being the flash emitting from the gun.


Here I have overlayed the rule of thirds on the image. You can see that several elements loosely follow the guides. The focal point of the gun 'barrel' lies on one of the intersection points, with the blue lasers following the top horizontal line. The highlighted edge of the monsters arm and shoulder follows a L line.

Andrew 'Android' Jones, Digital painting of female.

There is really only one subject in this picture, the woman in her vibrant orange dress against a dark background, lit by a moon-like light in the upper left corner.



Here I've overlayed some green lines to show the simple yet effective L composition of the piece, broken by the flowing white silk or cloth to add interest.

Jamajurabaev, Imprisioned

The towering, intimidating form of the alien/monster fills the centre of the image, lit behind by cool blue causing it to cast a dark siloutte, a few details revealed by green ground light infront.

In this image I think there is a t compositon down the centre of the image, but the creature also seems framed by the darker envirionment not lit by the cool blue light. It creates a powerful image perfect for the