Nat's Sketchbook

[Fedodika]

I'll give you a little theory for this last piece; So in a composition, and this applies to EVERYTHING, there are big, medium and small, generally, of course can also be tiny, or huge etc. So, the brances you've selected are elements on the image, and they have quite similar sizes, but one is slightly bigger. therefore you have a lot of medium sized elements, which create a uniformity, which probably makes you feel "empty" as you say.

Also there is the element of gesture in the branches themselves which is also uniform as like a half elipse on the canvas. A fine illustrator will plan literally every little thing on the piece to lead the eye around how they want. 

Take this waterhouse, start the eye at the fish at the bottom, then it goes up to the foot, swooshes in the leg, and into the harp. The trees in the back aren't perfectly straight... coincidence? they are perfectly balanced as complimentary C curves to the image. And her head, points back to the fish, which starts the eye over again. You can see all this stuff in great painters. Just take any master work and take a bright color and draw on top to find the big rythm lines and gesture of where the eye is going and such; you'll learn more about image making in a very small time ;) also take written notes, it makes all the difference

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