Best Of Opposing Poses

One character's pose is dominant. The other characters' poses react to it.The characters' poses create interesting negative spaces between them.One Character Opposed to a GroupMargaret is dominant character. Other kids are together a separate element. Within that element, Tommy has dominant pose with strongest line of action-directed at Margaret.BACKGROUNDS FRAME THE POSESEven the backgrounds and

Opposing Poses in 2 and 3 different dimensions

If you wanna make your characters seem alive and aware of each other's presence it's good to balance their poses against each other so that they are reacting to each other. Try to have their lines of action vary in strength and direction.USE NEGATIVE SPACE!If one character is doing the acting - have the other character reacting to it in a less dynamic but still active pose. It's a good trick to

Design Balance: Fitting one character's positive shapes into another's negative space

Japanese magazines have some really good layout in them.These clusters of Dream Pets could easily have been cluttered disorganized messes, but instead they ad up to a pleasing and easy to understand design. The whole composition and arrangement invites your eyes to navigate easily accross the page.The layout artist arranged all the characters very carefully to make them:1) Read Clearly (

Walt Kelly Principles and Skills

It's easy to get distracted by Walt Kelly's beautiful linework and crosshatching and not see all the underlying principles that are part of his style.He has a lot of attributes underneath the lines that are equally impressive: Like cuteness and appeal.He draws very appealing eyes.He is good at compositions. I love the contrasts in the buildings below. Very tall against very thin.Strong lines of

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