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When I opened my account there was a big and wonderful surprise - my painting "Moon" had got Daily Deviation:jawdrop: :love:Huge thank you to JackalMordant for suggesting my work:hug::heart::Dand Malintra-Shadowmoon for featuring it:hug: :heart: ;)

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When I finished my recent painting "Invisible Source", it was ok, but still it didn't feel complete or satisfying to me, although I had made it according to the sketch. The reason was the lack of balance in the work. So here will be a small journal about the balance in the artworks with the examples, how I messed up my work and where was the solution.


Each element in our works has its mass or weight - more the element weighs, more our attention gravitates around it. The weight is created by intensity of characteristics - we have amount of details, size of elements, contrast, saturation, brightness etc. It becomes tricky when the elements in our works have the more noticeable weight of different characteristics, for instance, one element we have in a bright colour, but the other element has a lot of details to it. Then a question arises - how to make the work to look harmonic and balanced?

When it comes to the balance I would imagine the central/the balance point of the sheet of paper I'm working with, and the task is to even out the weight of elements around it, similar in the way when there is a table with one central leg and how we would put the objects on the table, so it won't fall on the side.


To make the idea more clear, let's take a look at these quick designs:

  • Design 1 (balanced) - both elements have the same amount of details, size, saturation and contrast.

Design1
  • Design 2 (balanced) - the first element has more details, contrast and colour differences, while the second elements has a bigger size.

Design2
  • Design 3 (unbalanced) - the first element has more details, size, colours and contrast, while the second element has less intensity of these characteristics.

Design3

Additional to that I want to put an emphasis of the bigger point in the connecting lines in the designs, because that's one of the things I personally tend to make a mistake when creating a sketch. These points are the middle between the centers of the elements and the balance point of the composition. But they don't look in the middle, because of the different sizes of elements. And here is where I used to make a big mistake - I altered this balance point so it would look in the same distance from the elements, forgetting that the "look" is created by the borders of elements, not their position in the artwork as whole. So when using balance point, the trick is to take a look through your eyelashes and see how all elements fit together around the point, not to focus on the point and its relations with the separate elements.

Here is the first version of my finished painting. The left side of the work draws focus more, leaving the right side rather unnecessary. As I wanted to keep it, what I needed to do is to increase the weight of elements on the right side.

Light1 2

I decided to do it by increasing the amount of details, to create bigger contrast of elements from the background and to make some more saturated details.

Invisible source

Why I didn't see this in the sketch? In the sketches I create the composition based on elements without making marks of their weight, keeping the weight in mind, but that's often not the best thing to do, as what we imagined can look quite different when created:lol: Therefore I decided to imply the weight marks in my sketches onward:D


I hope you find this journal useful, good luck with your artistic journey;)

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