Balance (On Repeat)

Currently Reading: Graphic Design Principles Index Parts 3-5

So yeah, a lot of this is just a repeat of what I just read, but I don't mind the review. I might start practicing tutorials 3 times a week to add the theory. My books still haven't showed up, but I'm willing to review and expand my knowledge on the principels. I also got this study session out and done early. So yay!

Late Nights is the New Proportion

Currently Reading: Chapter 21 of Language of Graphic Design

I been getting up really early, because my mom is working later than usual. So it's been cutting down my time. Seriously by 3 o'clock I need to sleep. So that's why I'm up this late. It was a pretty short chapter, and I learned about Proportion and Scale. I had a hard time with The Golden Ratio, because I'm suck at math. However, I get the general gist of it and I checked out an article for as well which I will link below.

I also bought two books, Visual Communication: Images with Messages and the Typography Workbook on Thrifty Books.  I want to learn how communicate a message efficiently and I need to read that. I think next while I'm reading for those two books to come in, I will be reading up on Color Theory or Design Principals.

I think Design Principals before Color Theory. *lesigh*

Supplemental Reading

• Design in Art: Scale and Proportion 
• The designer's guide to the Golden Ratio

 

Balance and Symmetry

What I'm Currently Reading: The Language of Graphic Design by Richard Poulin pgs 120-140

Okay, I was totally dragging my feet today, because I wanted to rpg than do this. But I saw that little don't break the chain calendar and I knew I had to do it. So gold star for me. So today I read about balance and symmetry.  First thing I learned about is how color, weight, value, and texture can affect a composition's balance. I also learned about what symmetry where one side mirrors the other side, and everything is centered on a horizontal access.  Asymmetry is where there is no symmetry in the composition.

Some of the explanations especially when it came to bilateral symmetry went out of my head and I'm going to have to dig more information up, but I got a good primer on balance and symmetry. I'm also found a video that pretty much sums up the difference of balance, symmetry, and asymmetry.