[Nex]

I tried to do some practicing with composition and design, this is what came out of it. Any ideas/tips about that?



.. not very spectacular.. I know

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[This message has been edited by Nex (edited May 25, 2000).]

[Frost]

Huge FOV. =) Nice effect. =)

[Francis]

It's cool, definitely a nice graphic composition. Reminds me a little bit of the Italian Futurist movement, or maybe Russian constructivist stuff. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, art history guys.)

I do question the tilted horizon line - I understand that you're trying to get a sense of scale and dynamism, but I don't know if tweaking EVERYTHING is necessarily the way to go.

Sant'elia, the main Italian futurist guy, used this type of composition a lot, where a 3 point perspective view is slightly exaggerated to create a sense of scale and grandeur.

I will see if I can dig up some of his images and post them here.

Anyway, I like it.

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[Francis]

Here's a couple of images that I talked about earlier. Sant'elia's drawings are more about the architecture and less about the graphic design like yours is, although I do think that he took the design of the page into consideration when he composed the drawings.

You can see that his images actually use very conventional one and two point perspective, and because (in the case of his two point perspective drawings) the vanishing points are pretty far apart, there is not so much giant-field-of-view distortion.






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[Nex]

Thanks a lot both of you!

The pictures are really great. I like this construction drawing-style. Especially the last two pictures. Thanks for researching and putting them up.

I did some construction drawing when I was still in school some time ago ( mostly product construction.. robots, mechanics and all that stuff .. static calculations etc.) maybe this is something I could work on a bit. I like this "Industrial design" look somehow.

Cya