Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

Play.
A painting with
proposing actions
of rhythm and
movement
Size: 25cm × 30cm
Doodling artists mainly use rhythm to draw befittingly.
Ashwin (1982, 81) discerns this point: “Doodling consists of
more or less automatic drawing activities.” From this, we can
understand that rhythm and movement can be achieved by
making drawings or designs showing random lines for the
time of sketching.
At the final analysis about rhythm and movement, make
a critical observation of a dancer enchanted or captivated
with playing music to ascertain justified moments of
expressing rhythm and movement.
How to create movement in a design
Creative artists progressively attain movement in a work of
art by using different methods.
Here is a table put forward by Bernard (2010) in his book
about The principle of movement:
By using
actions
Using
dominance
Movement can be created by indicating
actions in a design. Actions include running,
walking as well as performing.
Creative artists use actions that display
charming gestures, not static/doing nothing.
That is to say, with-out actions, designs appear
less desirable.
Artists especially painters use dominance
to render monotony. This also makes some
aspects of a design to appear in supremacy
over others.
Try this dominance test: cover your face with
both—backsides of your two hands and then
peep through the thumbs' space with one
eye. Ask friends to say what they can see, by
relating their assertion to dominance.
By repetition
By creating
rhythm
Movement happens in a design that contains
repeating actions of colours, shapes, spaces,
lines and sometimes with textures. Too much
repeated occurrences in a design must be
done with careful controls to avoid monotony.
Regular use of movement causes harmonious
sequences in a design. For example, by using
similar shapes, a design may indicate frequent
variations of regularly recurring series of patterns
or elements. Artworks embraced with rhythm
can easily be incorporated with charming
gestures that are artistically planned. For
example on motifs designed to construct
repeat patterns.
How to create dominance in a design
After making a careful analysis of the basic design aspects
in the table display concerning various ways of creating
movement in a design, here is another look at how
dominance can be used in a design:
• By using contrasts of large forms with small ones
to add interest.
• Working with thick lines against delicate lines to
achieve outright intensity and depth.
• Engaging bright colours against few dull colours to
control monotony.
• Making groups of important parts in a design or
composition to stand out.
• Using elements of design, which are less expected
in a design or artwork.
Proportion is a principle of design used for describing scale
and its consistent relationship of sizes on objects, or parts of
the body. A design indicating proportion shall display parts
or shapes corresponding—in agreement with the whole.
On layouts, proportions can be attained with appropriate
arrangements of texts against illustrations and during
sketching of human figures, proportion accounts for correct
balance or harmony of body parts—their measurements
and characteristics. For instance on normal humans, if a
nose or ears do not have a close similarity to match or agree
in their exact manifestations of actual sizes. Then, those
parts are out of proportion.
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