Photoshop
COMPOSITION: COMMANDING YOUR FOCUS
Turn composition chaos into actionable steps using placement, size, colour and texture to build visual hierarchy with advice from
Mad Boogie Creations
Artist
PROFILE
Mad Boogie Creations
LOCATION: Brazil
Mad Boogie Creations is a Brazilian outsourcing studio that creates whimsical illustrations and visual development work for clients globally, and also develops its own original IPs. www.madboogie.com
Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just beginning your artistic journey, understanding composition makes all the difference. It has the power to guide the audience’s eye, making certain elements pop while subduing others to improve storytelling.
In this workshop, artists Amanda Duarte, Julio ‘MZ09’ Cesar and Filipe Laurentino will share the keys of composition, ensuring you use them confidently and effectively.
We’ll start with thumbnails, where manipulating the position, size and angles will dictate dominance in a scene, and how greyscale tones can add depth with overlapped elements and atmosphere. And no illustration can be complete without the perfect splash of colour and texture, so we’ll also talk about these nuances.