The Waiter
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- 19th June 2018
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I find grotesque or spooky pictures appealing, too.
I think it is interesting not to rely on clumsy gross-out-effects, but to make the depicted situation in it’s entirety disturbing or unsettling.
This might be interesting for you as well:
What you can learn about color composition from old coat of arms
On of the roles of the composition of an image is to depict the most important elements of the picture in a clear, recognizable manner. For color pictures, not only the placement of the elements is playing a central role, but the color composition as well.
An obvious method is to separate diffrent elements or layers within the image like foreground and background by different color saturations of a difference in lightness.
There are many approaches for setting up a color composition. To acquire some helpful rules of thumb, it can be useful to look at some of the oldest works of visual design in history: Coat of arms and flags.
