Tiny Parrot
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- 12th August 2018
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For this design, I focused on a clearly readable silhouette, saturated colors and the right balance between surface details and clear shapes.
All of which are things greatly helped by choosing a parrot as subject for this illustration.
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.
