02-28-2011, 02:43 PM
Kurt ... You are correct about Mike C. ... he has skills.
And so did Rembrandt ... but he did not wake up one morning with them! What Gary has shown us so far is that the potential is there for him to create a reasonably believable background for his developing layout ... all of the important signals are there ... or germinating in his fertile gray matter!
Practice, a.k.a. studied repetition, is the only way to improve one's skills at any endeavor. The more one studies what he is doing and how and why it currently appears the way it does, and the more one struggles with the concept of creating a mere indication that there is something where there is nothing, and discovers the process for creating that illusion, the better the outcome will become. [You don't go to art school to be taught how to draw or paint. You go to art school to learn how to see!}
Your most recently provided link is a stellar example of the concepts and visual principles that I have been trying desperately to convey here over the past day or so.!
Immediately behind the green automobile’s rear bumper, if one looks very closely, is the point where the horizontal and the vertical planes meet. Yep! Right there! But manipulation of scene composition, color saturaation, hue and intensity, and the placement of objects at or near that intersection all but make it disappear! The curve in the roadway is a very helpful ploy as it unsettles the eye. Beautifully done! But I would bet, not the absolute first attempt!!!
I must thank you Kurt, for your kind assistance in providing relevant visual props to help my attempts to explain the principles at play here. The visuals could not have been chosen more appropriately! It's been over 40 years since, as a bright young senior in the Industrial Design Department, I was often called upon by the department faculty to substitute teach the freshman "Intro to Industrial Design 101" class ... I loved it ... it was the source of great enjoyment ... but I'm a bit rusty.
And so did Rembrandt ... but he did not wake up one morning with them! What Gary has shown us so far is that the potential is there for him to create a reasonably believable background for his developing layout ... all of the important signals are there ... or germinating in his fertile gray matter!
Practice, a.k.a. studied repetition, is the only way to improve one's skills at any endeavor. The more one studies what he is doing and how and why it currently appears the way it does, and the more one struggles with the concept of creating a mere indication that there is something where there is nothing, and discovers the process for creating that illusion, the better the outcome will become. [You don't go to art school to be taught how to draw or paint. You go to art school to learn how to see!}
People look at things ... but they do not see them!
Your most recently provided link is a stellar example of the concepts and visual principles that I have been trying desperately to convey here over the past day or so.!
Immediately behind the green automobile’s rear bumper, if one looks very closely, is the point where the horizontal and the vertical planes meet. Yep! Right there! But manipulation of scene composition, color saturaation, hue and intensity, and the placement of objects at or near that intersection all but make it disappear! The curve in the roadway is a very helpful ploy as it unsettles the eye. Beautifully done! But I would bet, not the absolute first attempt!!!
I must thank you Kurt, for your kind assistance in providing relevant visual props to help my attempts to explain the principles at play here. The visuals could not have been chosen more appropriately! It's been over 40 years since, as a bright young senior in the Industrial Design Department, I was often called upon by the department faculty to substitute teach the freshman "Intro to Industrial Design 101" class ... I loved it ... it was the source of great enjoyment ... but I'm a bit rusty.
Thank you to all for permitting me the opportunity to exercise my own rather flabby gray matter! It's been an immense amount of mental fun!
Thank you!
Thank you!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln