This is a two or more week (one 45 minute class per day - 5 days a week) Project. It is the first project of the year and is intended to make the students very conscious of Composition.
Below are two examples by Darley (a nineteenth century artist). He has a group of people and he places them to where your (the viewers) eye is controlled by him (the artist).
Notice how he makes you look where he want you to by making the action and the subjects eyes look where he wants them to.
Your job as a student is to use a large piece of paper (18X24 inches) and make an illustration using at least five people.
You can do it as a line drawing (with dark ink - not pencil) or color it. If you chose to use color you must remember that color is also a composition element. Discuss it with your instructor before you apply color.
This is the photo that inspired my "You know you are a wuss..." cartoon series. I will use it to do the project.
The rule of thirds basically is that you divide your paper with four lines and any where the lines intersect you put your major center of interest. In the example below I have seven figures (one less than my photo) but I made a rough sketch of the placement of the figures. Notice that I did not do the rule of thirds as it is traditionally done. Instead I placed major centers of interest in all the four spots. However, I did move the eyes of the figures toward the one figure that will eventially be the center of interest.
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Here is one of the "Know you are a Wuss...." Cartoons.
