Binder cover.

For the third week, I did this for my binder. These are the bad guys from Spellbinder. You might recognize Thorn and Scyth from a previous drawing that I did. But this cover features one of my newest characters, Maria Heart and her Spellbinder, Magenta.

Binder cover.

I do a drawing of people for my binder at school, and this is the second one I've done...it's all the good guys and girls in Spellbinder, my book that I'll get to someday.

Contrast warm and cool colors.

This was an assignment (see below) I had from my art teacher. It's the view outside my school's art room; the medium is acrylic on canvas.

Divde your canvas into thirds--horizontal and vertical--so that you have 9 squares. Decide where your focal point will be: it should not be in the center, but at the inside corners of one of your outside four squares that came from the thirds when you divided up your canvas.

For this exercise use the bottom line of the top 3 squares as your horizon (mountain, trees, whatever you decided). Use the bottom line of the top six squares as a line to set your center of interest (focal point). Not in center of canvas.

Cool colors recede, warm comes forward. Be aware of your light source. Keep a clean paint brush...a paper towel in the hand without the brush. Don't rush, take your time and think. Make a distinct choice or on shadows, remember a middle value on a tree can be a littler warmer because it's closer to us. Also think in terms of complements in shadows, and where we want to dull a color to make a color next to it brighter.

Variety: to stimulate interest, we need:
contrasts (light, dark, half tones)
color (cool, warm, bright, muted)
shapes (different; large and small)