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Seed: Seeing Space

This exercise is to help you look at objects in terms of positive and negative space, and in doing so you become more aware of shape and the space around shapes, one of the fundamental elements of art. Challenge: Now that you understand the exercise, try creating a more complex composition, maybe with multiple objects layered in space, or landscape (trees, plants, buildings..). Once you have mapped out the negative...


Tags: charcoal, seed, drawing, objects, space, composition, Betty Edwards, negative space

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