The ability to compose pictures is a fundamental skill for an artist to develop, and a powerful tool for creating compelling and memorable artwork. A method I’ve used to develop my own compositional skills is to study tonal composition.
This tutorial will demonstrate the tonal composition study process in detail, from principles to execution. For a summary, watch the video playlist below or continue reading for the full article.
What is a Tonal Composition Study?
Tonal Composition is the arrangement of shapes of value in a picture or scene. It’s these shapes and masses of value, or light, dark and mid-tone that we want to obser