Contrasts In Composition 

such a detailed and informative video. thank you so much!

I love how you break all that vast and complex knowledge masterfully down into these short videos. Well thought out examples and aspects broken down to their essence. This channel is a gold mine.

Thank you, love all of your tutorials!!!!!!!!!!!

This imensively improved my comprehension of constrast in composition. I will even favorite this video, in case I forgot these teachings someday, but that is unlikely, since I will put it into practice right now (also, the examples are so simple that are almost impossible to forget, and that is an interesting thing). So, thank you very much!

Great summary of various visual contrasts, Neil! There's one thing that kept nagging me to write this comment. Most primers on design/composition, this one included, imply that areas of higher visual contrast should be used to fortify narrative focal points. However, I recently stumbled upon a very unassuming old video by watercolorist Stan Miller that introduced the principle of decoupling the two. He stated that part of the perception will be strongly drawn to important figurative/narrative elements regardless of their visual contrast (so called left brain perception), while the other part will be drawn to areas of pure abstract visual contrast no matter what their narrative content is (right brain perception). This in turns creates two separate pathways of interest, making for a stronger, more stimulating composition. Miller compared it to music vs. lyrics in a song. Discovering this principle had a similar a-ha effect on me as seeing your big-medium-small tutorial for the first time. I feel the principle is immensely important for good composition but it's not talked about at all. Could be right up your alley to tackle it in one of your future videos, if you find the thing interesting. Here's Millers video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SbnMSxkbgfQ.html It's just a part of a series on watercolor basics. Quite curious how he chose to start the series with this seemingly advanced topic. In the second video he goes over a couple of classical painting examples, showing it in practice: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Dvjih2icEk.html

This was great, straightforward and well presented. Thank you!

Thanks! People sometimes underestimate the power of fundamentals. Great tutorials 🙂

Thank you!!

Thank you so much, this tutorial was great

I love it, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

You deserve way more subs haha amazing work!

Amazing!

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This is good summary video

Please Do more Like this.Thank You.

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Nice and helpfull videos, thanks!

Oh man. My eyes. Could you not use pure black and white when you showing examples? Watching it is not very pleasant.