Medium: Watercolor Size: 12x17 inches Closeup details here: [link] Prints and original here: [link] Related Blog posts with sketches here: [link] , [link] , and [link]
Cover for Iron Khan by Liz Williams, to be published by Morrigan Books within the next month. The floating city of Agarta in the distance.
Hello! I don't know much about art, but I had a question about the composition of this beautiful piece. I would expect the spire of the building to be centered in the middle of the moon, but it isn't (obviously ). My question is, why? I am only curious, but without the spire centered so that it is directly in the middle of the moon, this has a very different feel (to me anyways). Just wondering, and nice job
I don't like to have complete symmetry in my pieces. For a couple of reasons
- If you're going for symmetry, and it's not EXACT, then it is very obvious and achieves the opposite effect that you're going for - which is it that it makes a piece look out of balance.
- I find symmetry to be boring (most of the time). I like the skew and twist that asymmetry provides instead.
- It gives a piece much more flow and helps the composition move, because when something is mirrored and centered, the movement is killed. I wanted movement in this, flowing up from the woman and bird, through the other smaller birds and the city.
I don't know much about art, but I had a question about the composition of this beautiful piece. I would expect the spire of the building to be centered in the middle of the moon, but it isn't (obviously
Just wondering, and nice job
- If you're going for symmetry, and it's not EXACT, then it is very obvious and achieves the opposite effect that you're going for - which is it that it makes a piece look out of balance.
- I find symmetry to be boring (most of the time). I like the skew and twist that asymmetry provides instead.
- It gives a piece much more flow and helps the composition move, because when something is mirrored and centered, the movement is killed. I wanted movement in this, flowing up from the woman and bird, through the other smaller birds and the city.