CHAPTER 6
LEADING THE EYE Prioritizing by Design
LEADING THE EYE 6
Another important concept to keep in mind when staging your character in a composition is how your design “leads the eye” of your viewer. When we are designing an illustration, we usually have a story point, character point of view (which we’ll get to in the next chapter), or a subject or object we want the audience to look at (or “read”) first. Other parts of the composition may be secondarily important, but there is always a focal point to a scene – that one area of the design we want to visually lead the viewer’s eye to. Staging a scene correctly is how you do this. Good ...
Get Character Mentor now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
