notan is a way to balance, or harmonize, light and dark elements in a composition. It’s the underlying value structure, or value map, of your design in which light shapes are massed together, and dark shapes are massed together, reducing the composition to two, or possibly three, colors.
If you're a designer or artist trying to wrap your head around what balance is all about, you're not alone. Balance is…
An Eye Level reader wrote: What would be the forward steps to draw realistically, in correct proportions, from imagination? Especially imaginary (though…
Whenever we create design and art we are composing. Composition is the make up, arrangement or structure of a work, whether it's…