A visual and artistic gesture, a gist.
Composition as an impression. Fleeting, moving, dynamic, full of life and vigor.
To better understand your compositions and photographic and visual gist, sketch your images. I use procreate to trace my favorite compositions to better understand them, and to also deconstruct them for future reference — to create even more dynamic images in the future.Â
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