How to Study Composition?

Composition is technical, creative, and incredibly subjective. Marshall teaches us how to learn composition and suggests artists and resources that will help you learn more about it. Marshall talks about breaking apart master paintings to learn how to compose, focal points, contrasts, metaphors, harmonic armatures like the golden ratio, among many other things. Marshall has years of experience teaching this subject so there's a lot to absorb and be inspired by when it comes to composition.

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Erik Gist - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/erik-gist-drawings-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Steelyard Composition blogpost: https://www.samuelearp.com/new-blog/2019/7/16/5-composition-ideas-to-improve-your-landscape-painting

Edgar Payne: Composition of Outdoor Painting - https://amzn.to/2EicGA2

golden ratio mean - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/golden-ratio-mean-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Myron Barnstone - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/myron-barnstone-class-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Rembrandt - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/rembrandt-paintings-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

John Constable - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/john-constable-yarmouth-pier-paintings-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry by Jay Hambidge - https://amzn.to/3hNhQTn

Pattern and Design with Dynamic Symmetry by Edward B. Edwards - https://amzn.to/30X7Z6m

Norman Rockwell - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/norman-rockwell-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale - https://amzn.to/3hE42KL

Hogarth’s hand proportions guideline - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/hogarth-hand-proportions-guideline-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Alphonse Mucha - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/alphonse-mucha-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Frank Frazetta - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/frank-frazetta-painting-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Francisco Goya - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/francisco-goya-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Howard Pyle - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/howard-pyle-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Rachel Morales’ tonal studies (2 tone and 3 tone) - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/rachel-morales-tonal-studies-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Jessica Nguyen’s tonal studies of Harvey Dunn and Howard Pyle - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jessica-nguyens-tonal-studies-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

John Singer Sargent - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/john-singer-sargent-painting-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Winslow Homer - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/winslow-homer-painting-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Käthe Kollwitz - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/käthe-kollwitz-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Frank Brangwyn - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/frank-brangwyn-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Harvey Dunn - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/harvey-dunn-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Gustave Doré - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/gustave-doré-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Edgar Degas - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/edgar-degas-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/jean-baptiste-camille-corot-painting-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Picture This by Molly Bang - https://amzn.to/2X1Aa2O

Steve Shriver - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/steve-shriver-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

NC Wyeth - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/nc-wyeth-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre - https://amzn.to/2XiOd4z

Wayne Thiebaud - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/wayne-thiebaud-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

H.R. Giger - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/h-r-giger-artwork-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Joe Madureira - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/joe-madureira-comic-draftsmen-s2e15.jpg

Learn to Draw - www.proko.com

Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com

Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko

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