Easy Watercolor Art Journaling: No Effort Compositions

1. Breaking The Blank Page: Okay. Tell me any of these sound like you. You want to start an art journal, but you can't. Maybe breaking the white page is still a problem. Or maybe you're struggling to let go of your perfectionism. Hi. My name is Fab. I'm an art journaler, illustrator, and a top teacher on Ski. My mission as a teacher is to get you drawing as soon as possible. I want to break your creative blocks, take away your hesitations, and make you put that pen on that page as soon as possible. Knowing for sketch journaling is a great way to keep practicing your arts while documenting your life. One of the reasons why you struggle to start might be composition, because it's right between an empty page and your first line. That's why in this microclass, we'll quickly talk about composition. Yes, Jack, it's a microclass, there's no time for you. And the mystifying this topic might make you break that page faster. So that's what we'll do here. We'll look at examples, identify the components of your tiny page and learn fun ways to come up with different compositions for our pages. Since this is a microclass, there is no time for plasentery, so let's just 2. The Importance of Composition & Why I Lied To You: I know, I know. I said in my Noor sketch arning class that there is no composition, no layout in Noford sketch urning. I lie. I will do whatever it takes to make you start drawing. But it wasn't completely lie. There is only a little bit of composition, not as much as in a traditional sketch journal with the big format. If you do your noford sketch journaling the way I do, you have three components on your page. Date and place, the title, and the drawing. And on the small page, you only have so many ways you can put these down. I'll do like my microphone by the way. Before, I have a saving the microphone here and talking to the brush, but I put the two together, and now I have a microphone. But this doesn't mean you have to keep doing the same way. Date on the top left corner, title in the top right corner, and the drawing is at the bottom. It can get boring and repetitive, especially if you want to put them in a frame like I did after my itertory. So we will look at three fun ways to come up with different compositions if you are having trouble coming up with demonio. And you can share your next page after this class as your class project. No pressure. A little bit of pressure. Jack, to the fab desk. 3. Let’s Play! Composition Bingo: So my first game for you is the composition being row. I came up with 36 different compositions and I put them on a grid for you, six by six. You just going to throw the dice. You will throw one for the rows, one for the columns. Wherever it lends, it will be the composition you are going for. This is one way. Let's throw some and see some examples. I'm throwing two, and Two. An example of that composition could be this one. My usual date and the place is on the top left corner title is located on the bottom right and the drawing is taking let's say top left. This was one example. Let's move on and throw dice again. I have one. Five. An example for this could be this one. I often put the top left corner, my date and the place, and then subject is taking the middle while title is on the top right corner. Very often I use this composition. Let's throw dice one more time. Five and six. An example for this could be could be this one. And the place is on the right edge this time. Subject is taking the bottom. The title is on the top left and clearly I had more to say that it is also very dominant in the composition, and that also makes a difference. That's why I like how this looks because this also draws attention a lot. This was the first way using a dice and the composition bingo. 4. Let’s Play! As It Falls: Our next game to find your next composition is a game of chance. What I did that I cut out because your page, which is here, that it is a small example of a page. I cut it small on purpose, you'll see in a second way. It involves drawing, painting, date place, and a title. By cutting them small, take them in your hand like this and give it a shake and dump it onto your page. Wherever they are closer and whatever orientation they are. This is your next composition for your page. You can do this as many times as you like. Wherever they land close, and in which orientation is going to be our next composition, and this is a very easy and fun way to come up with new compositions. That I guess closer to this in this orientation and another composition. By just cutting four little elements like this that represents the components of your page, you can come up with different compositions very easily and effective. This was the way number two. No 5. Let’s Play! Switch It Up: And the last one is similar to the second one, but more intentional. In here, what I did, I created different components. I really drew them and cut them out. This time, rather than relying on luck, you can actually play around and see how different compositions use a different feeling. For example, this one, very usual, regular, and what if we change it by putting this here and putting the title right in the middle and the drawing would be of course bigger accordingly. Now this page has much different feeling than the first one, if you want to say something stronger, that the title is now very much in focus, or you could try to to its more organized data place, drawing what I want to say. There's a progression here going from top to bottom. What if you use this title, what if you made two lines? And use the smaller drawings. Now it is more compact, Let's bring it to the middle. Now it's more compact this way, or what if you tilted your title? That's also because then it's not so ordinary that it also draws attention more this way when they are tilted the straight. Let's say you drew something like a building or something, it's more narrow and covers the page in a vertical space, then you could use this narrow title. What if you it like that. Then this also has a different feeling. Then this is like a footnote or like I do, what if you dit the triangle shapes behind your titles and add color to them that also draws attention. When I do, of course, it's visible, you can see through the titles, or that instead of this narrow title, if you went with something like that, like that. I guess these are more regular and straightforward. W if you had two things you wanted to draw, then you could take the title to the middle like this. Come up with a composition this way or this way, or this way. This is the third game you can play. That's it for this class. I hope this will help you with your tiny sketchbooks and offered sketch journals with your compositions, and I will see you in the conclusion o. Bye. 6. Composition is Always There…: We did all that. That finished. Thank you for joining me with my first microclass. How is my hair? Depending on your reactions, there might be more of the short format classes, or not? We will see Jack says more because he gets to go home early. We learned three different ways to come up with different compositions for your Nofor sketch journals. If this is the first class of me you took, I have more classes on no for sketch journaling. Make sure to check them out. If there is one thing you take away from this class, I hope it will be that composition is always there even if you don't think about it. But by taking a step back, you can take control of it. Okay. Jack, you forgot my coffee again. And the usual stuff, you know already, follow me, leave a review, post your class project, be a good person, stay creative. Jack is pointing at his watch. This means we are out of