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Vexel Article - Guidelines to Creating Successful Vexels: The Rule of Thirds - by Raelynn
Vexelling is like many other art forms in that it shares the same goal: to present an image. Sometimes the subject matter does all of the work, like a painting of a beautiful woman, or a photograph of a stunning waterfall. However, the composition of the subject within the image is very important no matter what the subject is. Here are some simple guidelines to follow when composing your final piece. This article will discuss the first guideline, the Rule of Thirds.
The rule of thirds has been around for a long time, and is most often used now in photography. Even so, it can be applied in many ways to vexels. The rule of thirds starts by first dissecting your image into three ways horizontally and vertically, to get nine pieces in the image. I will outline a number of ways to use the rule of thirds.
Eyes
Where the eyes of a subject are placed in the image is very important. The power points or points of intersection, usually the top two, are a great place to put the eyes of the subject. A mistake that is often done is placing the eyes in the center of the image, which gives the subject too much headroom. Please note, this guideline works about 90% of the time, however, if there is action going on in the top of the image, then centering the eyes might be successful.
Creative Composition
The rule of thirds is a great way to experiment with creative ways of composing your image. The goal of the rule of thirds is to stray away from just simply centering your subject. Here is an example:
Notice how the face is placed in the top left third, with the one eye being dissected by a line, and also the lips. The arm is placed in the left third.
Now the image is centered, which leaves awkward space on the left. This is an example of how even though the subject matter is pretty, composing it incorrectly can take away from the image.
The off-center guideline is especially useful for vexels of objects. By placing the object off-center, extra visual interest is added because it is not ordinary.
Soon Ill have some more guidelines on composing image, and I hope this one helps by creating a more creative way to present your image.
The rule of thirds has been around for a long time, and is most often used now in photography. Even so, it can be applied in many ways to vexels. The rule of thirds starts by first dissecting your image into three ways horizontally and vertically, to get nine pieces in the image. I will outline a number of ways to use the rule of thirds.
Eyes
Where the eyes of a subject are placed in the image is very important. The power points or points of intersection, usually the top two, are a great place to put the eyes of the subject. A mistake that is often done is placing the eyes in the center of the image, which gives the subject too much headroom. Please note, this guideline works about 90% of the time, however, if there is action going on in the top of the image, then centering the eyes might be successful.
Creative Composition
The rule of thirds is a great way to experiment with creative ways of composing your image. The goal of the rule of thirds is to stray away from just simply centering your subject. Here is an example:
Notice how the face is placed in the top left third, with the one eye being dissected by a line, and also the lips. The arm is placed in the left third.
Now the image is centered, which leaves awkward space on the left. This is an example of how even though the subject matter is pretty, composing it incorrectly can take away from the image.
The off-center guideline is especially useful for vexels of objects. By placing the object off-center, extra visual interest is added because it is not ordinary.
Soon Ill have some more guidelines on composing image, and I hope this one helps by creating a more creative way to present your image.
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Comments (15)
| lorified | i've heard bits and parts of this concept, but you explain and illustrate it very well. thanks! |
Esther |
This is really helpfull! I'm looking forward to more articles of you! |
| milolover | i really like this article! you rock! |
Liz |
Great job :) That's quite helpful. |
Raelynn |
Im glad you guys liked it! Im going to do probably about 5 more guidelines. It's like my writing debut, haha. |
Ilaria |
oh very interesting article! I had never heard of the rule of thirds! |
| Lisette | Great article Raelynn, very helpful! |
| IAmTheWalrus | Wow, I love this article, thanks so much for writing it! This will definitely be very helpful to me when I make my next vexels. I had never even heard of this rule before. |
marta |
Thank you, that was very helpful and made me think about vexels in other way |
Carina |
Great article! The first one that actually had to do with the art itself! |
Seven |
I was already aware of this concept (yaay for being beaten over the head with this kind of stuff in my major) and I found that it's really helped my work (except I still find most people saying "OMG CENTER EVERYTHING!!!!111"). Thanks for sharing it with everyone. This is well explained and should help a lot of people out. :) |
aGAVINA |
Wow I never thought of that. Really helpful =) Thanks |
| chuckeroo | Thanks a lot. I really need to learn about stuff like that =). Thanks for taking the time to write that. |
lilvdzwan |
haha!!! Linda, for a moment I thought too that it was going to be about the woman! :P I always learned about thirds in all different art classes during my study and you are absolutely right about it. In most cases it's very useful and makes the piece/design/drawing/photo look much better. It really does work. I hope you will write more about these subjects, as I said before, you are very good in explaining things. You have a good way off telling and chosing the rights words. great and thank you! |
Linda |
That was great,thank you! I've always heard about the rule of thirds in relation to photography so I've never taken much notice because, well, I don't take photographs :P It's very interesting to see how it works and it certainly applies with vexels. I think it's good to encourage people to play around with the placement of the image, a lot would take the original, vexel it, and then be done.. without taking notice of those kinds of things.. so yes! Great article :) Btw, when I first glanced at it, I thought the first line read "Vexelling is like a beautiful woman" and I thought you were going to go on to say something like "you have to listen to her and treat her right" lol :D |