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Sometimes negative
space can be a positive
thing. Southwestern
Community College Advertising
and Graphic Design instructor
Bob Keeling shows Heather
Adams of Cullowhee how
to capture negative
space in a drawing.
“It’s difficult,
takes a lot of time
and concentration,”
said Adams, “especially
when you are sketching
a gazebo.” Fellow
student Alex Cruz of
Cherokee found the exercise
equally challenging.
Looking at the negative
space forces the artist
to draw what they actually
see and not what their
mind tells them it should
look like, Keeling said.
By doing this, the artist
can capture information
like shape, proportion,
contour and even texture
with better precision
then drawn with a mental
image of what the subject
should look like.
If you’ve never
thought in terms of
negative space before,
the students decided,
you might compare it
to a silhouette.
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Bob
Keeling and Heather
Adams
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Alex Cruz |
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