Video: Direction in Two-Dimensional Design

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Direction in two-dimensional design is created with imaginary lines across the design field. Create direction with tips from an artist in this free design video.

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But again we just automatically, we can line up all these little corners, and we get ourselves a nice imaginary line, we don't have to draw it, we've done it in our heads. So triangles, because they're very pointy, I don't know why they seem more pointy than the squares but they do, triangles have even more ways to sort of point you in the direction. If you want somebody to look at that square down there, if you've got important message down there, then hey, you can build kind of a way to kind of focus that. You can actually sort of build almost an arrow, "look here", by the arrows pointing that way, but also by the edges. They sort of create this line that really activates your eye and helps it go down to here. There are other ways to get your eye to go down there, but just in terms of how you place your shapes you can make the eye go wherever you want it to. So we can try this this way, and sort of lead our eye that way. And if we pull it all like this, we've got to create a more linear thing, you're going to get your eye to move down to there.

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Direction in Two-Dimensional Design

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