Two-Dimensional Design Experimenting

Video Transcript

"Another way to sort of shake up your thinking and find more possibilities in what you have around you, is actually to switch things around. Start with a dark piece of paper as your background, and put white shapes on top of it, and already that kind of mixes things up. That changes the whole gestalt of the thing somehow, to do it this way. So I've cut myself out sort of a tree shape, I'm going to cut out another tree shape very quickly. And these don't have to be exact or anything because the idea is you want to quickly be playing around with these to try to figure out what works. Now there we go, I've got some interesting black shapes happening here. You might decide, "Well, maybe I need a little movement in here, so what happens if I do something like that, well that doesn't really work, that might work". But again, it's shaking up your ideas and playing around with possibilities, and notice that I've chosen a square to work in. This is going to look a lot different if I get rid of, and I do this sort of thing all the time, I take another piece of paper and sort of scootch it in to see if it looks better if I change the shape of my field. Is that more effective, or is it more effective if I do this?"