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Every artist is a juggler
Artists must know how to juggle the visual elements (such as forms,
colors, lights and darks) within an image to make their compositions
compelling and balanced. The artist must take into consideration
placement, proportion, clarity, and direction, so that the individual
visual elements create an optical equilibrium. A balanced arrangement
of these elements may be horizontal (picture a scale, with objects of
equal weight on each side), vertical (like a ladder, which distributes
weight equally between top and bottom), or radial (with weight
dispersed around a center point, like the rays of the sun).
Put your sense of balance to the test
Look at these three squares, each with a black disk inside, and click
on the square/disk arrangement that is most pleasing to your eye.
Next: Proportion
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