Author Archives: Tre Bobo

  Texture in design is used to communicate the tactile feeling of a design. Texture can communicate emotion and help to understand the nature of things. Like most design concepts texture can be both physically and virtually represented in a … Continue reading →

Layering in art is used to make a design more visually interesting and can be used to make effects that wouldn’t have been made otherwise. Layers have been created through aby combination of words, lines, shapes or planes. The book … Continue reading →

  Color is extremely useful in design for things like conveying mood, emotions or to add visual emphasis to through contrast to a visual design, by using things like complementary or analogous colors a designer can create high contrast or … Continue reading →

Motion in a two dimensional, static space like in graphic comics are most of the time implied using implied lines, scaling, cropping, repetition, overlap, rotation, and/or shape or a combination of any of these techniques. In the visual example I … Continue reading →

The idea of Scale to a graphic designer is a very useful skill to implement into a design. In Graphic Design: The New Basics defines scale as the size that objects are in relation to the design as a whole. … Continue reading →

Framing is an important aspect of graphic novels and creative design as a whole. From reading Graphic Design: The New Basics I learned that a border is not the only way an object can be framed some, for example, can … Continue reading →