Being Creative And Develop Your Own Design
Some people have been born with a gift of knowing creative
design principles. Others, maybe you included, have to struggle
to develop even the tiniest creative skills they do have. One
thing is for certain, you can learn to be more creative. And you
can discover the creative design ideas that other artists use
for inspiration, even if you were not born with a single
creative bone in your body.
It is better for you to make a decision whether when you want to
begin to learn the creative design process as there are several
principles of design. These principles give an over riding basis
on how your design elements will interact with one another, in
your artwork and your designs. Each one influences the others in
an endless tug-of-war within your mind and on your creative
canvas. Your challenge is to learn to create harmony out of all
these principles in your artwork, and to give your designs that
unique blend that can only come from within you. You may wonder
what the creative design principles are?
The creative design principles are as the followings:
1. Balance Balance is the arrangement of different design
elements, on any given piece of artwork, so that there is an
equal distribution of visual weight to the whole piece. Art that
doesn't have balance can leave the viewer uneasy, almost as if
there is something wrong with the piece.
2. Rhythm Rhythm has to do with repeating elements and patterns
in your designs. It also involves variations on those patterns
to provide freshness, and to keep your art from becoming boring.
Repetition can help to unify a piece, or bring different parts
of your artwork together. It can also provide the basic textures
for your design work.
3. Dominance Dominance refers to emphasizing certain parts of
your design so that they get noticed first. Every piece of
artwork needs a focal point which determines where your eyesight
goes first, when you look at it. If you do not have a focal
point your viewer quickly loses interest. Having too many points
of interest will also leave the viewer with no place to focus.
There are many ways to emphasize parts of your design, but the
most important point is to select your focus based on your main
message and, secondly, in consideration of whom your audience
will be.
4. Unity Unity is the final aspect in design, which gives a
feeling that all the elements belong together. Unifying a piece
can involve using various elements, including matching colors,
shapes, textures, groupings, weights, typographies, or sizes.
Unity, in your art, is the overall feeling that brings your
piece together, and gives it wholeness or variety, whichever you
are trying to convey to the viewer.
You have to focus on these four design principles as the basic
of creating your artwork. Lacking one of these, your work will
not be perfect. No matter where your creativity takes you, if
you will try to incorporate balance, rhythm, dominance, and
unity into your artwork, you will be building on the solid
basics of creative design.