Creating Depth without Perspective

There will be a projection to the front of the picture plane if the tone, either dark or light, of a line or figure strongly contrasts with the ground.

If the edge of a line or figure is very sharp, it will create a stereoscopic projection into the foreground

Figures or line uniform in intensity with the ground will recede. Lines or figures slightly contrasting will seem in the middle distance.

An area that is not completely contained by lines will appear to recede. The openness of an area suggests depth and recession.

A heavier weight of line and stronger tone will create more frontal dominance. This will also be true of any area that such a line encloses.

(This passage is a paraphrase of Graham Collier, Form, Space and Vision.)

Comments welcome.

Useless baloney! Tired of Modern Art? See-

LOL! I was waiting for you reveal your blatant ignorance. EVERYTHING in that 'passage' is true.

I guess that's what happens when you rely on a COMPUTER to do all your thinking for you, huh FANNI?

You don't know Shee-Yat!

If anyone agrees or disagrees with Collier's observations, it would be interesting to hear opposing or supporting arguments, but let's try not to let this thread degenerate into another useless series of personal attacks.

A look at your work reveals how useless this advise is. Glad you think everything I do is on the computer. I wish it were that easy and when it becomes that way I'll use the computer exclusively. Tired of Modern Art? See-

Yawn - I see you copy and paste your tired ass replies as well as you copy and paste things in your artwork.

Sure it is!! Just press CTRL+C and CTRL+V

Sorry - I forgot to mention - by the time you figure out how to do that, you'll be sorely beHIND thousands of digital artists who've used the computer exclusively for YeaRS and are doing so today. Judging by your rendition of a simple BoX, I suggest you get a manual and stick with the computer.

There is a web-page http://www.hash.com/users/threechickens/colourtheory which covers basic color theory. It is very basic really, but has some illustrations that might be interesting. If you seach color theory - or something like that - there is a lot on the net on colors.

If you can't/won't load up examples of what you are working with, you could perhaps find some illustrations on the net that cover what you want to discuss and refer to it here.

It is very basic really, but has some

We are not really talking about 'basic' color theory here. How colours can be used to create frontality or recession in pictures would be on point, however. What is your experience of that?

On the most simple level, contrasting colours can create a foreground and a background

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Look up the 'push/pull' teachings of Hans Hoffman.
http://www.hanshoffman.com/

'Artist Frank Stella sang his praises in his American Heritage magazine essay, 'The Artist of the Century.' Students in America’s art schools today are reaping what he sowed through his 40 years of teaching. Artists around the world employ his color theories.'