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Black and white on a page: what Arthur W. Dow's chapter on two values says about notan
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For illustrators, comic and picture-book artists and designers who want to study flat black against flat white. It reports what Chapter IX of Dow's Composition says about dark-and-light, with a short checklist applying it to page design. The chapter is a period art-school text that never mentions comics, so the comic applications are untested inference.
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Black and white on a page: what Arthur W. Dow's chapter on two values says about notan
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For illustrators, comic and picture-book artists and designers who want to study flat black against flat white. It reports what Chapter IX of Dow's Composition says about dark-and-light, with a short checklist applying it to page design. The chapter is a period art-school text that never mentions comics, so the comic applications are untested inference.
Useful starting points
- Settle the line layout before adding black; try several black-and-white arrangements of the same layout.
- Start with flat black and flat white and leave out shading and modelling until the shapes work.
- Arrange the shapes on purpose; the chapter warns that aimless blackening achieves nothing.
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