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We’ve talked a lot about Typography, offered links to a ton of good font choices and touched on typography layout within your card design … more articles on all of these subjects exist in the Community Blog, but let’s narrow in on Font Choice today and how the wrong choice can cause declines and the difference between a marketable design and an unmarketable design. Such as ...

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So let’s talk about Composition: Unprofessional

Distracting Elements and/or Background: This really should be fairly easy to understand. It does apply mostly to photographs, though could apply to digital compositions as well. It’s one of those Photography 101 lessons to compose your photograph without things like; poles sticking out of the heads of your subjects, branches and dead leaves in front of your subject, body parts that don’t belong to your subject, etc. Remember; if it does not add to your overall image then it’s a distraction ...

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Let’s continue with a visual review and discussion of the areas listed in GCU’s Submission Guidelines. Today we’ll keep this series going with the second area in the COMPOSITION grouping of the Submission Guidelines which is:

COMPOSITION: Balance of Elements

The Submission Guidelines state this:

A feeling of visual equality. Objects, values, colors, textures, shapes, forms, etc., are used in creating balance in a composition. Balance is a visual interpretation of gravity in the design. Large, dense elements appear to be heavier while smaller elements appear to be lighter. In art ...  Read Entire Article

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Let me begin this week’s discussion about Commercial Use elements and their associated licenses by stating very clearly; “I am no expert”!  What I offer here today is from knowledge acquired during my own research over the past few years of reading and respecting the terms given by the creator for each element I wish to use.  With this information base I can get you on the road to better understanding what to look for and some of the associated terms you’ll find out there.

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MARKETING TUESDAY:

Great article from Freelance Switch.com for Building a Killer Online Portfolio in 9 Easy Steps.   All artists & designers, whether you sell your artistic creations or offer your services, needs to have a portfolio of your BEST work easily accessible. Here is my online portfolio as a example of what you can do to make an impression, and this site is what got me found and signed by a licensing agency this past November: Art for License. I hope you are inspired to give yourself a strong online presence!