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DAJP # 13 White space
Posted on January 13, 2012 by Gulfsprite in Art Journals, Blog, FeaturedI recently read someone {sorry I don’t remember who} talking about the use of white space in your art journal.
That is so interesting to me. First because that is a huge issue in standard design. And by no means does it mean the color white. It means leaving room for the eye to rest, and creating space for things to breathe.
Now I learned all about white space first from print design and then second from web design. And in my art journals I am really bad about not leaving enough. I like to over crowd and layer my pages to the point of annoyance.
But every one should know about the use of white space and know how to create it without leaving the viewer feeling as if they just didn’t get enough from the design.
I also talked about this in my 30 days class with the use of color as a focus.
White space doesn’t have to automatically mean you must have a minimalist page. It means you have to give the viewer of the page areas without a lot of items so that they have a place to rest their eyes. And that you allow the items on your page to have room around them to rest.
The page above is a good example of using white space in a grungy and quite busy layout.
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the page is very well balanced, and my eye rested and obsorbed, great use of white space
Good post! I, too, come from print and web design background and the use of white is so important. I also tend to forget about it in my art journal. Thanks for the reminder.
you are right with the white
your page is awsome and such a good sample of what you are talking about. It has so much design in it and variations of small details, but with the white it is not overwhelming…
I get what youre talking about here as Its all very well balanced, placed & yet nothings out of order & its still so restful for the eye Very Nice