Crowds - Mucha

Ed suggested we look at some Mucha painting for crowds. These are the ones that interest me.

Ed's notes on crowds

- Treat crowds as abstract shapes

- Pick up T-Shirt silhouette or pants

- Block in architectural shapes

- use dark and light in shadow shapes (this can be done with prismacolor pencils over markers)

- play with shapes and tones

- lead the eye by breaking up the space w/ groupings of people

- observe first and try to create a nice pattern with crows groupings

- go back later and support it

- it is more important to get outside shapes pretty well

- the further back we go the flatter the elipses get

- go back into sketches and make it better by memory

- make sure you know where the group plane is