Fundamentals of Composition

In this book, the author, on the basis of his work as an artist and his experience as an instructor, aims to understand and explain how a painting is born. With the works by the outstanding Russian and international artists as the example, he reveals the process of preparing sketches and discusses the importance of collecting reference material when creating a realistic work of art. V A. Mogilevtsev introduces the reader to the elements of visual design and talks about the most important of them. The text is accompanied by a large number of illustrations. The book is well illustrated, and it makes it the most understandable and convincing for young artists. This book will…