Identify whether a weak image is failing because of drawing, perspective, value, light, color, composition, design, or rendering

Diagnose whether a weak image is failing in drawing, perspective, value, light, color, composition, design, or rendering.

What it is

This capstone combines drawing accuracy, perspective, value, light, color, composition, design, and rendering in one diagnosis. You separate these areas when an image is not working.

You review your own finished or nearly finished work and check each category in turn. The task applies these skills to a complex, imaginative piece under deadlines or other constraints.

You can check it when

• ✓List specific problems in a weak personal piece by category, then point to where each problem appears in the image.
• ✓Compare an older weak image with a newer one and identify which categories improved and which still limit the image, using your own observations.

Related skills

• Constructing objects from imagination
• Inventing scenes without constructing every guide mechanically
• Organizing values before rendering
• Inventing lighting consistently from imagination
• Inventing believable color schemes
• Focal point and visual hierarchy
• Plausibility (functional, structural; avoiding arbitrary detail)
• Rendering from imagination while maintaining structural clarity