visual language: depth

Using depth and three dimensionality make a piece feel more real, and believable. With that I think it can affect storytelling and narrative- if a piece appears to work as a real world (even if not the real world) then the viewer/ reader may feel or respond more emotionally towards it.

For this composition I wanted to practice drawing interiors so got some books out of the library for reference material. I started looking at one on cafes. The limit of three figures in such an environment would create quite an eerie and lonely atmosphere.

It was suggested that I look at more extreme composition elements. I put a cloche (carried by a hand) in the foreground large, but I think it could be larger. I lost some of the figure element with it, so added a reflection of a face in it. As it's so close maybe the viewer may be thinking they see themselves as the character in it.