emphasis... EMPHASIS!!!!

Focal Point
Focal Point is basically where your eye is drawn to on any design.















Your eye is drawn to the middle of the sparks just above the barrel of the guns making that the focal point of this piece.

Contrast

In this image, the silhouette of the ship stands out from the sunset and create a focal point. 

Isolation






















While small, the explosion is a focal point based on the fact that it is far away from the other ship taking up a larger portion of the image. it's "isolated"

Placement

The placement of the emphasized ship is in the middle and larger than the other two, making you eye look more into the detail of that ship over the others.

Single Element

The single ship surrounded by nothing specific or detailed is the only element in the picture to look at so that all your eye is drawn to.

Whole Over Parts
















In this image your eye isn't drawn to any one figure because they're all evenly spaced, the same size, and same color so it puts emphasis on the entire image over one or two figures.

Unity (not the bad video game)

Unity
Gestalt
A unified configuration or pattern of visual elements whose properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.
But that's boring and hard to understand. Basically it's the patter you find in something that makes you feel a certain way about the image. It's all based on opinion.

In this scene, happiness is glowing as she does in the rest of the movie. The fact that she glows makes the colors around her blend in reminding me of  warm fuzzy feeling which is what she's supposed to convey. She has a gestalt of happiness.

Proximity
It's basically the feeling of unity through grouping together. Placing objects in a frame closer together give the impression that they are somehow related.























Through the grouping together of all the bird in this shot, You know that they're are a group. They stick together they are a unit.

Repetition
As the term implies, something simply repeats in various parts of the design to relate the parts to each other. The element that repeats may be almost anything: a color, a shape, a texture, a direction, or an angle.
















Through almost copy and pasting the moon fish from finding Nemo AND placing them in close PROXIMITY to each other you know they they are related in some way and therefor have 'unity'.

Continuation
A line or edge that continues from one form to another, allowing the eye to move smoothly through a composition.
Pretty self-explanatory.

At the risk of overusing this movie, the orbs on the wall are an excellent representation of continuation. If you pick a row it's very easy to follow that row looking at each orb but only through the combination of all the rows do you see that it's a wall.

The Grid 
It's also pretty self-explanatory.

It's very apparent that this is a good example of a grid, minus the center division.

Varied Repetition
It's the same as repetition but with a slight difference between the individual products.

The balloons while very similar are slightly different in color making it repetition but varied.

Narrative Artwork 
Pretty easy concept; The story that is told in an artwork.





























This very sad scene completely tells the story of their inability to conceive a child.
Don't worry. I hate myself for choosing this scene.

The Magic of Color

Additive Color

This obviously digitally created profile of Sora is a good show of additive color.

Subtractive Color

This watercolor of Sora from Kingdom Hearts Is representative of Subtractive Color

Value Of Color

If you look at the shadows on the bottom of his shorts, the darker value of the red to show that there is a shadow on his pants.

Intensity Of Color

The intensity in the gleamed parts of Kairi's hair is a very intense red compared to the rest.


Warm and Cool Colors

This image is perfect for warm and cool colors. Warm on the left and cool on the right.

Color Dominance

The dominant color is blue drawing your eye to the only thing that isn't; the moon.