SPN Art: See Dean Grin
As you may have noticed, I love the mid-century "modern" cartoon style. To rec some things I've been enjoying lately: the Cartoon Modern blog, Tick Tock Toys packaging design archives, Mid-Century Illustrated flickr pool for illustrated ephemera, Retro Kid flickr pool for illustrated children's books, and animated shorts (my YouTube playlist).
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as for composition, this is nicely balanced. most people tend to have an intuitive sense for what looks good, because the idea of creating a successful composition in general is just "making something that is appealing to the eye." the rule of thirds just basically says that any of the green dots on this picture are places it'd be a good idea to put whatever you want to be the focus of the composition because the eye is naturally drawn there anyway. the eye is also more naturally drawn to simple shapes as opposed to complex ones, which (along with our psychological attraction to faces) is why we tend to look at people's heads first in any given composition featuring people. usually diagonal movements within the composition are the most successful. um. but you really don't have to get so caught up in all that, this works pretty well; the only suggestion i'd have if i were critiquing would be to somehow make the figures a wee bit less centralized, but the background elements balance it out nicely and create interest around them so they work fine just as they are.
i hope that was helpful? i could talk for a long, long time about composition, there's a lot to say about it, but i think really the idea of "moving stuff around till it feels good" is one of the best ways to do it anyway, and this is a really nice little piece. kudos!
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I had the same thought about the figures being smackdab in the middle. And with all the little elements scattered around, it just, I don't know, feels kind of cluttered.
Thanks so much. :D
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