Negative and Positive Cut Out

Negative and Positive Cut Out
Negative and Positive Cut Out
The negative space in the picture above is the brown region on the owl. Think of negative space as a brighter color different from the darker color in a drawing. Negative space most times is the drawing rather than the background in a picture. So if you were to draw a apple dropping from a tree. The tree would be in the center shaded completely in and so would the apple dropping. Everything that's not shaded in around it would be blank, white or a different color being the positive space. 

In my cut the spaces that were not cut out was the positive so it was easy to see that what was darker than the other spaces is negative. The spaces were easier to see after the final product that it was actually the negative space. Negatives pace can easier to find as long as your focus is clear and know how your positive space would look without it.

It helps to an artist to see in negative space so that you can see what the focus is. Like in my example before with the tree and dropping apple they were what eye is drawn to finally. The background added to it, a.k.a the positive space, is additional  to the picture to look at depth in the image. If we were just looking at the negative space in the owl picture then all we would see is the brown parts, that would be our focus. 

Seeing in negative space does enhance drawings mainly because the viewer won't have to be scrambling to look for the main focus in a picture. The picture would have just positive space, which would not be that much of an image, unless you could work around that fact. On the other hand a picture with more negative space than positive, could be a picture just not showing the environment around the focus space. 

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