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(P), sketching the structure that would tell the story. Since he was going to create
the water from a single diamond shape he would modify, he only needed to sketch
the proportions and placement of his elements. He used the Artboard tool (Shift-O)
to adjust the artboard to fit the composition.
He next auditioned his basic elements, coloring them, and combining some of them
into larger elements. To determine the colors for the piece, he first chose the
background color: “My base color is usually very obnoxious, acidic, or
uncomfortable so I tend to dull down the other colors in the piece,” he said. He
selected his final choice of four colors and saved them as a color group (Boat) by
clicking the New Color Group icon in the Swatches panel.
To keep the process of building up the art from basic elements as fluid as possible,
he found a method that minimized working with panels, and allowed him to keep
his attention on the artboard. Selecting a diamond (or cluster of diamonds) that he
wanted to duplicate and modify, he copied, used Paste in Front (or Back), and then
used the Free Transform tool (E). He often ungrouped his clusters to freely modify
and randomize a cluster by transforming some of the individual diamonds.
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Rudmann's initial sketch to organize
placement of his forms and
their proportions, cropped to
the artboard
