Principles+of+Design+-+Balance

= **Principles of Design - Balance** =
 * By: Calvin Lindroth and Yukari Seki Romero**


 * What is balance?**
 * Balance is either equality in the terms of symmetry and also in the way of coloring.

.**The other way you can achieve balance is by using colors or size and placement of objects.**
 * [[image:symmetrical-balance.jpg align="left"]]Balance can be achieved in four ways**
 * The first way is achieving symmerty, this can be done by drawing a line through the image or object and then making sure that everything in the object or immage is in line and equally as big
 * You can acheive asymetrical symemtry by for example having one big square on the right side of the centre of the drawing and then using four small squares to represent the other large square.
 * The third and last way to achieve balance is by using colors.**
 * Our eyes are easily pulled in any direction if something does catch our eyes, for example: if you have a picture with a blue backgroun and then have bright yellow sun, the eyes will instantly focus on the sun first.
 * The fourth and final way of achieving balance is called Radical Balance:**
 * This is where you place all objects so that they radiate from the center of the screen, this is very effective in order to make the viewer focus on the middle of the screen. This works because all of the elements in the picture leads your eyes to the middle.

Here, in order to balance out the color of the black apple you must use a larger gray apple, this is because black has a greater way of contrasting opposed to how gray contrast to the white background. In order to balance this we would need to place a larger gray apple next to it.
 * An example for how balance with color and contrast works:**

In this picture there are two dancers, in order to make the dancers look proportional you can see the smaller can in the left of the screen. The small watering can on the left balances the picture and makes the different dancers look proportional.
 * Another example of how to balance out a picture sucessfully:**

In this picture the artist has used both repetition and color in order to catch the viewers eye, the artist has placed 4 girls in a row which makes the viewer instantly focus on them, but he also painted them red, red is a very bright vivid color. The color red makes us focus on the girls and the top right of the screen.
 * Another part of balancing a picture by using color, is making someone focus on a special place.**

This is a perfect balance because the white and the black is reflecting eachother.
 * Another example of a perfectly balance picture is the Yin and Yang**

It is a web site explaining and giving examples for how balance works. This is where our sources. We did get some of our information from here as well. Alternate website Yin and Yang symbol: [|Here's the Yin & Yang]
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