Monday, August 18, 2014

Density: Literary and Artistic Density

Another word for detail and kaleidoscopic imagery, is density.

Density simply means filling up a whole page with lines, words, or detail. It's a little trick I picked up when I was teaching myself how to write (&) draw. 

Artists. Some artists are famous for their artwork's density:

Todd McFarlane. Moebius. Katsuhiro Otomo. Jim Lee. Joe Mad. Frank Frazetta. Syd Mead. Corey Jackson.

Modern art and science fiction in particular are highly equated with raw density. Cramming every space on the page with texture and form.

I can do this only a quarter of the time with my art. It takes a lot off concentration and labor of the arm. Not two of my strongest traits. 

But there is a writer's equivalent of artists's density, which is a hallmark of my own style. I believe online young people have decided to refer to it as "wall of text" and/or "tl;dr" (too long, didn't read).

I'd label it things like that, too....if I was illiterate and didn't know how to read. Which I'm NOT illiterate, and I DO know how to read. You have to know how to read in order to write. Makes enough sense, right?

Word Density is a HUGE part of my literary composition page style. 

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