I drew that this evening for design class. This week in design class we're learning abstract compositions and color themes in Illustrator (or Inkscape.) I used the gestalt principles of common fate ( the hair ), a lot of similarity and a little bit of symmetry in the first two, a little bit of continuation I think is happening in the second one, and in some of the features in the third one perhaps, and perhaps some proximity in each of them. I don't think I used closure anywhere that I can see, and I think the reason is that I like to fill in everything, and closure is the opposite, leaving something out that's implicit. For the colors, for the first one, I picked bright gradient colors because those are my favorite colors. I don't have a favorite color, I have a favorite saturation, and it's full saturation, although the white is mixed in too to increase brightness. So, bright purple, orange and green because they go together without contrasting too much. F...
