Spirals & style
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Why is it that, a large portion of the time, when someone makes a piece that is in a cartoony, stylized... Style, they have spirals in the design? I'm not bashing the practice, I do it myself, but what about spirals gives something style?
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2. Sprials are cool and fun to draw? I've thrown some light swirlies in a few sky boxes I've painted, not sure why myself.
I don't necessarily think that sprials as is give something "style" per se, but I guess they're whimsical. This is an odd topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence
I did use a spiral design myself, many years ago when I was drawing creatures for a card game I was making but never finished. I made a series of monsters that were supposed to consist of solid darkness. It wasn't in a cartoony style, but I envisioned them being pure black with dark blue or purple outlines, and little perfect swirly spirals randomly around them. Intended to sort of look like pouring colored liquid into a draining sink, but in reverse, as darkness "leaks" into the world from another realm or something. I should keep working on that...
Also, spirals are fancy and probably pleasing to look at by nature or something. The Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, that stuff.
http://the-ultimate-evil.blogspot.com/2009/07/pedophile-symbols-and-codes-update_3771.html
The spiral is just simple to draw, interesting to look at. It has rhythm and pattern. It can depict depth as in a tunnel, or spike. Pretty interesting really.