# Modules Overview

Each module tab takes your uploaded reference photo and breaks it down the way an art teacher would break it down on a whiteboard — one visual idea at a time. Every viewer inside a module is independent, with its own sliders, so you can push one study further without disturbing the others.

![Reference photo used for every example on this page](examples/reference-photo.jpg)

*The same reference photo is used for every example throughout these docs, so you can compare what each module does to it side by side.*

| Module | What it's for |
|---|---|
| **[Composition](composition.md)** | Where the eye goes, how the frame is organised, and how to restructure it. |
| **[Value](value.md)** | Light and dark, grouped simply enough to plan a painting from. |
| **[Shapes](shapes.md)** | Reducing the photo to its big, readable shapes. |
| **[Color](color.md)** | Palette, flattening, and colour relationships, separate from value. |
| **[Edges](edges.md)** | Line quality — what's crisp, what's lost, and where forms change. |
| **[Illustrate](illustrate.md)** | Turning a study into a finished, stylised piece. |

## A typical workflow

1. Start in **Value** to understand the big light/dark pattern before anything else — most paintings live or die on this.
2. Move to **Shapes** to see if those value groups read as clean, simple shapes.
3. Check **Composition** to see where the gaze path actually goes, and whether that matches your intent.
4. Use **Edges** to decide which boundaries deserve a crisp line and which should melt into their neighbour.
5. Bring it together in **Color** once the structure holds up.
6. Use **Illustrate** if you want a stylised finished piece rather than a raw study.

None of this is prescriptive — plenty of artists jump straight to Shapes, or work Color first. The modules are independent so you can work in whatever order matches how you think.