23 - Unity With Variety

Unity is the presentation of an integrated image and is perhaps the closest thing to a rule as you can get in the art world. Roughly Unity means that a congruity or agreement extsts among the elements in a design according to the design textbook. There are multiple ways to look at unity and one such way to do this is with variety

There are a lot of ways to use Unity with Variety and one way is to to put Emphasis on Unity. A design can have both the ordered quality of unity and the lively quality of variety and still be pleasing to the eye.

This image of the multiple version of Supergirls from DC comics is one such example of Emphasis on Unity. While each character is drawn the same (i.e. the same hair, the same face, the same body shape) there is variety in the costumes each wear. This small variation rewards the viewer as he acknowledges each one, but still holds a unifying feature of being the same person overall.