I love your compositions so much! Composition is my weakest point as an artist, I’m curious if you have any tips/recommendations/things you do/exercises? I want to learn from people who are doing it well!
Fortunately, composition is technically VERY simple! The hard thing about it is training your brain to actually stick to the "rules" that are, in retrospect, obvious.
These are the pillars of composition to me:
-Have your focus be the center of the frame.
-Lead the eye from the focus to secondary details through the use of color and positioning.
-Everything else in the picture simply does not matter that much.
Common mistakes:
-Overdetailing everything regardless of the plane it's on or position in the frame.
-Nailing the composition, but picking light that shifts the focus away from the subject unintentionally.
-Awkward cut-offs at the edges.
Here are some of my pieces and how I applied that theory to them - I'm not saying they're to be upheld as perfect examples of composition! Rather I just want to show my thinking in practice:
(Notice that despite being in the background and having way less detail, Astarion is still the focus point due to his color palette!)
Like I said, it's mostly about changing the way that you THINK while drawing and holding back from overdoing things when there is no need to. It's a skill you develop by being present while you practice, and doing a little bit of planning before even touching pen-to-paper. In time, it becomes second-nature.
This should go without saying, also, but rules are made to be broken! There are instances where doing the opposite of everything I just said can be VERY effective, but it takes understanding the base theory of such things first to apply these exceptions correctly.
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