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Old Mar 18th, 2010, 02:54 PM       
No no no, you misunderstand. You're absolutely FINE on The Lake Guardians' composition. Look:




The boat in the foreground is eventual the center of attention, the vertical sword, parallel to the edge of the picture, leads the eye up, and every element successfully leads the eye around the picture without being stupidly pointed. True, it's flat and somewhat stiff, but it's well composed. Now compare that with the cave one:



THe eye starts at the cave entrance (the darkest point), the linear elements lead the eye to the right (over the bell and sarcophagus), and points the eye up to the light (the brightest point). This is fine, but the eye gets stuck going from POINT A to POINT B, there needs to be more elements to lead the eye BACK in a circular continuation, or the composition just "doesn't work".

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Old Mar 18th, 2010, 06:58 PM       
Oh, the first picture. Okay, it's really nicely drawn but you have two problems.




The transition effect between the book scene and the unicorn scene just isn't enough, and the two are fighting each other rather than working as a single composition. I don't have a scanner anymore, so if you're going to have to put up with some MS Paint bullshit rather than an original sketch.


The unicorn scene is pretty much the focus, while everything in what I assume is the "real" or present scene is background action. But, like I said, the two fight each other. IF, if, you would want to do another draft of the picture, I would recommend squashing the bottom scene, giving it high light/dark contrast with a limited color pallet and muted highlights so that the unicorn scene could stand out better. I would angle the old man's head to the right and have him face slightly left, have the characters closer together to emphasize crowding and hunch them over. Then I would recommend give the transition effects more prominence. Shitty MS Paint splash sketch:

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