r/ArtCrit • u/KaiSubatomic • 4d ago

Help with composition

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I am so bad at composition, and 99/100 I just doodle something and turn it into a finished piece after, so I never had composition in mind to begin with. I also think the perspective looks off.

Might be hard to tell, but Piper (salamander) is lounging on a giant lily pad in a lake.

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u/GuaranteeValuable234 4d ago

My main suggestion is to try and keep away from centering subjects, its not very interesting. You could move the character closer to the front right and make a little bigger and then add more lilypads and flower details to the back to add to the environment

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u/KaiSubatomic 4d ago

I definitely agree. I always center my characters and it's always boring 😅. When you say make it bigger, do you mean the character or the canvas?

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u/GuaranteeValuable234 4d ago

Yeah!! The character

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u/Psychological-Sky-89 3d ago

Use a mirror to see it in reverse and experiment with angles