Discover how to avoid the most common pitfalls when creating composition for your image. While Reynante Martinez and I was reviewing your art (675 comments!), we noticed a certain pattern. There are many common mistakes, that are actually very easy to avoid.
Composition Tutorial
In this composition tutorial I compiled 10 super common mistakes. I’m sure that after watching it you will be inspired to try these solutions in your new artwork.
What will you learn?
• Why having a strong point of interest is super important
• Why darkness isn’t your friend
• How many points of interest can hurt your artwork
• Simple thing that we often forget to do
• Why having a good microphone is crucial when recording video tutorials?
Pro-Lighting: Skies Giveaway WINNER
I’m excited to announce the Pro-Lighting: Skies giveaway winner, chosen by True Random Generator.
Mc Gavish – congrats, you’ve won!
Please contact me using this form and I will arrange the rest with the help of Blenderguru crew.
Sayan Mondal
Congratulations to the winner and great tips.
-S.
Gleb Alexandrov
Thanks for sharing your work, Sayan. Keep us posted about your website, I think you have a great potential.
Nik Fiorentino
great explanation Gleb!
Gleb Alexandrov
Thank you, Nik. After my microphone f#cked up, I thought my explanation would fail completely.
Rico Cilliers
congrats to the winner, and thanks for the great advice! I feel this has been a very educational experience for everyone involved. you guys rock so hard!
Gleb Alexandrov
Rico, for me it was… I don’t know how to describe it properly. I’ve never seen SO MANY good art made in Blender.
And Reyn and I are super happy to give our feedback.
Gleb Alexandrov
And Rico, I’m looking forward to your next artwork, as the previous ones blew my mind.
Rico Cilliers
Thanks Gleb, very encouraging! Your high expectations will drive me to excel! 😀 Keep doing what you’re doing.
Uncle Snail
Thanks for this tutorial! It has a lot of great tips in it.
I love how your videos have so much personality. (Guys with cigarettes sticking their heads in, people hanging out of windows, and mics going out.) 😛
And yeah, there were many great artworks!
The main thing that sets you apart from the rest as well, is I think you have the best looking images of all the Blender tutorial people. 🙂
Gleb Alexandrov
Haha, while I was making this video today the whole lot of things happened. I wonder how the microphone can go out AND turn on in the last 5 minutes of filming. The truth is out there, like Mulder said.
And we just have fun! 🙂
Lcq92
thanks again Gleb and Reynante, this week was so much fun !
Gleb Alexandrov
Pretty crazy at the same time. Overwhelming amount of nice pictures and comments. I thought I wouldn’t sleep at all :)))
Adam
Congrats! And thanks for the feedback on my robot! I’ll get around to finishing it soon 🙂
MBNKTY | Emily
Congrats to Mc Gavish, and thanks for the amazing experience, guys! Pretty helpful tips ;}
Darkfire9825
Thanks for the great feedback! Its been a fun week :)!
j z
Great contest idea, and getting focused critique and suggestions from you guys is a prize in itself. Thanks for doing this, inspirational!
Oktansinnt
Many thanks Reynante & Gleb!
Pretty cool that there are things like your session!!
And of course congrats to the winner.
Mark Anthony
Congrats to McGavish 🙂 – and thanks again to Gleb and Reyn… I guess we’ll have to wait for the next session – at least until Belarus has stocked back up with good coffee ;D… Looking forward to watching the video when I get home from work (they won’t let me watch videos here :C) I loved this, and really looking forward to the next one!
Gleb Alexandrov
If the supplies run out here, I’ll stock Costa Rican coffee (I love it more than anything).
…And I hope to release my own coffee brand some day, heheh 🙂
Mark Anthony
I’ll buy that! ‘Gleb’s Special Blend’…. comes with a safety warning!
Mc Gavish
Thank you Gleb and Reyn! I saw here a lot of really amazing artworks.
Gleb Alexandrov: I sent you a message.
Gleb Alexandrov
Thanks! I replied to your message and I will make sure that you’ll get your Pro-Lighting: Skies free copy today or tomorrow.
Congrats!!
Mc Gavish
Thank you!
Niranjan Raghu
Congratulations to the winner! =) Great pointers, btw. I think we read(and use) too much about the rule of thirds and/or other composition rules, and forget that it’s an RGB image, haha!
I can’t wait for more mass-sharing of art to ensue. It’s one thing to browse through art on art sites, and it’s completely another to have something so unique (like last week) that I can’t describe it! You guys are awesome. =)
Gleb Alexandrov
Niranjan, I agree that it’s different thing (and different context, what is even more important). I like the interactivity too, it adds so much to the experience.
I’m thinking of running a competition of some kind next time. Any ideas?
Niranjan Raghu
Off the top of my head, that sounds like a great idea already.
Personally, I love competitions and challenges (like WeeklyCGC) because they’re a literal hotspot for quirky and new ideas, and art. I also think that it’s the whole learning process that matters, not the prize that’s included at the end. I certainly think making a competition from CreativeShrimp will be a great opportunity for preparing, and sharing new art.
Having said that, though, I think WeeklyCGC covers the small, fast, ones, and there are a hodge-podge of other organisations (BlenderGuru, CG Record, CG Terminal, to name but a few) that run their own, larger competitions for renders. I do remember a few from BlenderGuru for animations, but not specifically so (please do correct me on that if I’m wrong).
So, I think the only thing left is to start a really high level, gruelling one, like a competition to write, direct, and produce a CG short film within a specific topic and specific constraints, in six months, with an update post every quarter-year. Definitely not critique, but just to indicate that they’re still going strong, or something of the sort.
It’ll take a mountain of work, and most probably won’t be plausible without much preparation, but it’s what I think is missing in the industry I’ve seen so far, and it’s keeping with the contextual difference, simply because of the magnitude of the event.
Gleb Alexandrov
I really like the scale and the ambition of your idea! Makes me imagine a really huge event going on 🙂 Not sure though if I can handle such thing right now. But we can try to come up with something that I CAN handle, and that is still more ambitious than a quick 2-3 weeks competition.
You made me think.
Niranjan Raghu
Haha, I’m just glad I can be really blunt, and expect that it will be considered rationally. And I’m also glad we’re having this conversation. =)
oren
you are
great!!!