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Goal: Arrange visual elements so the viewer knows where to look.

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Key ideas

Composition is the arrangement of everything inside the frame. Artists use it to create focus, balance, movement, and mood.

Useful strategies include:

• Create a clear focal point.
• Use size, contrast, colour, or detail to show importance.
• Avoid placing every object with equal spacing.
• Use leading lines to guide the eye.
• Leave breathing room around important elements.
• Crop deliberately.

Creative challenge

Make three tiny thumbnail sketches for one idea:

1. Place the subject in the centre.
2. Place the subject off-centre.
3. Use a strong diagonal or leading line.

Choose the strongest thumbnail and develop it.

Reflect

• What does the viewer notice first?
• Does the eye move through the image?
• Is anything distracting from the main idea?