As a digital artist, it’s your job to find order in chaos. At any given moment, you have to be thinking about things like 3D asset placement, light, composition, action and expression, just to name a few.

Then you need to organise all of this thinking into scenes that tell a story. Needless to say, it’s easy to get overwhelmed!

Central to the idea of finding order in chaos is composition.

Strong composition makes use of techniques that catch your eye and draw you in – spending time with the art.

A weak composition can result in a confusing or bland image that a viewer passes over quickly, or worse, completely ignores.

No one wants their art to be ignored. Learning to harness the power of advanced composition skills can help your images connect properly with the viewer, leave them with a feeling about your work – they’ll more likely take action and bookmark you as a favourite artist.

In this coaching course, I am going to show you an Advanced Guide to Composition so that you can:

• Identify the artistic potential in any 3D set
• Never have your renders be ignored again.
• Become fluent with the language of composition : the eight key elements and eight key principles
• Powerfully communicate with your viewers on where to look and what to feel when they see your art.

We’ll learn together in exploring composition techniques across three appealing 3D sets:-

• The city set
• The canyon set
• The mountain lakes set

We’ll be using Blender to explore camera set ups in these scenes where you’ll be able to follow along since we’ll provide this as an asset pack as part of the course. You’ll only need to know some basic Blender techniques in terms of moving and using the virtual camera around these scenes.

As well as learning theory and using an outstanding set of renders to demonstrate great looking composition, we’ll encourage you to use your own 3D software for the weekly assignments.

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This group is to help you reach your higher creative level, so that you can have a bigger impact and generate more influence from your artwork.

This is a trusted and safe place for you to get support, feedback, accountability, camaraderie and new perspectives from people you can trust who have similar creative aspirations to you.

We promise to support you in every way we can by sharing knowledge, techniques, resources and mindsets to realise your creative goals.

When does this coaching group Start?

The group will start in mid November and run for 6 weeks on Sundays at 19:00 GMT (London).

Proven Experience

I have been inspiring, promoting, educating and connecting digital artists since 2010. I’ve published over 125 issues of our magazines 3D Art Direct, Digital Art Live and VISNews, with in-depth interviews of fantastic artists that inspire others with their work.

As a result of publishing these magazines I have selected and curated hundreds of artworks that are suitable for promotion, which includes checking that the art has good composition!

I’ve hosted and organised over 200 live events to educate digital artists. Our webinars provide an interactive, informative and fun experience for our community.

Areas of Artistic Growth

With 6 weeks of learning, we’ll look at the following:-

• Composition foundation module : what makes good composition?
• Compositions Concepts  module 1 : Planning, stories and mindsets
• Compositions Concepts  module 2 : The virtual camera and frame
• Compositions Concepts  module 3 : Fore/mid/background and the elements.
• We’ll go wide and deep on 50 different composition techniques
• We’ll examine six compelling 3D sets using Blender, providing practical learning.
• Composition with characters
• Throughout the course we’ll study the portfolio of VUE artist Artur Rosa, an outstanding artist who is highly respected on his use of composition
• We’ll look at three vital mindsets when planning your artwork in the first place

Here’s How it Works

6 weeks of Support and Training

Each week we’ll have a Zoom webinar meeting (up to 1.5 hours) composed of training , coaching and follow up.

The topics of these training sessions will be based on the above, but we’ll pay special attention to coaching you through your sticking points.

This is where everyone will share wins, goals, and challenges to get support, accountability, and feedback from the group and guidance from us.
You’ll have opportunities to get a focus just on you and me as well as the rest of the group look over one of your goal or challenges to help help you leap forward in your creativity.

Private online group area to interact between Zoom calls

Any time you need some input or encouragement, you can turn to the private group on a daily basis to connect with other group members.

We’ve found that the private group work area is a powerful connecting tool to keep the conversation going between the weekly meetings.

This extends the benefits of the coaching group beyond the mastermind and workshop calls.

3D Scenes Asset Pack for Blender

You’ll receive a three scene pack where each scene is self contained with all of the assets. You’ll be able to load this into Blender and use these sets to explore composition in very different environments:-

• The city set
• The canyon set
• The mountain lakes set

*All artwork on this page created by Arthur Rosa.