5 Composition Exercises to Make Your Drawings Work Better

Learn how to arrange the elements of an image, guide the viewer’s gaze, and create more balanced drawings with simple visual composition exercises. Sometimes an illustration falls short not because the drawing is poorly executed, but because its elements aren’t well organized. There may be too much information, a lack of focus, a lack of balance, a character that gets lost in the scene, or the viewer’s gaze that doesn’t know where to rest.