The importance of composition

[alias_sqbr]

I was feeling a bit mopey and sick last night as I stayed at home watching Revolutionary Girl Utena instead of going to the Unisfa 30th. So once I was done watching, to cheer myself up I started drawing some fanart of the show.

It wasn't a fantastic drawing, but for something to do this morning I coloured it. Anyway, I was a having a look at it this afternoon, now I'm feeling a bit better, and made a few cosmetic changes, and was struck by what a difference cropping and rearranging can make.

Warning: it's an AU, but does kind of have spoilers for the show.



The name of the piece is "Happily Ever After", and it's a fairly obvious AU (if you've seen the show, and if you haven't you'll just have to watch it to find out :))





Spot the difference!

For the lazy: It's cropped, obviously, and I fixed the colouring issue with the hand (not sure how that happened!) But also I shifted over the window (thereby messing up my otherwise oh-so-perfect shading). I tried making the right hand curtain narrower but it didn't quite look right.

Anyway, would people agree it makes a big difference to the piece? There's a lot of other things I could fix, but I really don't care enough.

Comments

[callistra.livejournal.com]

What does AU mean?

[alias_sqbr]

A "What if...?": It diverges from canon (the main plot) to create an "alternate universe" where things go differently. Used mainly for fanfic but I don't know of a different word for fanart.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[alias_sqbr]

I will say, I'm a bit unclear on the difference between "Starts with canon and then diverges" (like all the "lets ignore the epilogue" harry Potter fanfics) and "Uses the same characters in a different setting" like "Lets imagine everyone from Harry Potter as an 18th century pirate". I'm pretty sure they're both sometimes called an "AU".