4 Nov 2017, 19:34

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Hey everyone, I’m Kali and am new to SVS.

I’m having trouble with this composition. I’ve done thumbnails but they’re each so similar to one another that I’m not sure I’m really getting it. I’ve done the exercises Will suggests in his creative composition video and worked along w him and Jake on their thumbnail prompts and felt really comfortable doing those but on this one I’m struggling. I think it has to do with the army of scattered geese involved... like how to treat the image as an overall interesting shape has got me. Also I feel it’s too stuffy. I realize it needs space so I’m trying to accomplish that.

Illustration backstory: My 82 year old grandma confessed that she takes a Nerf water gun to the Canadian geese overtaking her property, to clear them from the sidewalk when she needs to get to her car. I wannna create this image.

What I’d like: feedback and ideas on creating a great composition
I need to show a few things:

  • grandma with the watergun, shooting it or about to shoot it, as long as it conveys she uses the watergun to move ‘dem geese
  • Geese running out of Grandma’s way. I’m attached to the idea of showing somewhat anthropomorphized geese running afraid from grandma. I think it’d make her giggle.
  • that she’s on her property.

Thanks in advance!!
-Kali