"When you're designing a composition for a scene, a background, whatever it may be, you have to have reasons for why certain things might be as they are. Sometimes it really counts to put intricate planning into an image. it can help push an 'ok' picture to a 'my mind has been blown' picture..."

On Tuesday 24 November we ran a discussion about composition in the DAcademy chatroom (transcript can be found here [link] ) to tie in with our new monthly contest - details of which can be found at [link] .

Some useful links in relation to the discussion can be found here [link] [link] [link]

We hope that people found it useful and inspired them to try their hand at more interesting and daring compositions in their artwork Feel free to message us with your comments! Also note us with any other ideas of discussions you think would be of benefit

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This week we will start hosting the weekly contests at slightly different times to reflect the comments from our recent poll - hopefully these new times will suit people better

First contest: Friday 27 November - 8pm - 10pm PST
Second contest: Saturday 28 November - 10am -12 noon PST
Place: DAcademy Chatroom [link]
Hosting the event: DACAD-Events

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Important DACAD-Events Information

This is a [link] to the clock which DACAD-Events runs the weekly contests and monthly contests to. If you follow this clock, then you will be running on the same time as us.

For helping in converting Pacific Standard Time (PST) to your own timezone, please check out [link] . Thanks again to `pyros who offered us the link!