Let's look at composition. Some simple options but very powerful ones. One of the most commonly used concepts is what's called the rule of thirds. It's taken from a 14th, 15th century mathematical concept of the golden section or the golden mean. In modern times that's really been boiled down to you for most of us, a rule of thirds. So if this is our drawing space, essentially what we do is we divide, we can measure it or you forget used to it, you can use your eye, measure it into nine equal parts. So we've got one, two, three that way and one, two, three that way, hence the rule of thirds. If you want to measure it, you can use an eraser or five to it or you can use a method using compus and ellipses which is another way of doing it where you can extend the image area out. But for this simple demonstration, it's the rule of thirds that's very commonly used to help us make decisions around where things are in the picture, where we want the eye to be drawn to and so on. Where you can see the lines crossing over in this case, there are four of them. These are called the focal points and these crosshairs are where we would put or where we would place near to some of the interest, points of interest in our painting or our drawing. So this is the rule of thirds. It is extremely powerful. So if we were to think of an image that might be on this, then let's have a look at another sheet. Okay, so if we were to take our image area, I always tend to draw an image area within my sheet of paper even if I've got a large sheet of paper. So I've got an edge around for drawing doodles or little exercises or little triodes. I just keep writing notes in the margin here. Very, very helpful. But it also gives me a clear space within which to draw. The edge of the paper can be a bit anonymous, particularly if it's on a similar color background and it just helps you to frame it. So if we were to roughly put in our our ferrets, you should make me able to see this on the camera, I'm not too sure, but we see that. Then we can use one of the common ones would be perhaps a landscape or a still life. Let's choose still life. So if we were to use this line here and if we were to do a bottle on that line, for example, I would know that that is in a very good, strong location within the rectangle. It's to the left, it's on the line of the rule of third, one of them. And there's a focal point here and there's a focal point here. I know it could be that this is something that you want, such as a reflection perhaps of someone in the bottle or it could be that there's something particularly you want to be interested over there, it might not. And then we can use these horizontal lines as well to give us horizon lines. If we give a high one that feels as if the surface of the table, in this case is tipping up. If we have a low one, it makes the table sit back down, much the same way it'll landscape. So let's give it a high one. And let's do that edge quite hard and let's just take that. So just touch the top of the sheet of paper, the edge. And let's just take, let's say we've got a light source coming in from here so we would have a nice shape there. So what I'm doing here is as well as using the compositional tool. I'm starting to close off these shapes, which is really important. If you can close off a shape, then it gives it strength and vitality and it starts to fit together a bit like a cheek. So you're focusing on the rule of thirds, the lights coming down on that side. Okay, so what else could you, I might need to bring it along this line here because I've got two more focal points I can play with. So it may well be that we put a plate perhaps. So I just get rough or a ball perhaps, which may have some fruit in it. And again, this may be to do with the texture or the drama that I want to get it on this crosshair here. Or maybe that I want to just make it a bit off center just to make sure that I've got some of the benefit of the rule of thirds, what I call the scaffolding, which is these lines, which could across the sheet, including the closed off area of the image. And then I can start to play with other features that I'm mentioning. If we have the light, and we'd say that this is a very interesting shadow, is across this whole bottom area from the bottle and then from the bowl. And so I'm sorry, what you can see is that there is something quite interesting happening about the sense of balance and proportion. And you can use that in any image. Any idea can be landscape, landscape, can be me a portrait where you use these focal points here. So that gives you a very quick idea of how you can use the rule of thirds to help you make decisions about composition and design. Because a lot of the image making at this stage is about the design element. Once you've worked out what it is you're trying to make sure that you're actually paying. So there you go. There is the rule of thirds.