>>2879702the reasons it feels awkward is because there's not a lot of active space on the side he's looking towards, and because your eye is drawn towards the right by that white band of sand and because of left-to-right reading direction. so I wouldn't try to compose it to focus on that active gaze. I'm not really convinced this is a keeper, but you might try to emphasize the portrait of the dog by 1) close cropping to just his head or the abstract geometry by doing an intentionally weird crop (e.g. 2) crop upper left corner so his eye is on a RoT vertex, or 3) crop from the tip of his nose to the back of his neck but keep the full vertical, with that white band in the center, 4) go full retard and crop off his nose too, etc etc). 3) pic related, but I'm still pretty sure it's garbage
