Ah come on dude, you always say "I'm not an artist" but that's just not true. I'd say you're easily more of an artist than many I know that have degrees in the subject. Not only that, but since the advent of Dada and conceptualism, simply saying "I am an artist" makes it so. Not sure if the inverse applies. Lol.

Thank you.  I was just about to say the same thing.  That second image made me think of brown coffee pots and how good that effect would look.  Bagginsbill is technical with his renders but it doesn't mean that it's not art.  If Jackson Pollock can be an artist then Baggins can clearly be one even with the technical renders lol (at least I can tell what he's making a picture of). @Baggins

Using the same line of thought with the composition technique that you gave,  how would you apply it to say a 3D snake on a branch or even on the ground? Would those those 5 things come to mind?