Composition refers to the organization, arrangement, and combination of objects within the borders of a drawing space. For a great drawing, you want to bring the eyes of the viewer toward your center of interest within an aesthetically pleasing composition.
The idea that clockwise motion represents the forward motion of time so powerful that it's hard to look at such a watch or clock without having the slightly unsettling feeling that time is running backwards.
#12 Nir October 8, 2010. This is northern hemisphere chauvinism. All these heavenly bodies rotate and cycle in the same direction but that direction is anticlockwise only when considering the north as up. If the Aztecs had conquered Spain and not the other way around we all would have said that they rotate clockwise.