Monday, June 4, 2012


 In this project, I focused a lot on trying to capture the best perspective on a landscape, so that the viewer could really imagine what it would be like to stand where I was and view the scene with their own eyes. When I was drawing the landscape pictures with black ink, I focused on trying to use line and form to convey the feeling of the setting on paper. I found it to be harder than I thought it would be to get everything necessary into the image, but eventually I got the hang of it and I found that I actually really enjoyed it. I did have some trouble sometimes with remembering to draw the foreground first and then the background, so I sometimes ended up with an out-of-place line going through a tree which was supposed to be a part of the hill behind it. However, I usually found a way to incorporate it into the drawing and make it look intentional, which was a skill that I learned and was able to develop through this project. For the photographs, I liked the idea of a definitive foreground and background in an image, so I took pictures where the foreground and backgrounds contrasted nicely with each other. In the first photo of the book, the foreground is the plant growing out of the rock. I liked this because the plant is very slim and slender, but it still stands out because it is in front of everything else in the picture. In the second photo, I tried to contrast the two ends of a trail visible through the lens, although I don't think that this one was as successful as the first one. Overall, I really enjoyed this project and I learned a lot about the value of line and form in a landscape.  




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