Landscape

There were two parts to the landscape project: drawing and photo. The photo side of the project was much easier for me as I am very familiar and comfortable working in the darkroom. I can look at my print and know what I have to do to improve it or simply to get it exactly how I like it. This idea of "perfectionism" I have developed, while it may work with photo, it does not work for everything. When it came to drawing, I got frustrated when I could not translate the exact lines, shadow and composition I was seeing onto my paper. This struggle influenced the project heavily for me. My drawings are much more focused on certain objects that are closer to me, whereas my photos have a "bigger picture" sense about them. This created a very interesting composition of my book as on nearly every page I have a "smaller" drawing contrasting a "bigger" photo. My drawings are very line oriented whether the lines are fine or somewhat abstract.On the other hand, my photo's were much more detailed and had more to do with a larger focus and more interesting composition. When it came to making my book, I was very comfortable in what I wanted to do. I accomplished the cool cover I was looking for and I tried to contrast my photo with my drawings on almost every page. This project helped to show me two the different ways I can go about trying to "capture" a landscape. Now I can use this as a base for other projects similar to this one in the future.