Preconceptions.
Exercise 1.1: Preconceptions.
I wasn’t sure how to tackle this exercise. I’ve taken landscape shots all round the world ranging from mountains, plains, coastlines and populated areas. I have never really thought about what a landscape is, it has just been a landscape.
In my head I can see the landscapes I want to draw but I am useless at committing those images to paper. I imagine undulating stubble fields with straw wheels receding into the distance. I see a scene from Thailand with trees, a river and the mysterious far distance shrouded in mist. Can I draw them, can I hell. Both of the images were taken by me. The hay image last year and the Thailand image this year.
My submission is below.
It is a line of trees atop a slight rise that forms the horizon. The image is rectilinear and conventionally divided into horizontal thirds with clearly defined foreground and mid ground. The place of the more usual background is taken up by the foliage of the line of trees. The only animal feature in the landscape is my poorly drawn stag, which I have placed as near to the phi point as I could. Having it facing into the sketch give it more emphasis than its size would normally give it.
The image conveys a feeling of wildness that is none the less man made.
Why have I drawn this? It was an image I saw on Country File tonight and is just about the limit of my drawing abilities. The stag was my addition.
The landscape image is well named as it is how we generally look at the world. Our eyes are arranged in such a way that our vision to the side is far greater than our vision in the vertical plane. Thus we see the world in a rectalinear way. This does not restrict landscapes to this form only and the portrait view lends itself well to trees, waterfalls and the like.
I said in my introduction to my tutor that I know when I have taken a decent shot and see it in print or on the screen. What I want out of this course is to train my eye to see that image as it will appear before I have pressed the shutter. A tall order maybe but one worth pursuing.
Why have I drawn this? It was an image I saw on Country File tonight and is just about the limit of my drawing abilities. The stag was my addition.
The landscape image is well named as it is how we generally look at the world. Our eyes are arranged in such a way that our vision to the side is far greater than our vision in the vertical plane. Thus we see the world in a rectalinear way. This does not restrict landscapes to this form only and the portrait view lends itself well to trees, waterfalls and the like.
I said in my introduction to my tutor that I know when I have taken a decent shot and see it in print or on the screen. What I want out of this course is to train my eye to see that image as it will appear before I have pressed the shutter. A tall order maybe but one worth pursuing.
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