Scratched it myself ;-) - 2
Greetings. I really got a kick out of producing my previous post Scratched it myself ;-), largely because I've never really developed any drawing skills (I marvel at my daughter's drawings). So, while attributing the outcome to the technique rather than any skill on my part, I thought maybe the last one was a fluke. So, I decided to try the technique on another image, a different kind of image to see how it would come out. What you see is the result on a landscape photograph of a Andy Goldsworthy construction (Andy Goldsworthy is a great artist who constructs his art only from available natural materials - rocks, leaves, sticks, mud, even ice. I got to see some of his work on my trip to France this summer).
One cool thing (for me at least) is that I think the technique exploits some part of the photographic eye and perhaps over time might be a tool, might help the photographic eye. My original approach was to draw lines about all high contrast "lines" in the image. I found myself summarizing groups of lines in areas with a few strokes and, perhaps, adjusting the concept of contrast in other areas to balance the resulting line drawing. It's this last bit that I think might express some of the photographic eye for composition.
And an even quicker sketch might be useful in analyzing a photographic composition. I was quite surprised with this current image how the 3D perspective elements in the original photograph still were apparent, even with the sparse lines.
Anyway, just some thoughts... Oh and a big thanks to Kerry for the scratch theme...
Cheers,
-Michael-
