Depth

Today we had our seminar on what depth in an image can add to our illustrative practise:

What I think the importance of depth is:

• depth can make an image more insteresting, dynamic and fun to look at
• it can also create a sense of reality and structure, if thats what you want to use it for
• depth can add more layers to an image, and this is something I know I'm keen to see in my work, as I really enjoy pictures where the more you look at them, the more you see

We also learnt about line, as in the line of sight in a an image which I found really interesting as its something I've never really considered before.

What I think the importance of line is:

• line can be a great tool to guide your viewers eye exactly where you want it to go
• you can make them see the things you want to make prevalent and almost hide the things that aren't so important
• you can also use it to take your viewer on a journey, whether thats a really linear one from A-B, or a hectic one if you're portraying a fight or crowd, or anything in between

We were then asked to create a multi-layered image of a view from one of the windows in the college, and it had to show certain depth and line.

This was my end result with the mock up sketch just below it, I kept my crafting simple by just using ink, water and a brush. I think this is a style that I'm enjoying to make quicker work like this at the moment as you can create a lot of tone in a short amount of time. 

I separated my image into 3 layers, the background, midground and foreground, and had a large amount of information on all three. 

Successes: 

• I think my use of perspective e.g.the buildings in the back being tiny and the ones in the foreground taking up most of the image and being quite dark, helped to create an illusion of depth and also a sense of reality.
• This wasn't even my intention but due to the fact the roof was sloping downwards, it kind of created a line of sight from the left to the right, although I'm not sure what benefit this would have to the viewer to help them make sense of the image.
• From our previous composition sessions I've also tried to split this image into three as I think the rule of three imagery is something that I find really appealing in other peoples work so am trying to replicate it in mine, I think this has been done succesfully here.

Failings?

• I think in future I need to plan what my line of sight is going to be trying to say before I make the image and then structure the pieces of imagery around this as I'm now starting to realise that a succesful line of sight cant really happen on its own.
• I also hurriedly stuck it all onto a quick background and I'd have liked to think more carefully about this, maybe using texture?