This course blog is where we communicate as a group, share responses to assignments, and post our work. You are required to publish posts according to assignments found on Moodle, and are encouraged to share images, make comments, and pose public questions throughout the semester.
This image needs a bit more engagement with scale within the landscape. The soft sand in the foreground is actually a bit more distant from the camera, as indicated by the shrubs, and the tiger and figure feel dropped in rather than integrated. The mule in the middle ground feels a bit more naturalistic in its scale, as well as color, making it the most integrated element within the piece. Otherwise, the collaged and poster-ish nature of the image feels distracting for any other technical acuity. I don't mind the poster-ish sky, however—there's something satisfying about abstracting the sky of an otherwise realistic landscape in such a cartoonish way. But to make the cartoonish language effective, it should be juxtaposed with a realistic contrasting language. So, some scaling, color balancing, inclusion of shadows, and reorganizing the composition might do well to fold your element into the space more naturally.
This image needs a bit more engagement with scale within the landscape. The soft sand in the foreground is actually a bit more distant from the camera, as indicated by the shrubs, and the tiger and figure feel dropped in rather than integrated. The mule in the middle ground feels a bit more naturalistic in its scale, as well as color, making it the most integrated element within the piece. Otherwise, the collaged and poster-ish nature of the image feels distracting for any other technical acuity. I don't mind the poster-ish sky, however—there's something satisfying about abstracting the sky of an otherwise realistic landscape in such a cartoonish way. But to make the cartoonish language effective, it should be juxtaposed with a realistic contrasting language. So, some scaling, color balancing, inclusion of shadows, and reorganizing the composition might do well to fold your element into the space more naturally.
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