An example of some preliminary doodles.
These are facing pages from one of my sketch books. This book is a wonderful little hardbound, four and a half by six inches. A beautiful handmade book made for something better than these doodles, but I love carrying it around.
As you can see, the left page was the sketch for this one, and the right page was the idea for this one. About half of the time, I'll get an idea that translates almost directly from doodle to photo. In other words, there aren't a bunch of changes in angle and pose (although the photography and lighting is another thing altogether). The rest of the ideas come more slowly and with many revisions. I prefer the first way.
I'll usually have several ideas sketched out, then go back later and see what seems promising. As you can see ( I sometimes write the date I shoot an image, and usually also when I think of the idea), for some reason, I didn't do the orange shot until almost a month after the toilet roll shot- "Just One of Those Days". When I finally got around to making the orange hunter, he was one of my most popular images ever. I just never know what's going to work!
I wrote in black marker "another version further back in book" when I came up with this idea, several weeks later.
8 comments:
Damn you. Until now I was perfectly happy enjoying your new stuff (since being forwarded your blog on Valentine's Day).
But thanks to your flashback post here, now I have to go back and look at all your old stuff too.
Thanks for sharing your fun ideas. Your blog makes me smile.
This is great stuff. You try to include some of it in your book.
Also, if you change your comment provider, you can block people by ISP #s. Haloscan is one such animal. I saw in a previous comment section that you had wanted to block an anonymous poster. You can also set your options in here to moderated the comments so that you have control over what gets put on the post. For example, you could have read my post and then not allowed to be in your comment section.
Have a great St. Patrick's Day.
this is great I love behind the scenes stuff
Cool... yeah, I too love seeing how an idea like your Orange Hunter comes to fruition (get, it... "fruition"???)
Ahem.
I think these sketches would be a great addition to the book too... thanks for sharing!
This is great getting a look into the mind of Terry Border *I went blank there and almost called you Terry Bender - lol* I guess that would have worked too! Please do include this in your book!
Don't listen to Rattin Along, they sound like a trouble maker to me! If you do play God and decide whose comments get to stay or go, please let mine stay - please! I love it when you shout out a response to someone by name, not necessarily my name (although I do love it when you do) but any body's name.
On with the blather
I've got to agree Terry; it's neat to see where your work springs from. I think it's a great idea to carry along a sketch book; you never know when an idea will strike, and I know I've lost a lot of good ones (at least they seemed so at the time) for the lack of something to put them down on.
I think some of these sketches interspersed through the book would be a tremendous idea. I could see them as chapter headers, seperating different sections of images into groups of related works.
Not to detract or hijack but, On with the Blather, aren't you playing god with the invite only on your blog? How does one get an invite?
I also really enjoy seeing how your works come to life. It'd be awesome to have them scattered throughout the book/as chapter headings.
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