I'd like to share my recent photograph "First Leaves". I took this yesterday and it literally is the first leaves I've seen this spring. I'm looking forward to more!
Now wait... how is a photograph CG? Ah... well there's lots that can be said on that topic. Historically, photography is an ancestor to CG, as are painting and sketching. CG is an illustrative art form, and like photography "a picture is worth a thousand words." It's easy to look at CG and say that it is separate from other art forms, but really it's just a branch off of the main category. An important take away from that, is that skills learned for another art form (such as photography) translate well to CG.
When you think about the fundamental principles of photography (or any illustrative art), you're looking at things such as light balance, contrast, color balance and generally, scene composition. These same things apply to CG. In fact when working in Blender, you're working on a 3D scene. Even if all you're working on is a model, the environment you're modelling in is still referred to as a scene. So literally we're composing within a scene. That is, we're making a Scene Composition. Therefore, the elements of scene composition which apply to other art forms also apply to CG.
So, as the leaves are budding for the spring, my artistic expression is budding through practice in multiple art forms, because it all applies, and:
a picture is worth a thousand words.
What do I want to say?
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