What do you think?
Thinking M.C.Escher, 2007:
No manual drawing per se, only original pictures and several layers and filters (including Vanishing Point)
HI Nikolai,
You asked for it. <smile>
I think it is a good start, but to stand on its own apart from Escher's works it needs something more from my viewpoint.
I would not call it highly original per se, but I am familiar with Escher's works. The most original variants I have seen were done with Legos:
http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/relativity.html
http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/belvedere.html
http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/ascending.html
http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/waterfall.html
But they are original for the media used, not for the final result.
Because of the way that Escher's 3-D tweaks work by manipulating the
null space of the 3-D to 2-D transformation I think they are important works for a photographer to understand from a compositional standpoint. The above linked Lego variations show the trick to make it work which can be instructive.
Other works from Escher are less critical in understanding photographic composition, but their transformational nature is still of value in thinking about design.
Back to the image. I do like extending the concept with photo-realism and I like the usage of a young and a mature hand which adds something extra.
Critically, the composition feels unbalanced to my eyes. I dislike how the stylus in the mature hand aligns with the wireframe arm. I also feel that more refinement of the wireframes to get a smoother more organic shape (less linear) along with aligning the younger arm with its wireframe might refine the vision further. I would also suggest exploring using a gradient on a layer mask to perhaps fade the wireframe arms into the background. Perhaps even fading them into a graph paper style background with the drawing on graph pager to extend the concept further.
Anyway, hopefully this give you some ideas on perhaps further refining the vision.
enjoy your day,
Sean
