Due to various complications and issues, I wasn't actually able to do the assignment normally which was to take pictures of people who meant something to you, and convey emotion. So instead I did the same but with objects that represent aspects of my life or things that are meaningful to me.
These are just a few of the latest of my huge collection of sketchbooks I've filled up throughout my life. I've been drawing since I was a baby, and started taking it seriously when I was 5 or 6. It's a huge part of my life and I spend almost all my free time drawing in some way, be it in a sketchbook, a digital program, with markers, etc. For the picture I really just took the sketchbooks I keep on my bedside table and stacked them up. I would have gotten more, but I could only stack so many without them falling over. Our house doesn't really have any good blank open areas to take pictures in, so I decided the place where my bed meets the wall would work well enough. I came across two real challenges. One: how to organise the sketchbooks in a way that would create two unique and interesting pictures. I think I managed to find something that worked for this, but it took some thinking. Two: Once I decided a good setup would be to have one sketchbook open, I had to figure out how I was going to do that without actually having the final product be able to see the drawings (since I value my privacy). I figured I could blur it just enough so that you couldn't really see what was going on but it would still look natural. In retrospect I probably should have used one of my older sketchbooks, since I have some really full pages with interesting layouts. This page here is just kind of boring. Oh well.