The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.