Sketch before you shoot...

I can't decide whether or not I am an artist. I mean, I'm very artistic when it comes to my camera and all the ideas floating in my head for shots and themes and shoots. But I can't draw/paint/create worth anything.

So when I read an article titled "Sketch before you Shoot" . . . I could've laughed the article right off the planet. Me? Sketch? Not a chance.

If, however, that same author had told me that I would then be sharing my sketches for the whole world to see? I would've committed him to a mental hospital.

But here I am. Two weeks later.

I sketched.
I shot.
I share.

(Pllleeease don't laugh at my stick people. You don't want to hurt their feelings. The might come eat you.)



And then the images I actually shot, based on those two sketches.



Yes, the pictures look much better than the stick people. But that's why I am a photographer, not a pen-and-pencil artist.