My Multimedia Blogging Project

Ok, so as part of the China Mojo class we're going to be doing a multimedia project on out personal blogs during, and after our trip to China next week. I was thinking about what I wanted to do for this project, and I decided that I wanted to keep it simple, and the first thought that came to mind was keeping a photographic record of the trip, which is cool and I'll definitely be taking lots of pictures but I didn't just want to do that, I feel like it doesn't suit me that well, especially since I'm no great, spectacular photographer.

Then I realized, that since I wanted to do something like a photo journal, and I was going to be bringing my sketchbook with me like I always do,

Here's an example of one of my sketches

(this, and some of my other work is up here)

that I could still do basically the same thing, but with drawings instead of just pictures. What I'm going to be doing for this project is making a series of sketches in a brand new sketchbook

there is nothing quite like a completely blank sketchbook

(photo by me)

just for this trip, and I'll be uploading them to this blog so everyone can see them. I really want to do a drawing on every sheet in this sketchbook (it has 80 sheets) but doing 80 drawings during my ten days running around China is a little unrealistic, so I'll also be doing some of these drawings from photographs I've taken when I return. I feel like it would be cool to show the photo and the drawing side by side in this case, so that's also something I'll be doing on this blog.