For this assignment, I drew a still life of objects brought in by classmates. The medium used was graphite pencils. For this assignment, I practiced drawing several objects that were set up in one central location in the classroom. After feeling comfortable having practiced drawing still lives, I then proceeded to choose a group of objects at a certain angle. The old phone and skull both drew my attention. They both relate to the past, one being obsolete to today's technology and the other being a skull to something that once lived. I had practiced with the old phone in my previous attempts and found that i had been really successful with drawing the old phone. The old phone had a wide range of values which really contributed to the overall detail of itself. I decided to do the skull because it drew my attention and also seemed like a challenge with its curves, values, and depth. The skull certainly took the longest. At first I tried drawing my still life which included the old phone, skull, saddle, horse shoe, and drapery in black and white based off of color. I found this to be rather difficult in distinguishing the wide variety of values. I then decided to take a picture of the desired angle and then converted the picture to black and white, making the values far more distinguishable. The most difficult of the objects to distinguish values was of the saddle which seemed as if it were one entire value but with closer examination it was not. The easiest of the objects to distinguish value was the horse shoe because it was essentially two values and a simple shape to draw so long as i added some depth and dimension into making it look three dimensional which I felt i did. I felt that drawing the drapery was the most difficult because i did not want it to blend with the rest of the picture and had trouble drawing the folds and wrinkles. I think that I should practice on the drapery. I felt that this was my best assignment yet.
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May 2015
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