I drew this still life of various objects from my room by first sketching out basic forms. I drew the objects on top of these basic forms and corrected them as I saw appropriate, using sighting and measuring techniques. Finally, as I decided that the forms were correct, I added cross-hatching to add dimension and inform the shape of the objects. I used vine charcoal and conte crayon for the basic shape and form of the objects, and finalized them with a graphite pencil.
This drawing was a still life that I drew during class. It is a drawing with charcoal and keeps proportion in mind as I made sure the sizes of each object were on point with one another. Basic shapes were used quite a bit especially on the bottles and the boot.
In this drawing the process of crosshatching and the emphasis of Negative space is used. Cross hatching is where lines are used to represent the shape of an object more, similar to Longitude and Latitude lines on a globe. Negative space is the gap between objects that create their own unique shapes.
In this piece I drew objects around my room emphasizing on their 3 dimensional shape as well as the 2 dimensional shapes created by the gaps between them.
The drawing shows a funnel, milk carton, book, and small ball resting in front of a draped curtain. To create this drawing, I covered the paper with vine charcoal. Then, I selectively erased to create the forms of the still life and used compressed charcoal and a white conte crayon to emphasize the lights and darks of the still-life. While this project mostly covers value, aspects basic forms and shapes are also present, as well as negative shapes.
A charcoal drawing of a still life in which I used negative and positive shapes and reductive value.
