It is about Reductive Value Drawing. make black paper by charcoal, and erase charcoal by eraser.
Tag: shadow
Still Life with Value
A charcoal drawing with dark and light shadows against a white background. This drawing demonstrates how light varies on objects depending on their shape and placement.
Still Life with Trash Items
This still life consisted of a hard block with a few items on top of them. The entire is covered with a white cover with the items on top of it. The items draw consisted of paper towel empty roll, crushed can, and a small white ball. The line is constructed and waved to show the image of the white cover. There are a shadow and light within the can and ball with the white sides and black charcoal. There is a shadow of the ball and paper towel on the right side of the white block. There is a small shell drawn on the downside of the block. The drawing value shading feels like it came from a dark room the drawing of a still life might need a few improvements with the light and shadow to make it a bit realistic.
Still Life with Basic Items
This is a Still Life where the whole background is the middle color with the charcoal. In this still life, we have a skull, a skeleton bone, and a wine bottle. There are a few waved lines that represented the white that is underneath the still life. The Skull has a small crack on top of the cranial area. The teeth of the skull almost look like the teeth of a cartoon character. The bone also looks like a dog bone. The back skull is shaded darker and the part that is next to the jaw. The still life might look a little better with a little touch of shadow and light from each item if the still life was at a different angle. Overall, the still life drawing has most of its features so far.
Drawing: Still Life
Materials:
Vinyl Charcoal
White Conte Crayon
Napkin ( smudging)
Drawing Paper Pad
White Charcoal
Vinyl Charcoal
Charcoal (2B)
Still life w/ Value
Process
The process and concepts of this drawing involves gesture drawing and Value shapes. Gesture drawing is drawing quickly multiple times so the average of the drawings equal the shape that I want to make, and value shapes requires using different colors and values from white to black to create the shape instead of relying on lines.
My process was really to focus on one area at a time and make the drawing and go back through again one area at a time and fix any proportion mistakes until I was ok with how it looked.