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.
So I started drawing basic shapes after useing the shading. I essientially drew alot of my images with a penciled outline and then shading it to give it value. Once I had done this I went back through and made sure my objects were straight. I also went back and darkened shading in certain dark areas.
A charcoal drawing of a still life in which I used negative and positive shapes and reductive value.
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.
