This week I was tasked with sketching a range of pieces from still life using different techniques in order to build up my observational drawing skill set. I initially found still life drawing challenging but as I progressed through the tasks I felt increasingly confident. I will continue to practise in order to be able to create accurate pieces of quality.
(A 3 hour study I did in my free time)
This first piece was one of my speed drawings which I spent 5 minutes on, trying to get down the basic shapes. As I am so used to drawing from photographs, being able to pick out shapes from a 3D perspective was challenging. There was no shading for this piece, just quick sketching. To improve this I think I need to work some more on perspective as some elements can look static and inaccurate.
I spent 8 minutes on the next piece shown above, further refining any shade and detail after I had sketched down the basic shapes and layout. Again, with this piece, I think perspective wise this is not accurate, especially when it comes to the controller. I added the PS4 controller for this task as I wanted to sketch its interesting shape to see if I could get the angle right.
This piece took around 20 minutes and I experimented with some looser mark making. I used a 4B pencil and quickly tried to express values of tone in a loose way whilst still being accurate with the objects themselves. I also experimented with line weight, making some lines look darker which made the object look sharper and pop out of the fabric behind. I think this piece helped me to quickly process tonal values. Next time, I should consider how the perspective and distance of the object will affect the shade.
This piece also took around 20 minutes and I wanted to switch it up and draw just a single object from life using the crosshatching technique which I had not done before. I think with some practise I would be able to better represent the 3D values using the crosshatching.
This gestural piece was done using loose crosshatching to show the shades. I like how these pieces turned out as I think the cross hatching technique really lends itself well to the form of the objects as I can accurately express hard and soft lines and shades. I would like to try a more detailed and accurate piece using finer crosshatching as I would like to further refine.
This piece was drawn with my left hand. It was very difficult to get the basic shapes of the objects accurately as my hand was unsteady. I tried to scribble in some basic details too.
This piece was fun to do because I had to keep looking at the items rather than paper so I couldn't see what I was drawing. This really loosened me up and, even though all the proportions and perspective are inaccurate, I enjoyed doing this task.
With this continuous line drawing I tried to capture the basic flow and shape of the objects. This was challenging as I was not able to take my pencil off the page.
This was an extra piece I did as part of the mark making section of this week's tasks. I wanted to experiment with line and weight combined with shading.
This piece took around 1 hour and 20 minutes to complete and I tried to refine and study the objects closely in order to capture more detail within my shading, using all the skills I had built up from other tasks. I decided to include a number of glass objects in this final composition as I liked how you could see the movement of the fabric refracted through. However, because I chose to use all glass objects, the piece looks busy and the objects somewhat blend into the background, as my shading does not reflect foreground objects and those which are further away well. I have tried to make the objects pop out too much and the piece has lost its accuracy. After feedback, I made sure to add some focus on line and weight within the drawing to make it pop out of the background as a lot of the shapes got lost. I also made an error when drawing the circular top of the wine glass.
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