Colored Candy

In this piece I attempted to put the most effort into value and realism due to the projects criteria. With the different spheres I wanted to see how realistic I could make them, in order to get more practice for the candy still life. I took a lot of time working with the spheres in order to make them as accurate and as detailed as possible with the different materials that I had on hand and available to me. The candy still life was a bit harder and more difficult to work with and get accurate, but for that I just attempted to use the ideas I had learned with the spheres. In the end I found the practice spheres actually quite enjoyable to draw, while the candy still life was a bit more difficult. I tried to shade as best I could using those ideas of value to make the piece as realistic as possible. I specifically chose a lollipop for the drawing because I wanted to choose something that had a spherical shape to make the process as simple and easy as possible when it came to the value and shading.

For the spheres I used a rang of materials, they included colored pencil, watercolor and pastel as well as a mix of colored pencil and pastel. I found that working with colored pencil was the easiest because I could make the sphere more detailed by working on smaller portions at a time, and water color to be the most difficult because I was constantly afraid that I would make an area too dark on accident. However, even with the fears that I had I still liked the way all of the spheres turned out including watercolor. For my candy still life I chose to use colored pencil and graphite, believing them to be the easiest to work with and the best tool to make the piece more difficult.

Most of the experimenting happened when working on the spheres, I tried to see how each material worked when using them with value. I typically started with the section farthest away from the light source (the darkest) and worked by way up from there,gradually changing the value as needed. I attempted to apply these things to the candy still life, and with each one of these projects my piece evolved from a 2d looking figure to one that looked more 3d and showed value/depth within the piece. My next steps could be just to practice this more in my own time as just a simple exercise that I would enjoy.