Final still life drawing

Essential Question: What are the necessary skills to create a convincing still-life drawing?

Purpose:

• To create a still-life drawing that demonstrates understanding of angles & ellipses in perspective, along with using a chosen and conscious mark-making technique to describe form;

• To understand value by creating a good range of values between black & white to help make the objects appear 3D;

• To demonstrate quality craftsmanship and good composition skills in a drawing.

Artists Studied: Henry Moore, Giorgio Morandi, Kerry James Marshall, Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, John Whalley

Reflection:

For this piece, I used a value technique called stippling, this technique consists of small dots more representing the shaded darker areas and fewer representing lighter highlighted areas. For this piece, I found inspiration from past students’ work we were shown. I did this because the artists we had studied didn't follow the stipulating format.

Other than the format I've used, I've noticed my work has become much neater and the values are much more defined and diverse throughout the piece. I've really learned how to show the different values accurately and neatly while keeping my stippling consistent.

To really bring a still life to well... The life I believe your piece needs to accurately show the size of the focal points in contrast to one another, as well as to show the value of each shadow and highlight through different levels of shading or in my case making the stippling thicker or thinner amounts of value, I also believe that someone needs to choose one art style and stick to it no matter what style it is you should complete the drawing with one consistent style whether it's stippling like me, hatching/cross-hatching, or others. To start I piece however I feel like finding an inspirational piece whether it's a famous artist or viewing other people's work in the style you choose and seeing how they did it. This helps keep your style consistent and helps figure out the different values your piece should have.

Pre Instructional Drawing